THE LIVING MARINE RESOURCES OF THE WESTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC

THE LIVING MARINE RESOURCES OF THE WESTERN CENTRAL ATLANTIC. K. E. Carpenter (ed.). 2003 (dated 2002). FAO Species Identification Guide for Fishery Purposes and American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, Special Publication 5. ISSN 1020 6686. Nonmembers Price $120.00 (plus shipping and handling); Members Price $100.00 (plus shipping and handling). Available from ASIH Special Publications, Allen Marketing and Management, P.O. Box 1897, Lawrence, Kansas 66044. Fax: 785-843-1274. [email protected].—This long-awaited three-volume publication, covering the fishes and fishlike vertebrates, sea turtles, marine mammals, and major invertebrate groups in the Western Central Atlantic Ocean (FAO fishing area 31), is another in the series of FAO identification manuals for the world's oceans. The present manual, which encompasses the region east to 40° west longitude and south from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, to just below the mouth of the Amazon River (including the Gulf of Mexico [hereafter referred to as the GOM] and Caribbean...