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" 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.
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879327
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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.
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Ithaca [New York] :: Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press ;Clayton South VIC, Australia :: CSIRO Publishing,, 2016.
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, ©2016
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1 online resource (vii, 790 pages) :: illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
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0643109145
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0643109137
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0643109153
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1501705326
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9781501705328
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 750-755) and indexes.
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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.
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"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"--
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Rajiformes, Identification.
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Rajiformes, Pictorial works.
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Rays (Fishes), Identification.
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Rays (Fishes), Pictorial works.
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NATURE-- Animals-- Fish.
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Rajiformes.
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Rays (Fishes)
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Zoology-- Ichthyology Herpetology.
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597.3/5
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QL638.8.R392 2016
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Last, P. R.
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