Carpenter K.E., De Angelis N. The living marine resources of the Eastern Central Atlantic. Volume 4: Bony fishes part 2 (Perciformes to Tetradontiformes) and Sea turtles

Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2016. — 782 p.This multivolume field guide covers the species of in terest to fish eries of the major marine resource groups exploited in the Eastern Central Atlantic. The area of cover age includes FAO fishing area 34 and part of 47. The marine resource groups in cluded are bivalves, gastropods, chitons, cephalopods, stomatopods, shrimps, lobsters, crabs, hagfishes, sharks, batoid fishes, chimaeras, bony fishes and
seaturtles. The introductory chapter out lines the environmental, ecological, and biogeographical factors in fluencing the marine biota, and the basic components of the fish eries in the Eastern Central Atlantic. Within the field guide, the sections on the resource groups are arranged phylogenetically
according to higher taxonomic levels such as class, order, and family. Each resource group is in troduced by general remarks on the group, an illustrated section on technical terms and measure ments, and a key or guide to or dersorfamilies. Each family generally has an account sum marizing family diagnostic characters, biological and fisheries in formation, notes on similar familie occurring in the area, a key to species, a check list of species, and a short list of relevant literature.
Families that are less important to fish eries in clude an abbreviated family account and no detailed species in for mation. Species in the important families are treated in detail (ar rangedal phabet i cally by genus and species) and include the species name, frequent synonyms and names of similar species, an illustration, FAO common name(s), diagnostic characters, biology and fish eries in for ma tion, notes on geographical distribution, and a distri bution map. For less im portant species, abbreviated accounts are used. Generally, this in cludes the species name, FAO common name(s), an illus tration, a distribution map, and notes onbiology, fisheries, and distribution. Each volume concludes with its own in dex of scientific and common names.