Sharks, Skates, and Rays
Subtitle: The Biology of Elasmobranch Fishes
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: April 23, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9780801860485
Subjects: Animal physiology; Fishes (ichthyology); Science; Saltwater Fish - Individual Species; Nature; Nature/Ecology; Fish; Life Sciences - Biology - General; Science / Biology; Chondrichthyes
First sentence: 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.