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Dangerous Fishes of the Eastern and Southern Arabian Peninsula

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Authors:
  1. Laith A. Jawad

    1. Manukau, New Zealand

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  • Provides a comprehensive guide to the dangerous fishes of the eastern and southern coasts of the Arabian Peninsula

  • Describes life, habitats, nature of dangerous fishes

  • Appeals to ichthyologists, coasts visitors, divers and general readers

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-11

  3. Erratum to: Dangerous Fishes of the Eastern and Southern Arabian Peninsula

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    Pages E1-E1

  4. Dangerous Fishes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13
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    2. Biting and Predator Fish Group

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      Pages 15-122

    3. Harmful Fish Group

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      Pages 123-141

    4. Electric Fishes

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      Pages 143-151

  5. Poisonous and Venomous Fishes

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      Pages 153-153
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    2. Poisonous Fishes

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      Pages 155-229

    3. Ichthyohemotoxic Fishes

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      Pages 231-232

    4. Venomous Fishes

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      Pages 233-307

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 309-322
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About this book

This book is devoted to the dangerous fishes found offshore the eastern and southern Arabian Peninsula. It covers information about the main groups of dangerous fish species i.e., biting and predator fish group, venomous stinging fish, electric shock fish, harmful stinging fish, and poisonous fish. In the latter group, the book gives details about fishes that cause several types of toxicities to human. The purpose of this book is to thoroughly introduce life, nature and methods of dangerous fishes in order to form awareness about their danger and to take the proper preventive steps. It will appeal to researchers, scholars, divers, the sea coast visitors and students of marine biology as it is highly informative and carefully presented. This book is the first of its kind for the Arabian region in particular and the Middle East in general.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Manukau, New Zealand

    Laith A. Jawad

About the author

Laith A. Jawad obtained a degree (M.Sc.) in fish taxonomy from the Zoology Department, University of Bristol, UK in 1980. He continued as fish taxonomist at Basrah University, Iraq, where he worked for more than 20 years before he immigrated to New Zealand in 1997. During this time, he started the biochemical taxonomy of fishes of Iraq and published over 300 scientific papers and book reviews in leading scientific journals. He is the author and co-author of several textbooks in biology published in Arabic. Recently, he contributed five chapters to a book about coastal fishes,” Coastal fishes, habitat, behavior and conservation”, published by Nova Publishers, Canada. He served as fish biodiversity and consultant at the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Oman for the period 2008-2012 during which he co-authored two papers describing a new fish species from the Omani waters and reported over 70 fish species as a new record to the Omani waters. He authored a guide to the fishes of the southern coasts of Oman, which will be published by the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries in Oman. He also published over 80 papers on fish fauna of Oman, Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Dangerous Fishes of the Eastern and Southern Arabian Peninsula

  • Authors: Laith A. Jawad

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57926-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-57924-5Published: 11 October 2017

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86284-2Published: 14 August 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-57926-9Published: 21 September 2017

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 322

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 219 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Marine & Freshwater Sciences

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