Collections by the Exploratory Fishing Vessels Oregon, Silver Bay, Combat, and Pelican
Collections by the Exploratory Fishing Vessels Oregon, Silver Bay, Combat, and Pelican

Author: Harvey R. Bullis Jr.

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2018-02-27

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 9780656760701

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Excerpt from Collections by the Exploratory Fishing Vessels Oregon, Silver Bay, Combat, and Pelican: Made During 1956 to 1960 in the Southwestern North Atlantic Supervisory Fishery Biologists (general) Bureau of Commercial Fisheries Biological Laboratory Pascagoula, Miss. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota

Author: Darryl L. Felder

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 1405

ISBN-13: 1603442693

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This landmark scientific reference for scientists, researchers, and students of marine biology tackles the monumental task of taking a complete biodiversity inventory of the Gulf of Mexico with full biotic and biogeographic information. Presenting a comprehensive summary of knowledge of Gulf biota through 2004, the book includes seventy-seven chapters, which list more than fifteen thousand species in thirty-eight phyla or divisions and were written by 138 authors from seventy-one institutions in fourteen countries.This first volume of Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota, a multivolumed set edited by John W. Tunnell Jr., Darryl L. Felder, and Sylvia A. Earle, provides information on each species' habitat, biology, and geographic range, along with full references and a narrative introduction to the group, which opens each chapter.

History of Carcinology
History of Carcinology

Author: Frank Truesdale

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1993-06-01

Total Pages: 484

ISBN-13: 9789054101376

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The papers in this volume take several forms, from strict chronologies to detailed historical analyses. Topics covered include: towards the history of pre-Linnean carcinology in Brazil; the beginning of Portugese carcinology; from Oviedo to Rathbun; the development of brachturan crab tascononry in the Neotropics (1535-1937); studies on decapod crustaceans of the Pacific Coast of the United States and Canada; women's contributions to carcinology; reflections on crab research in North America since 1758; carcinology in classical Japanese work.

Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Volume 2
Fishes of the Gulf of Mexico, Volume 2

Author: John D. McEachran

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-09-15

Total Pages: 1026

ISBN-13: 0292778384

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This book is the second of two volumes that cover the entire fish fauna of the Gulf of Mexico. It includes the orders Scorpaeniformes, Perciformes, Pleuronectiformes, and Tetraodontiformes. Keys and descriptions are provided for the families, which are arranged phylogenetically, and for the species, which are arranged alphabetically, described (including distribution and life history), and distinguished from similar species. All but a few species are illustrated. The volume also includes a biogeographical synopsis of the fishes of the Gulf of Mexico.