Acknowledgments
Introduction
- Scope of the Book
- Physical and Biological Description of the Gulf of Mexico
  - Overview
  - Geological History of the Gulf of Mexico
  - Currents and Tides in the Gulf of Mexico
  - Freshwater Input and Sediment Patterns
  - Meteorology
  - Biological Assemblages
- History of Biological Exploration in the Gulf of Mexico
- How to Identify Fishes
  - Names of Fishes
  - Structural Anatomy of Fishes
  - Measurements and Counts
- Literature Cited
Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico
- Key to the Orders of Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico
- Myxiniformes
- Petromyzontiformes
- Chimaeriformes
- Orectolobiformes
- Lamniformes
- Carcharhiniformes
- Hexanchiformes
- Squaliformes
- Squatiniformes
- Torpediniformes
- Pristiformes
- Rajiformes
- Myliobatiformes
- Acipenseriformes
- Semionotiformes
- Elopiformes
- Albuliformes
- Notacanthiformes
- Anguilliformes
- Clupeiformes
- Siluriformes
- Osmeriformes
- Stomiiformes
- Ateleopodiformes
- Aulopiformes
- Myctophiformes
- Lampridiformes
- Polymixiiformes
- Ophidiiformes
- Gadiformes
- Batrachoidiformes
- Lophiiformes
- Mugiliformes
- Atheriniformes
- Cyprinodontiformes
- Beloniformes
- Stephanoberyciformes
- Beryciformes
- Zeiformes
- Gasterosteiformes
Glossary
References
Index of Scientific Names

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"This work is unique and especially important because it brings together, for the first time, information on the entire fish fauna of the Gulf of Mexico. Other volumes cover only subsets of Gulf fishes...This represents the most complete survey of the ichthyofauna of the Gulf of Mexico ever compiled." -- Philip A. Hastings, Research Scientist and Curator of Fishes and Invertebrates, University of Arizona

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John D. Mceachran is Professor in the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences at Texas A&M University.

Janice D. Fechhelm is a science teacher at Cypress Grove Intermediate School in College Station, Texas.

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