North Carolina Books

Abstract

Frank J. Schwartz, professor and curator of fishes at the University of North Carolina Institute of Marine Sciences at Morehead City, has distilled more than forty-five years’ worth of study into a handy guide to the ninety-one species of Sharks, Skates, and Rays of the Carolinas. The introduction discusses past, present, and future Elasmobranchs (primitive fishes with cartilaginous skeletons and five to seven pairs of gill slits not covered by an opercle) briefly but in impressive detail.