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its hit the CSIRO website!!! if anyone has ever tried to get their hands on edition 1 of this book - well you know the going rate is about $1000 and its as rare as hens teeth - well orders for the new and improved edition 2 are now being taken!!!!
http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/5960.htm
This long-awaited second edition of Sharks and Rays of Australia covers 323 species of sharks, rays and chimaerids, including species descriptions, full-colour illustrations, line illustrations and distribution maps.
This version includes 24 new species accounts, and updates more than 100 species which have now been formally named in publications. This edition presents the major changes to the systematics of some groups, such as the dogfishes and skates, and includes updated family keys, upgraded species distributional information and maps, extensively revised text descriptions, reflecting additional fisheries and biological information, revised introductory chapters reflecting the contemporary status of chondrichthyan information and an updated reference section
Peter R Last CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
John D Stevens CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Colour illustrations
640 pages, 302 x 225 mm
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
[red]Publication date: February 2009 [/red]
Hardback - ISBN: 9780643094574 - AU $120.00
you can pre-order the book now
cheers
http://www.publish.csiro.au/pid/5960.htm
This long-awaited second edition of Sharks and Rays of Australia covers 323 species of sharks, rays and chimaerids, including species descriptions, full-colour illustrations, line illustrations and distribution maps.
This version includes 24 new species accounts, and updates more than 100 species which have now been formally named in publications. This edition presents the major changes to the systematics of some groups, such as the dogfishes and skates, and includes updated family keys, upgraded species distributional information and maps, extensively revised text descriptions, reflecting additional fisheries and biological information, revised introductory chapters reflecting the contemporary status of chondrichthyan information and an updated reference section
Peter R Last CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
John D Stevens CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Colour illustrations
640 pages, 302 x 225 mm
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
[red]Publication date: February 2009 [/red]
Hardback - ISBN: 9780643094574 - AU $120.00
you can pre-order the book now
cheers