Two oceans. A guide to marine life of South Africa

Two oceans covers over 1400 species of the most common forms of marine life that inhabit the coasts of South Africa, including the invertebrates, fish, reptiles, mammals birds and plants.
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Title: Two oceans
Subtitle: A guide to marine life of South Africa
Authors: George Branch; Margo Branch; Charles Griffiths; Lynnath Beckley
Publisher: Random House Struik
Imprint: Struik Nature
Cape Town, South Africa 2010
ISBN 9781770077720
Softcover, 17 x 25 cm, 432 pages, countless colour photographs

Description: Two oceans. A guide to marine life of South Africa

Exuberant in colour and bursting with life, Two Oceans captures the diversity of the rich marine life heritage of South Africa. For well over a decade this unrivalled field guide has enriched the lives of scientists, students, divers, beachcombers and underwater photographers. This expanded and revised edition encompasses an additional 522 species, 850 new photographs and the latest biological information, enabling the identification of 1900 species, from sponges to whales and seaweeds to mangroves.

Content: Two oceans. A guide to marine life of South Africa

Introduction
Classification system
Sponges
Cnidarians
Comb jellies
Anthozoans
Sea anemones
Zoanthids
Sea fans & soft-corals
Thorny corals & sea-pens
Hard corals
Jellyfish
Hydroids & bluebottles
Comb jellies
Worms & kin
Flatworms
Unsegmented worms
Segmented worms
Leeches & bnstleworms
Arthropods
Sea spiders, true spiders & insects
Crustaceans
Barnacles
Seed shrimps to tanaids
Isopods
Amphipods
Shrimps, krill, rock lobsters, prawns & mole crabs
Hermit crabs
True crabs
Bryozoans
Moss or lace animals
Lamp shells & molluscs
Tusk shells
Bivalves
Chitons
Sea-snails & limpets
Sea slugs & nudibranchs
Octopus, squid & cuttlefish
Echinoderms
Starfish or seastars
Feather-stars
Brittlestars
Sea urchins
Sea cucumbers
Sea squirts & kin
Fishes
Jawless fishes
Cartilaginous fishes
Sharks & rays
Bony fishes
Reptiles & birds
Turtles & snakes
Coastal birds
Mammals
Seals, otters & dugongs
Whales & dolphins
Seaweeds
Green algae
Brown algae
Red algae
Flowering plants
Monocotyledons
Dicotyledons
Glossary
References
Scientific index
General index
About the authors