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Fishes of the Open Ocean : a Natural History and Illustrated Guide by Julian Pepperell is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Fishes of the Open Ocean : a Natural History and Illustrated Guide about?
Between the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the entire planet. Beautifully adapted to their world, they range from tiny drift fish and plankton-straining whale sharks to more streamlined predators such as tuna, marlin, sailfish, and wahoo. Fishes of the Open Ocean , from leading marine biologist and world authority on the subject Julian Pepperell, is the first book to comprehensively describe these fishes and explore the complex and often fragile world in which they live. In what will be the definitive book on the subject for years to comeand, with over three hundred color images, the most lavishly produced as wellPepperell details the environment and biology of every major species of fish that inhabits the open ocean, an expanse that covers 330 million cubic miles and is the largest aquatic habitat on the Earth. The first section of the book introduces the various evolutionary forms these fish have taken, as well as the ways in which specific species
Who reads Fishes of the Open Ocean : a Natural History and Illustrated Guide?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Julian Pepperell
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780226655390
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Stem
- Rating
- 4.8 / 5 (20 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14