Marine Fishes
An introduction to lampreys (from Berkeley), click on Petromyzontiformes. For an introduction to hagfishes, click on Myxini.
Visit the Agnathans web site
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Marine Fishes
“FishBase” is a collaborative web site where many individuals deposit a great deal of data about all of the world’s fishes, marine and freshwater.
Visit the FishBase web site
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Marine Tetrapods
The University of Michigan’s Museum of Zoology provides this comprehensive site for information on the marine iguana.
Visit the Animal Diversity Web web site
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Marine Tetrapods
CRC Reef Research Centre (Australia) provides this excellent overview on the biology of sea snakes and sea turtles.
Visit the CRC Reef Research Centre web site
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Marine Tetrapods
The Caribbean Conservation Corporation's excellent web resource for sea turtles information.
Visit the Caribbean Conservation Corporation web site
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Marine Tetrapods
This scientific society is the world’s premiere association of professional biologist’s who study marine mammals. Visit this site to learn about their membership, publications, meetings, and to gain career advice.
Visit the The Society for Marine Mammalogy web site
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Marine Tetrapods
Click here to visit the home page of Sirenian International, an organization dedicated to manatee & dugong research, education, and conservation through inter-cultural collaboration. They market themselves as “a partnership of scientists, students, educators, conservationists, and the public.”
Visit the Sirenian International web site
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Marine Tetrapods
This web site provides complete background information on species of whale, dolphin, and porpoise.
Visit the Cetacean Research & Rescue Unit web site
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Marine Tetrapods
The University of Michigan’s Museum of Zoology provides this comprehensive site for information on sea lions.
Visit the Animal Diversity Web web site
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Marine Tetrapods
“How Low Can You Go?” is a web site that pertains to the diving adaptations of porpoises, dolphins, and whales. It emphasizes the physiology of blubber, musculature, circulation, respiration, and the spermaceti organ of sperm whales.
Visit the How Low Can You Go? web site
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Vertebrate Sensory Capabilities
This web site, hosted by the University of Rhode Island, features a summary of “Animals and Sound in the Sea.” It is a useful augmentation of your studies of the Sensory Systems of Marine Vertebrates found in chapter 6 of your text.
Visit the Discovery of Sound in the Sea web site
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