Food and Agriculture Organization

The living marine resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic: Vol. 1: Introduction, crustaceans, chitons, and cephalopods - FAO species identification guide for fishery purposes Food and Agriculture Organization

This volume covers the species of interest to fisheries of the major marine resource groups exploited in the Eastern Central Atlantic. The marine resource groups included are bivalves, gastropods, chitons, cephalopods, stomatopods, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes and sea turtles. Within the field guide, the sections on the resource groups are arranged phylogenetically according to higher taxonomic levels such as class, order, and family.