About the Author

Henry B. Bigelow (1879-1967) was the founding director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute; William C. Schroeder (1895-1977) was widely considered the world's expert on skates, rays, and sharks; Bruce B. Collette is currently the senior scientist at the National Marine Fisheries Service's National Systematics Laboratory; Grace Klein-MacPhee is a research scientist at the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography.

Reviews

"I wrote in 1966, 'The usefulness of this text can hardly be overemphasized.' [The new edition is] an excellent revision and upgrading of Bigelow and coauthors' monumental work.... I'm sure they, too, would be proud." - W.B. Scott, co-author of The Atlantic Fishes of Canada