From wobbegongs (sharks like rumpled carpets) to spotted eagle rays,
Australia’s seas swarm with cartilagenous fish. Shark biologists Peter Last
and John Stevens’s massive Sharks and Rays of Australia (pp 483, US $95,
A $59.95) is from CSIRO, PO Box 89, E. Melbourne, Victoria 3002. Fax: (613)
0459. Tel: (613) 418 7217.
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