Description |
383 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Contents note continued: Fire Corals -- Siphonophores -- Jellyfishes -- Box Jellyfishes -- Sea Anemones -- Tube Anemones -- Disc Anemones -- Other Harmful Cnidarians -- Bristle Worms -- Cone Snails -- Blue-ringed Octopuses -- Flamboyant Cuttlefishes -- Nudibranchs -- Crown-of-thoms Starfishes -- Sea Urchins -- Flower Urchins -- Fire Urchins -- Lobstersand Carbs -- Hermit Crabs -- Mantis Shrimps -- Passively Poisonous Inveriebrates -- Shelifish Poisoning -- Snall Poisoning -- Crab Poisoning -- Sea Cucumbers |
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Machine generated contents note: Fishes -- Venomous Fishes -- Stingrays -- Eet Catpshes -- Sea Catfihes -- Venomous Toadfishes -- Scorpionfishes -- Lionfishes -- Waspfishes -- Longfin Waspfishes -- Stontfishes -- Devilfishes -- Stingfishes -- Velvetfishes -- Orbicular Velvetfishes -- Queenfishes and Leadtherjackets -- Weevers -- Fangblennies -- Scats -- Rabbitfishes -- Traumatogenic Fishes -- Sharks -- Moray Eels -- Snake Eels -- Barracudas -- Triggerfishes -- Puffers -- Porcupinefishes -- Needlefishes -- Squirrelfishes -- Stargazers -- Surgeonfishes -- Giant Groupers -- Other Giant Fishes -- Electric Rays -- Electric Stargazers -- Passively Poisonous Fishes -- Tetrodotoxic Fishes -- Ciguatoxic Fishes -- Palytoxic Fishes and Clupeotoxism -- Scombtotoxic Fishes -- Hallucinogenic Fishes -- Gempylotoxic Fishes -- Crinotoxic Fishes -- Reptiles -- Sea Snakes -- Crocodiles -- Turtles -- Komodo Dragon -- Invertebrates -- Venomous Invertebrates -- Sponges -- Cnidarians -- Hydrozoans -- |
Summary |
Biology |
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Marine Life |
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Written by distinguished marine biologists and illustrated with incredible underwater photographs, this guide to the marine environment covers all forms of sealife. It describes jellyfish and corals, molluscs, crustacea, urochordates, fish, reptiles, seabirds and sea mammals. The book opens with a section on oceanography and marine biology which explains the complex and fascinating processes that created the oceans as we know them today. Part 1 covers the invertebrates. As they are a diverse group, typical regional invertebrate habitats are described which give an insight into the complex niches and relationships in which they exist. Part 2 covers the vertebrates. It opens with 48 plates illustrating the majority of species likely to be encountered on the oceans. In the fish plates, some species are illustrated for the first time. The seabirds, cetaceans, sea reptiles and sea mammals are also comprehensively illustrated. The plate section is followed by a systematic section on each group. The book should prove useful to the seafarer, and a valuable resource for anyone interested in the marine environment |
Notes |
Includes index |
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Originally published: Stuttgart : Franckh-Kosmos Verlags, 2007 |
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Translated from the German |
Subject |
Dangerous marine animals -- Identification.
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Dangerous marine animals -- Pictorial works.
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Dangerous marine animals.
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Genre/Form |
Illustrated works.
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Author |
Kirschner, Manuela.
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Myers, Robert F., 1953-
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ISBN |
9781408119075 (paperback) |
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