Language: Chinese with English summary and scientific nomenclature
This volume is the fourth part of Perciformes, which includes 184 species of fishes from Chinese coastal waters belonging to 72 genera, 17 families and 4 suborders: Zoarcoidei, Trachinoidei, Blennoidei, and Callionymoidei. This book gives the description, geographical distribution, and synonyms for each living fish that are known, or likely, to occur in Chinese waters. It also provides a means to identifying about 184 species. For those commercially important species, information on environment, ecology and capture has been added.