Excerpt from Two Oceans: A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa
Namibiana Buchdepot brings you an extract from Two Oceans: A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa by George and Margo Branch, Lynnath Beckley and Charles Griffiths. In the following passage, which constitutes the introduction, the authors provide us with a sense of how rich and diverse Southern Africa’s marine life is:
This new edition of Two Oceans is a complete revision that incorporates 522 additional species, updates biological information, distribution records and scientific names, and has benefited from the digital era, with more than half the photographs being replaced and improved. About 900 species of birds are found in southern Africa and more than 15 guidebooks are available to identify them. By contrast, there are over 12 000 described species of marine plants and animals in the region, but this is the only field guide currently available that can be used to identify species for the entire region across all major groups of this diverse biota. JH Day’s A guide to marine life of South African shores broke new ground when it was published in 1974, but it is no longer available. The living shores of southern Africa, first published in 1981 to communicate the exciting research done on marine life in the region, was not designed as a field guide. Two Oceans serves precisely this purpose: to allow the ready identification of the most common forms of marine life that inhabit our coasts – including invertebrates, fish, reptiles, birds, mammals, algae and flowering plants.
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- Two Oceans: A Guide to the Marine Life of Southern Africa by George and Margo Branch, Lynnath Beckley and Charles Griffiths
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