Title Rays of the world / editors, Peter R. Last, William T. White, Marcelo R. de Carvalho, Bernard Séret, Matthias F.W. Stehmann, and Gavin J.P. Naylor ; colour illustrations, Lindsay Marshall.

Publication Info.	Ithaca [New York] : Comstock Publishing Associates, a division of Cornell University Press ; Clayton South VIC, Australia : CSIRO Publishing, 2016.
	©2016

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Description	1 online resource (vii, 790 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps
	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 750-755) and indexes.
Summary	"This book is the first complete pictorial atlas of the world's ray fauna. It also provides general identifying features and distributional information about this iconic, but surprisingly poorly known, group of fishes"-- Introduction.
Contents	Foreword -- Introduction -- Phylogeny and classification of rays -- Human interactions -- Ray conservation -- About this book -- Glossary -- Key to families of living rays -- Pristidae (Sawfishes) -- Rhinidae (Wedgefishes) -- Rhinobatidae (Guitarfishes) -- Glaucostegidae (Giant guitarfishes) -- Trygonorrhinidae (Banjo rays) -- Platyrhinidae (Fanrays) -- Zanobatidae (Panrays) -- Narcinidae (Numbfishes) -- Narkidae (Sleeper rays) -- Hypnidae (Coffin rays) -- Torpedinidae (Torpedo rays) -- Rajidae (Skates) -- Arhynchobatidae (Softnose skates) -- Gurgesiellidae (Pygmy skates) -- Anacanthobatidae (Legskates) -- Hexatrygonidae (Sixgill stingrays) -- Gymnuridae (Butterfly rays) -- Dasyatidae (Stingrays) -- Potamotryconidae (Neotropical stingrays) -- Urotrygonidae (Round rays) -- Plesiobatidae (Giant stingarees) -- Urolophidae (Stingarees) -- Myliobatidae (Eagle rays) -- Aetobatidae (Pelagic eagle rays) -- Rhinopteridae (Cownose rays) -- Mobulidae (Devilrays) -- Suggested reading -- Checklist of the world's rays.
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Subject	Rays (Fishes) -- Identification.
	Rays (Fishes)
Genre/Form	Field guides.
Subject	Rajiformes -- Identification.
	Rajiformes.
	Rays (Fishes) -- Pictorial works.
	Rajiformes -- Pictorial works.
Indexed Term	Australian
Genre/Form	Pictorial works.
	Electronic books.
	Illustrated works.
	Illustrated works.
Added Author	Last, P. R., editor.
Other Form:	Print version: 9781501705328 1501705326 (DLC) 2016017487 (OCoLC)946788098
ISBN	9780643109148 (electronic book)
	0643109145 (electronic book)
	9781501705328
	1501705326
	0643109137
	0643109153

Title Rays of the world / editors, Peter R. Last, William T. White, Marcelo R. de Carvalho, Bernard Séret, Matthias F.W. Stehmann, and Gavin J.P. Naylor ; colour illustrations, Lindsay Marshall.

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