Dangerous marine animals
Subtitle: Mediterranean, Caribbean, Indo-Pacific
By: Matthias Bergbauer, Robert F. Myers, Manuela Kirschner
Contributors: Myers, Robert F., 1953-; Kirschner, Manuela
Publisher: A & C Black
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781408119075
Subjects: Dangerous marine animals; Identification
Work titles: Gefährliche Meerestiere
Description: This guide to the marine environment covers all forms of sealife. It describes colenterates, molluscs, crustacea, urochordates, fish, reptiles, seabirds, cetaceans 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. 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 provide information to anyone interested in the marine environment.
Notes: Translation. originally published in German as: Gefährliche Meerestiere : erkennen, richtig handeln, Notfallmanagment, by Kosmos, 2007.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Fishes. Venomous fishes; title: Traumatogenic fishes; title: Passively poisonous fishes; title: Reptiles; title: Invertebrates. Venomous invertebrates; title: Passively poisonous invertebrates.