A scientific guide to all the fishes known to occur in the oceans around southern Africa. Diagnostic features, size and distribution are given for each of the 2 150 species described, of which over 1 500 are illustrated in full colour, making for easy identification. Anglers will find additional information on biology, habitat, capture and angling records for many commercial fish species. Introductory chapters discuss fish anatomy and biology, dangers of the sea, scientific nomenclature and the oceanography of the region.
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A scientific guide to all the fishes known to occur in the oceans around southern Africa. Diagnostic features, size and distribution are given for each of the 2 150 species described, of which over 1 500 are illustrated in full colour, making for easy identification. Anglers will find additional information on biology, habitat, capture and angling records for many commercial fish species. Introductory chapters discuss fish anatomy and biology, dangers of the sea, scientific nomenclature and the oceanography of the region.
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Very Good in a Very Good dust jacket; Hardcover; Dust jacket is lightly shelfworn and edgeworn, otherwise is clean and intact, and has not been price-clipped (Now fitted with a new, Brodart jacket protector); Light wear to the boards; Unblemished textblock edges; The endpapers and all text pages are clean and unmarked; The binding is excellent with a straight spine; This book will be shipped in a sturdy cardboard box with foam padding; Large Format (Quatro, 10.75"-11.75" tall); Heavy (7.4 lbs); Drawing illustration of fish to the dust jacket with title in black lettering over dark blue boards; 1986, Springer-Verlag Publishing; 1047 pages; "Smiths' Sea Fishes, " by Margaret M. Smith & Phillip C. Heemstra.