| The author was personally involved in the field work and basic research
of the early lives of many of these freshwater species. Sally Gadd, a freelance
illustrator, in collaboration with Dr. Daniel J. Faber, carefully illustrated
these fresh water baby fish with a black pen on drawing paper; then Darin
Jay Faber, a graphic designer, digitized these drawings with a Macintosh
(TM) computer using the program Photoshop (TM). The original black and
white drawings are being stored away from light in a museum-type black
box. The illustrations of these larval fish from several lakes in Ontario
and Quebec, as shown in this Web site, were drawn with funds from the National
Museum of Natural Sciences, (now the Canadian Museum of Nature) Government
of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario. The actual specimens illustrated in this Web
site were lost during moving operations within the National Museum of Natural
Sciences. The common names, scientific names and describers of these freshwater
fish follow: W.B. Scott and E.J. Crossman, 1973, Freshwater Fishes
of Canada. Details
concerning the early life of these individual species were obtained from a variety
of sources and personal experiences. Much of the information in this Web site
was obtained from published and unpublished studies relating to these freshwater
species (Refs.1,
2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16,18, 20, 22, 25, 26, 37, and 41). |
