Diversity of Fishes , by Gene Helfman, BruceCollette, and Douglas Facey: BruceCollette is one of my ichthyological mentors so perhaps I am a bit biased but I regard this as the most comprehensive...
After being hired by the BCF in 1960, BruceCollette was asked by Giles Mead, then chair of the Editorial Board of Fishes of the Western North Atlantic...