General Note:
"Underwater naturalist: bulletin of the American Littoral Society. Special double issue, volume 19, number 4 and volume 20, number 1"--Title page verso.
Formatted Contents Note:
Foreword / Samuel H. Gruber -- Preface / Perry W. Gilbert -- Life history notes on Stewart Springer / George H. Burgess -- Life style of the sharks / Samuel H. Gruber -- The evolution and diversity of sharks / Leonard J.V. Compagno -- Shadows in time : a capsule history of sharks / Richard Lund -- Shark early life history : one reason sharks are vulnerable to overfishing / Steve Branstetter -- Anatomical features of sharks and their allies / Sanford Moss -- The unique role of two liver products in suiting sharks to their environment / Thomas B. Thorson -- The sensory world of sharks / Robert E. Hueter and Perry W. Gilbert -- Shark reproduction : parental investment and limited fisheries : an overview / Harold L. Pratt Jr. and José I. Castro -- From egg to placenta : placental reproduction in sharks / William C. Hamlett -- The reproductive biology of lamnoid sharks / R. Grant Gilmore -- Growth and aging : life history studies of the nurse shark / Jeffrey C. Carrier -- Instruments of natural selection : how important are sharks? / Wesley R. Strong Jr. -- Feeding biology of sharks / Brad Wetherbee -- The ravenous mako / Chuck Stillwell -- How deep do sharks go? Reflections on deep sea sharks / Eugenie Clark and Emory Kristof -- Home range of juvenile lemon sharks / John F. Morrissey -- Long distance movements of Atlantic sharks from the NMFS Cooperative Shark Tagging Program / J.G. Casey and N.E. Kohler -- The behavior of sharks : what have we learned? / Arthur A. Myrberg Jr. and Donald R. Nelson -- Shark attack and the international shark attack file / George H. Burgess -- Shark repellants : how effective, how needed? / Donald R. Nelson -- Uncovering the ages of sharks and its importance in fisheries management / Charles S. Pike III -- U.S. shark fishery management for the Atlantic Ocean / Thomas B. Hoff and José I. Castro -- The only good shark is a dead shark? / Samuel H. Gruber and Charles A. Manire.