Successor to the classic work in shark studies, The Elasmobranch Fishes by John Franklin Daniel (first published 1922, revised 1928 and 1934), Sharks, Skates, and Rays provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of elasmobranch morphology. Coverage has been expanded from anatomy to include modern information on physiology and biochemistry. The new volume also provides equal treatment for skates and rays. The authors present general introductory material for the relative novice but also review the latest technical citations, making the book a valuable primary reference resource. More than 200 illustrations supplement the text.
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Sharks, Skates, and Rays is an important contribution to the literature on elasmobranch fishes. It successfully presents current reviews of many elasmobranch organ systems, and its equal treatment of batoids and sharks will be of great interest and value to all biologists in the field.
(David M. Koester, University of New England )The range and detail of information in this book will make it a valued library addition to students of anatomy and physiology as well as those specializing in ichthyology.
(R. H. Wettach Northeastern Naturalist )About the Author
William C. Hamlett is an associate professor of anatomy at Indiana University School of Medicine and an adjunct associate professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame.
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If you want a book on shark biology, this is the one,
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If you are a shark enthusiast, or a student in the biological sciences, this is an excellent book to own. The technical writings are excellent and you would not be able to find them elsewhere, unless your library carries elsamobranch periodicals.The technical writing is probably too much for the casual shark buff or even first year undergrads, and this is not meant as an introduction to the world of sharks. If you want to learn the "inner workings of sharks" and don't mind the price, this is a good reference book to own.
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Excellent, THE most comprehensive shark bio book I've seen.,
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Every elasmophile should have this in their library! It's incomparable to anything else out there. Truly an excellent work.
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The class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) is a major group of aquatic, gill-breathing, finned, fishlike jawed (gnathostome) vertebrates that includes the living elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) and the living holocephalans (chimaeras and elephant fishes), plus numerous extinct taxa extending back through more than 400 million years of geologic time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subocular ridges, anterior nasal flaps, afferent filament artery, internal gill openings, flat crushing plates, carcharhinoid sharks, clasper glans, gill raker papillae, dorsal caudal margin, medial prepelvic process, precaudal tail, preorbital wall, circumnarial grooves, caudal peduncle without lateral keels, free rear tips, strong subterminal notch, efferent filament artery, pectoral disk, preoral snout, valvular intestine, many batoids, nasoral grooves, parietal fossa, sand skate, second dorsal base Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, University Press, Sensory Biology, Brain Res, Cell Tissue Res, Fish Biol, Raven Press, Garcia Garrido, San Diego, University of California Press, Tissue Cell, University of Chicago Press, Urinary System, Brain Behav, Cell Biol, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Mar Biol, Van Noordcn New!
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The class Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fishes) is a major group of aquatic, gill-breathing, finned, fishlike jawed (gnathostome) vertebrates that includes the living elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) and the living holocephalans (chimaeras and elephant fishes), plus numerous extinct taxa extending back through more than 400 million years of geologic time. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
subocular ridges, anterior nasal flaps, afferent filament artery, internal gill openings, flat crushing plates, carcharhinoid sharks, clasper glans, gill raker papillae, dorsal caudal margin, medial prepelvic process, precaudal tail, preorbital wall, circumnarial grooves, caudal peduncle without lateral keels, free rear tips, strong subterminal notch, efferent filament artery, pectoral disk, preoral snout, valvular intestine, many batoids, nasoral grooves, parietal fossa, sand skate, second dorsal base Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Academic Press, University Press, Sensory Biology, Brain Res, Cell Tissue Res, Fish Biol, Raven Press, Garcia Garrido, San Diego, University of California Press, Tissue Cell, University of Chicago Press, Urinary System, Brain Behav, Cell Biol, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Mar Biol, Van Noordcn New!
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- The Pacific Ocean (New True Books) by Susan Heinrichs Gray on 7 pages
- FISH PHYSIOLOGY V6, Volume 6 by Author Unknown on 4 pages
- The Indian Ocean (New True Books) by Susan Heinrichs Gray on 4 pages
- The Atlantic Ocean (New True Books) by Susan Heinrichs Gray in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Muscular System (Flash Paks/Volumes 1 and 2) by Flash Anatomy on page 93, and page 115
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