Fishes of the open ocean : a natural history & illustrated guide
(2010)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
597.177/PEPPERELL,J
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PUBLISHED
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2010]
©2010
©2010
DESCRIPTION
266 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780226655390 (cloth : alk. paper), 0226655393 (cloth : alk. paper)
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Environment, biology and fisheries -- Why fishes of the open ocean? -- The oceanic web of life -- Form and function -- Interactions with humans -- Guide to the fishes -- Billfishes -- Tunas -- Mackerels -- Jacks/trevallies -- Other pelagic gamefishes -- Sharks and rays -- Other open-ocean fishes
"Fishes of the Open Ocean", from leading marine biologist and world authority on the subject Julian Pepperell, is the first book to comprehensively describe open-ocean fishes (pelagics) and explore the complex and often fragile world in which they live