The living marine resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic
This multivolume field guide cov ers the spe cies of in ter est to fish er ies of the ma jor ma rine re source groups ex ploited in the East ern Cen tral At lan tic. The area of cov er age in cludes FAO fish ing area 34 and part of 47. The ma rine re source groups in cluded are bi valves, gas tro pods, chi tons, cepha lo pods, stoma to pods, shrimps, lob sters, crabs, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes and sea tur tles. The in tro duc tory chap ter out lines the en vi ron men tal, eco log i cal, and biogeographical fac tors in flu enc ing the ma rine biota, and the ba sic com po nents of the fish er ies in the East ern Cen tral At lan tic. Within the field guide, the sec tions on the re source groups are ar ranged phylo gen eti cally ac cord ing to higher tax o nomic lev els such as class, or der, and fam ily. Each re source group is in tro duced by gen eral re marks on the group, an il lus trated sec tion on tech ni cal terms and mea sure ments, and a key or guide to or ders or fam i lies. Each fam ily gen er ally has an ac count sum ma riz ing fam ily di ag nos tic char ac ters, bi o log i cal and fish er ies in for ma tion, notes on sim i lar fam i lies oc cur ring in the area, a key to spe cies, a check list of spe cies, and a short list of rel e vant lit er a ture. Fam i lies that are less im por tant to fish er ies in clude an ab bre vi ated fam ily ac count and no de tailed spe cies in for ma tion. Spe cies in the im por tant fam i lies are treated in de tail (ar ranged al pha bet i cally by ge nus and spe cies) and in clude the spe cies name, fre quent syn onyms and names of sim i lar spe cies, an il lus tra tion, FAO com mon name(s), di ag nos tic char ac ters, bi ol ogy and fish er ies in for ma tion, notes on geo graph ical dis tri bu tion, and a dis tri bu tion map. For less im por tant spe cies, ab bre vi ated ac counts are used. Gen er ally, this in cludes the spe cies name, FAO com mon name(s), an il lus tra tion, a dis tri bu tion map, and notes on bi ol ogy, fish er ies, and dis tri bu tion. Each vol ume con cludes with its own in dex of sci en tific and com mon names.
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| Format: | Texto biblioteca |
| Language: | eng |
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Rome (Italy) FAO
2014
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| Subjects: | Marine resources, Fishery resources, Aquatic organisms, Ocean environment, Stomatopoda, Prawns and shrimps, Lobsters, Anomura, Crabs, Chitosan, Cephalopoda, Species, identification, nomenclature, animal morphology, taxonomy, |
| Online Access: | http://www.fao.org/3/a-i1358e.pdf |
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