BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

Wheeler, A. (Illust: Stebbing, P.), 1994

Field Key to the Shore Fishes of the British Isles

A handy guide to identifying the fish that are to be found in rock pools and between tide limits on our shores.

A reprint from Field Studies, it still retains the original page numbering.

Publisher Field Studies Council (FSC)
Pages 41
Coverage All the British species of this habitat known at the time.
Illustrations Numerous line drawings accompany the key.
Identify In the Hand (also useful to examine under a Stereo Microscope).
Specimen Prep. Live specimens in a clear glass seawater container, preferably anaesthetized with TMS (Tricane Methane Sulfonate - marketed as MS222) which causes less stress than handling the unanaesthetized fish.

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Taxonomic Scope

PISCES (fish) Identification Current Shore fish.

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