Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 7
4. Photographic credits 8
5. Foreword 9
6. Introduction 11
7. The evolution of fishes 18
8. Biology 22
9. Sharks and people 63
10. Key to orders and families of living sharks 89
11. Species accounts
12. Order Hexanchiformes: frilled and cow sharks 94
13. Order Echinorhiniformes: bramble sharks 102
14. Order Squaliformes: dogfish sharks 105
15. Order Pristiophoriformes: sawsharks 220
16. Order Squatiniformes: angelsharks 227
17. Order Heterodontiformes: bullhead sharks 247
18. Order Orectolobiformes: carpetsharks 258
19. Order Lamniformes: mackerel sharks 301
20. Order Carcharhiniformes: ground sharks 324
21. Appendices 580
22. Sources for the introduction 599
23. Further reading 600
24. Further identification guides 600
25. Scientific societies, research and conservation organisations 601
26. Online information 601
27. Index 602