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The Sharks Of North America
Castro, Jose I.; Peebles, Diane
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Description for The Sharks Of North America
Hardback. A complete reference to all the sharks inhabiting North American waters, with excellent colour illustrations of all the species. Num Pages: 640 pages, 269 line drawings, 292 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KB; PSPM; PSVW1; WNCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 286 x 226 x 47. Weight in Grams: 2578.
The Sharks of North America is a reference work that will serve as the standard work on sharks for the twenty-first century. This book covers the entire body of knowledge about each North American species, and dispels the numerous myths found in the scientific and popular literatures. The text covers all the 140 species known from North America, and includes a few extra-limital species from adjacent areas to complete the accounts of some families and to increase the area where this book can be used to identify sharks. Each species is illustrated with an anatomically correct, coloration-correct drawing, and outlines ... Read more
The Sharks of North America is a reference work that will serve as the standard work on sharks for the twenty-first century. This book covers the entire body of knowledge about each North American species, and dispels the numerous myths found in the scientific and popular literatures. The text covers all the 140 species known from North America, and includes a few extra-limital species from adjacent areas to complete the accounts of some families and to increase the area where this book can be used to identify sharks. Each species is illustrated with an anatomically correct, coloration-correct drawing, and outlines ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
640
Condition
New
Number of Pages
640
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195392944
SKU
V9780195392944
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-13
About Castro, Jose I.; Peebles, Diane
Jose I. Castro is a fisheries biologist with NOAA and a senior scientist at Mote Marine Laboratory. He received a B.S. from the University of Miami and a Ph.D. in Zoology from Clemson University. He is a shark specialist who has conducted research on different aspects of shark biology including their reproductive biology and their use of nursery areas, and ... Read more
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