Atlas of Fishes in the National Nature Reserve for the Rare and Endemic Fishes in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River

"Atlas of Fishes in the National Nature Reserve for the Rare and Endemic Fishes in the Upper Reaches of the Yangtze River",This atlas embodies natural-color images and text descriptions of 153 fishes in the reserve. References of this astlas mainlyare some books, such as " Fauna Sinica" "The fishes of Sichuan, China" and "The fishes of yangtze River", also referring to a small amount of research papers. The text dexriptions include the name, morphology, ecology, and distribution of teh fishes. Morphological descriptions focused on teh exterior appearance such as the shape, color and location of teh body and organs. To Make the descriptions as accessible as possible, some professional terms were converted to popularization. The first draft of text descriptions was written by Li Lei and Xie Xiao, compiled by Dr. Wu Jinming.

1. Acipenseriformes

(1)Acipenseridae

(2) Polyodontidae

2. Cypriniformes

(1) Catostomidae

(2) Cobitidae

(3) Cobitinae

(4) Danioninae

(5) Homalopteridae

3. Siluriformes

(1) Siluridae

(2) Bagridae

(3) Amblycipitidae

(4) Sisoridae

4. Cyprinodontiformes

(1) Poeciliidae

(2) Belonidae

5. Synbranchiformes

(1) Synbranchidae

6. Percoidei

(1) Serranidae

(2) Gobiidae

(3) Channidae

(4) Eleotridae

(5) Beontiidae

(6)Mastacembelidae

7. Salmoniformes

(1)Salangidae