INDEX 



337 



nurse n7 , 145, 145; oil 157; pcrlo 145; 

 porbeagle 148; Port Jackson 13(3, NJ, 144; 

 requiem 152-158; sand 141, 146, 147; sand- 

 bar 156; seven-gilled 145; sharp-nosed 156, 

 157; six-gilled 64, 144; sleeper 160; soup-fin 

 157, n'; swell 146, 146: thresher 150-151, 

 151; tiger 137, 139, 140, 141, 153, 153, 319; 

 whale 34, 53, 66, 150, 150; white 36, 140, 

 148, 148; white-tipped 156; yellow 154, 155 



shark sucker 44 



sheepshead 244, 245, 256 



shell 120. 121-122, 124, 124 



shellfish 269 



shore 21-22; slater 113 



shrimp 23, 113, 116, 117 



sierra, Mexican 210 



silicon 4 



Siluridae 195-196 



silver fish 211 



siher king 181 



silversides 186, 202-203, 203 



singing fish 285 



Siphonophora 18, 99 



Sipunculida 1 1 1 



Sipuncuhis lOS 



Sirenia 314 



size, and danger 66; and refraction 56 



skate 136, 139, 165-167, 165, 172 



skipjack 198, 205, 210, 216 



sleeper 281 



slippery dick 255, 257, 257, 291, 291 



smell (see behavior 46-52) 48 



smelt 188-189, 189, 202 



smoothhound 152 



snail 18, 21, 22, 23, 48-49, 63, 120, 121-122 



snake, sea 63, 308-309, 309 



snakefish 190, 190 



snapper 22, 39, 235-238 



snook 223, 223 



soapfish, two-spined 232, 233 



Solaster 128 



soldier fish 207 



sole 45, 295, 297, 298-299, 299 



Solea 45 



Soniniosus 160 



spadefish 261 



Spanish flag 274 



Sparisoma 258-259 



Spartina 21 



spearfishes 65, 66, 211-213 



species 27, 30, 69, 73-74 



Sphenodon 303 



Spheroides 270, 271 



Sphyraena 204, 205, 205 



Sphyrna 158 



spicule 63, 90, 91, 91, 93 



spines 63-64, 136, 265 



Spondylus 123 



sponge 18, 21, 32, 39, 47, 63, 83, 90-93, 91, 92, 

 119 



sponge seaweed 79, 80 



spongin 90, 93 



spot 245, 250 



Sqitalus 159 



Squamata 308-309 



Squamipinnes 261-265 



Squatina 160-161 



squeteague 247-248, 248 



squid 18, 19, 20, 21, 43, 44, 48-49, 48, 63, 66, 

 123, 125-126, 318 



Sqiiilla 113, 117 



squirrel fish 7, 32, 64, 207 



starfish 17, 22, 47, 103, 122, 127, 128, 129, 130 



stargazer 21, 40, 44, 283, 284 



Stenopus 114, 117 



Slenorhynchus 45, 110, 117 



Slenolomus 243 



Stereolepis 227, 228 



stickleback, two-spined 200, 200 



stingaree 171, 171 



stonefish 272 



strobilation 96, 99 



Strom bus 121 



Stromeidae 221-222 



Strongylura 198 



sturgeon 72, 180, 180 



subarctic 15, 17 



subtropics 15, 15-16 



suckfish 282 



suctorian 88, 90 



support (see buoyancy and flotation) 2, 20 



surf fishes 251-252 



surgeonfish 265 



surmullet 207-208 



swell toad 271 



swim bladder 6, 18-19, 178 



swimmer's itch 63, 104 



swordfish 212-213, 321 



Sycon 47 



symbiosis 25, 37-39, 89, 91, 103, 117 



Sytnpliurus 299 



Synanceja 272 



Synentognathi 197-199 



Syngnalln'i.s 201 



Sy nodus 190 



taenioglossan 121 



Taeniotoca 252 



tambor 273 



tang 44, 255, 265 



taste (see behavior 46-52) 



tattler 223 



tarpon 22, 40, 65, 66, 181. 181-182 



Tarpon 181 



tautog 255, 256 



Tautoga 255 



Tautogolabrus 256 



taylor 219 



Tedania 91, 93 



teeth 64, 136, 137, 163 



Teleostei 180-302 



temperate seas 15, 16-17 



temperature 6, 8, 9, 14, 15-17, 23, 32 



tenpounder 182. 182-183 



Terebratulina 123 



Teredo 124 



territoriality 33 



Testudinata 302-308 



Tetraodon 266 



Thalassia 76, 129, 185 



Tlialassoma 257 



thermocline 9 



thornback 165 



threadfin 205-206, 206 



thread fish 219 



Thunnus 210 



tide 11-12 



tidepool 21 



tilefish 283 



toad 302 



toadfish 40, 43, 64, 65, 284-285, 285 



tomcod 293, 294 



tom tate 239, 240 



tonguefish 299, 299 



tope 157 



Torpedo 168 



totuava 248 



touch (see behavior 46-52) 



toxoglossan 121 



Trachinocephalus 190, 190 



