Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Part 2, Sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates and rays, chimaeroids /

Fishes of the Western North Atlantic. Part 2, Sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates and rays, chimaeroids /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Bigelow, Henry Bryant, 1879-1967, author.
Imprint:	New Haven, Connecticut : The Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University Press, [2018?]
Description:	1 online resource (588 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language:	English
Series:	Sears Foundation for Marine Research. Memoir ; no. 1 Memoir (Sears Foundation for Marine Research) ; no. 1.
Subject:	Sawfishes -- Atlantic Ocean. Guitarfishes. Skates (Fishes) -- Atlantic Ocean. Rays (Fishes) -- Atlantic Ocean. Chimaeridae -- Atlantic Ocean. Marine fishes -- Atlantic Ocean. Chimaeridae. Guitarfishes. Marine fishes. Rays (Fishes) Sawfishes. Skates (Fishes) Atlantic Ocean.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13541468

Hidden Bibliographic Details
Varying Form of Title:	Sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates and rays, chimaeroids
Other authors / contributors:	Schroeder, William C. (William Charles), 1895- author.
ISBN:	9781933789255 1933789255 9781933789125 1933789123
Notes:	"Issued in paperback by the Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut ... Part Two first published in hardcover in 1953 by the Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Yale University." Includes bibliographical references and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	"Part Two in the Fishes of the Western North Atlantic series describes the sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates, rays, and chimaeroids that inhabit the waters adjacent to the eastern coastline of North and Central America and the northern portion of South America. Specialist authorships of its sections include detailed species descriptions with keys, life history and general habits, abundance, range, and relation to human activity, such as economic and sporting importance. The text is written for an audience of amateur and professional ichthyologists, sportsmen, and fishermen, based on new revisions, original research, and critical reviews of existing information. Species are illustrated by exceptional black and white line drawings, accompanied by distribution maps and tables of meristic data."--
Other form:	Print version: Fishes of the western North Atlantic. New Haven, Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale Univ., 1948- 9781933789217

Table of Contents:

1. Sawfishes, guitarfishes, skates and rays
2. Chimaeroids.