recommendations for books on marine animals

[buff]

Any cool books on marine life physiology I should check out?

I have a degree in physiology so something a little more technically oriented would be great.

Thanks
Mike

 

[shakeybrainsurgeon]

I use "SeaLife: A complete guide to the marine environment" edited by Geoffrey Walker, Smithsonian Institution Press. Lots of B&W diagrams, color plates, very dense in technical data. Covers oceanography and climate in addtion to vertebrate and invertebrate life, plankton, etc. About 500 pages, but only 6 x 8 inches and about 2 pounds... quite portable.

 

[vladimir]

This is an intro textbook "for lower level biology majors, nonmajors...". It might be too basic for you, but it's a good overview:

Animals without Backbones
by Ralph Morris Buchsbaum, John Pearse, Mildred Buchsbaum, Vicki Pearse, Mildred Buchsbaum
Textbook Paperback
ISBN: 0226078744
Pub. Date: March 1987
Series: New Plan Texts at the University of Chic