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Rays of the World
Gavin Naylor
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Description for Rays of the World
Hardback. Editor(s): Naylor, Gavin J. P.; De Carvalho, Marcelo R.; Last, Peter R.; Seret, Bernard; Stehmann, Matthias F. W.; White, William T. Num Pages: 832 pages. BIC Classification: WNCS1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 280 x 222 x 56. Weight in Grams: 3186.
Rays are among the largest fishes and evolved from sharklike ancestors nearly 200 million years ago. They share with sharks many life history traits: all species are carnivores or scavengers; all reproduce by internal fertilization; and all have similar morphological and anatomical characteristics, such as skeletons built of cartilage. Rays of the World is the first complete pictorial atlas of the world's ray fauna and includes information on many species only recently discovered by scientists while undertaking research for the book. It includes all 26 families and 633 valid named species of rays, but additional undescribed species exist for many ... Read more
Rays are among the largest fishes and evolved from sharklike ancestors nearly 200 million years ago. They share with sharks many life history traits: all species are carnivores or scavengers; all reproduce by internal fertilization; and all have similar morphological and anatomical characteristics, such as skeletons built of cartilage. Rays of the World is the first complete pictorial atlas of the world's ray fauna and includes information on many species only recently discovered by scientists while undertaking research for the book. It includes all 26 families and 633 valid named species of rays, but additional undescribed species exist for many ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
3185g
Number of Pages
832
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9781501705328
SKU
V9781501705328
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99-1
About Gavin Naylor
Peter R. Last is a Senior Principal Research Scientist with CSIRO National Research Collections, and former head of the Australian National Fish Collection, Hobart, Tasmania. William T. White is the senior curator of the CSIRO Australian National Fish Collection, Hobart. Marcelo R. de Carvalho is a professor in the Department of Zoology ... Read more
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