Below are some excellent sources of information about fish and aquariums. Your school library, your local library and your independent retailer also have educational materials to help students learn more about aquatic life.

Books on Aquariums

Axelrod, Dr. Herbert. Look & Learn, Basic Book of Aquariums. Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications. 1993

Bauman, Edward, The Essential Aquarium. New York: Crescent Books, 1991

Carrington, Dr. Neville. A Fishkeeper’s Guide to the Healthy Aquarium. Blacksburg, VA. Tetra Press. 1996

Cohen, Sylvan. Your First Aquarium. Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications. 1992

Mills, Dick. 101 Essential Tips: Aquarium Fish. NY, NY: DK Publishing Inc. 1996

Mills, Dick. A Fishkeeper’s Guide to the Tropical Aquarium. Blacksburg, VA: Tetra Press. 1990

Scheurmann, Ines. The New Aquarium Handbook. Hauppauge, NY: Barron’s Educational Series. 1986

Schliewen, Ulrich. Aquarium Fish: How to Care for Them, Feed Them and Understand Them. Hauppauge, NY. Barron’s Educational Series. 1998

Scott, Peter W. The Complete Aquarium: A Practical Guide to Building, Stocking and Maintaining Freshwater and Marine Aquariums. NY, NY: DK Publishing Inc., 1995.

Skomal, Gregory. An Owner’s Guide to Setting Up a Freshwater Aquarium. NY, NY: Simon & Schuster Macmillan. 1997

Books on Fish

Bond, Carl E. Biology of Fishes. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders Co., 1979

Burton, Maurice and Robert Burton. Encyclopedia of Fish. St. Louis: BPC Publishing, 1984

Evans, David, ed. The Physiology of Fishes. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 1993

Fichter, George S. and Edward C. Migdalski. The Fresh & Saltwater Fishes of the World. New York: Greenwich House, 1983

Herald, Earl Stannard. Fishes of North America. New York: Doubleday, 1972

Jordan, David Starr. The Genera of Fishes, and a Classification of Fishes. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1983

Lagler, Karl F., John E. Bardach and Robert R. Miller. Ichthyology. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1962

Marshall, N.B. The Life of Fishes. New York: Universe Books, 1973

Lawrence, Eleanor and Sue Harniess, An Instant Guide to Aquarium Fish. New York: Crescent Books, 1991

Meyer, Scott. The Proper Care of Marine Aquaria. Neptune City, NJ: T.F.H. Publications. 1992

Mills, Dick. Aquarium Fish: A Visual Guide to More Than 500 Marine and Freshwater Fish Varieties. NY, NY: DK Publishing Inc. 1993

Moyle, Peter B. and Joseph J. Cech, Jr. Fishes. An Introduction to Ichthyology. Second edition. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1988

Nelson, Joseph S. Fishes of the World. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1976

Nikolsky, G.V. The Ecology of Fishes. New Jersey: T.F.H. Publications, Inc. Ltd., 1978

Ommanney, F.D. The Fishes. New York: Time, Inc., 1984

Sakurai, Atzushi, Yohei Sakamoto, and Fumitoshi Mori. Aquarium Fish of the World. The Comprehensive Guide to 650 Species. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991

Thompson, Peter. Thompson’s Guide to Freshwater Fishes. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1985

Thurman, Harold. V. Introductory Oceanography. Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill Publishing Co., 1981

Wheeler, Alwyne. Fishes of the World. An Illustrated Dictionary. New York: Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc., 1975

Wootton, R.J. Fish Ecology. New York: Chapman & Hall, 1992

Magazines

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