I like the increased number of useful line drawings, the updated tabular count of valid species, up to 24,618 now, and the stated maximum size of largest family members. The Introduction to Fishes chapter is great. It’s neat to note that most fishes are more closely related to mammals than to (certain) other (sic) fish and that there are more recognized species of living fishes that all the other vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, birds & mammals) combined.

Here’s that promised quiz; are you ready? What are the eight largest families of fishes? No peeking.

1) Cyprinidae; minnows: the barbs, ’sharks’, danios, rasboras,

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