Notes

Paul Caiger.

199 pages :

colour illustrations.
Contents: What is a fish? -- Freshwater -- Tidal -- Reefs -- Sedimentary -- Pelagic -- Acknowledgements -- Further reading.
Summary: With a long and complex coastline scattered with countless islands, and freshwater waterways weaving all through our rugged landscape, Aotearoa really is an aquatic nation. As such, it is home to a bounty of colourful and characterful fishes. Fishes of Aotearoa is a major celebration of this fish life, set to the backdrop of all our primary underwater habitats, from freshwater rivers, lakes and wetlands, tidal environments, rocky reefs, the softer sedimentary habitat of sand and silt, and then further out, the pelagic zone of the deeper ocean. (Publisher)