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Contents Acknowledgments 000 Introduction About the Book 000 Basic Shark Anatomy 000 Basic Skate and Ray Anatomy 000 How to Use This Book 000 The First Step in Identification: Is It a Shark, a Skate, or a Ray? 000 The Gulf of Mexico 000 Major Features and Habitats 000 The Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico The Sharks Sharks: A Personal View 000 Sharks: Fact and Fiction 000 Shark Biology: Stranger than Fiction? 000 Feeding 000 Reproduction 000 Shark Sensory Systems 000 Shark Attack 000 Simple Rules to Help Prevent Shark Attack Shark Conservation 000 Shark Fishing and Fisheries 000 Shark Fisheries 000 How to Safely Catch, Handle, and Release a Shark 000 The Skates and Rays Skate and Ray Biology 000 Feeding 000 Reproduction 000 Defense 000 Behavior 000 Stingray Wounds: How to Prevent and Treat Them 000 Skate and Ray Conservation 000 Shark Identification 000 Key to the Families of Sharks of the Gulf of Mexico 000 Requiem or Gray Sharks, Family Carcharhinidae 000 Hammerhead Sharks, Family Sphyrnidae 000 Six- and Seven-Gill Sharks, Family Hexanchidae 000 Angel Sharks, Family Squatinidae 000 Thresher Sharks, Family Alopiidae 000 Mackerel Sharks, Family Lamnidae 000 Dogfish Sharks, Family Squalidae 000 Sand Tiger Sharks, Family Odontaspididae 000 Whale Sharks, Family Rhincodontidae 000 Smoothound Sharks, Family Triakidae 000 Nurse Sharks, Family Ginglymostomatidae 000 Basking Shark, Family Cetorhinidae 000 Catsharks, Family Scyliorhinidae 000 Goblin Shark, Family Mitsukurinidae 000 Skate and Ray Identification 000 Key to the Families of Skates and Rays of the Gulf of Mexico 000 Sawfishes, Family Pristidae 000 Guitarfish, Family Rhinobatidae 000 Electric Rays, Families Torpedinidae and Narcinidae 000 Round Stingrays, Family Urolophidae 000 Stingrays, Family Dasyatidae 000 Butterfly Rays, Family Gymnuridae 000 Skates, Family Rajidae 000 Eagle Rays, Family Myliobatidae 000 Cownosed Rays, Family Rhinopteridae 000 Manta and Devil Rays, Family Mobulidae 000 Index 000
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Sharks -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Identification.
Skates (Fishes) -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Identification.
Rays (Fishes) -- Mexico, Gulf of -- Identification.