The Shark Handbook: The Essential Guide for Understanding the Sharks of the WorldGreg Skomal is one of the world’s leading shark experts: many thousands of viewers know him as the “Shark Guy” on Discovery Channel and he’s affiliated with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. So if you’re dreaming of swimming with sharks, there’s no one better to take you—and that’s exactly what he does in this comprehensive, stunning field guide. In addition to an awesome gatefold poster of a Great White (with all its distinguishing features shown in detail), plus amazing original images from Skomal and award-winning National Geographic photographer Nick Caloyianis, it contains a complete listing of every known shark in existence as well as some extinct species. Learn about sharks from their birth to death, their anatomy, how to distinguish one shark from the next, how their teeth are developed, how they hunt and attack, and their importance and purpose within our eco system. |
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Apristurus Asymbolus Atlantic Bambooshark basking sharks Behavior blue shark bony fishes bull sharks Bullhead Shark Bythaelurus Carpetshark Catshark Apristurus Catshark Galeus Centrophorus Centroscyllium Cephaloscyllium Chiloscyllium coastal waters Continental and island Cookiecutter Shark coral deepwater Distribution dorsal fin Feeding feet female fishes and invertebrates gills grey reef shark Gulper Shark Habitat Halaelurus Hammerhead Hemiscyllium Heterodontus Houndshark island shelves IUCN Red List Japanese japonicus Lanternshark Etmopterus Largely unknown Longnose mako male mouth Mustelus Number of Species Nurse Shark ocean Ovoviviparous Oxynotus Parascyllium Parmaturus percent Population Status porbeagle Prey includes pups Reproduction Rhizoprionodon Roughshark sandbar shark Sandtiger Sawshark Sawtail Catshark Scyliorhinus shark attacks Shark Carcharhinus SHARK CHARACTERISTICS SHARK HANDBOOK shark species Sharpnose Shark shelves and slopes Sicklefin Sleeper Shark Smalleye Smoothhound snout Somniosus species of sharks Sphyrna Spurdog Squalus Swellshark swim tagging teeth temperate waters thresher sharks tiger shark Triakis TYPES OF SHARKS Weasel Shark whale white shark Wobbegong Worldwide in tropical