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Title Rays of the world / editors, Peter R. Last, William T. White, Marcelo R. de Carvalho, Bernard Séret, Matthias F.W. Stehmann, and Gavin J.P. Naylor ; colour illustrations, Lindsay Marshall
Published Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press ; Clayton South VIC, Australia : CSIRO Publishing, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (vii, 790 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
Contents Foreword -- Introduction -- Phylogeny and classification of rays -- Human interactions -- Ray conservation -- About this book -- Glossary -- Key to families of living rays -- Pristidae (Sawfishes) -- Rhinidae (Wedgefishes) -- Rhinobatidae (Guitarfishes) -- Glaucostegidae (Giant guitarfishes) -- Trygonorrhinidae (Banjo rays) -- Platyrhinidae (Fanrays) -- Zanobatidae (Panrays) -- Narcinidae (Numbfishes) -- Narkidae (Sleeper rays) -- Hypnidae (Coffin rays) -- Torpedinidae (Torpedo rays) -- Rajidae (Skates) -- Arhynchobatidae (Softnose skates) -- Gurgesiellidae (Pygmy skates) -- Anacanthobatidae (Legskates) -- Hexatrygonidae (Sixgill stingrays) -- Gymnuridae (Butterfly rays) -- Dasyatidae (Stingrays) -- Potamotryconidae (Neotropical stingrays) -- Urotrygonidae (Round rays) -- Plesiobatidae (Giant stingarees) -- Urolophidae (Stingarees) -- Myliobatidae (Eagle rays) -- Aetobatidae (Pelagic eagle rays) -- Rhinopteridae (Cownose rays) -- Mobulidae (Devilrays) -- Suggested reading -- Checklist of the world's rays
Summary "This book is the first complete pictorial atlas of the world's ray fauna. It also provides general identifying features and distributional information about this iconic, but surprisingly poorly known, group of fishes"-- Introduction
Analysis Australian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 750-755) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Rays (Fishes) -- Identification
Rajiformes -- Identification
Rays (Fishes) -- Pictorial works
Rajiformes -- Pictorial works
Fishes (ichthyology)
NATURE -- Animals -- Fish.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Zoology -- Ichthyology & Herpetology.
Rajiformes
Rays (Fishes)
Zoology: fishes (ichthyology)
Marine biology.
Genre/Form Field guides
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
Author Last, P. R., editor
ISBN 9780643109148
0643109145
9780643109155
0643109153