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sawshark 323 Sea of Cortez see Gulf of seal cont. serpent star 309 shocked quartz 116
longnose 326 California harbor see seal, common Sesostris Bank 449 shore bristletail 304
Saya de Malha Bank 455 Sea of Japan/East Sea 150, 460, harp 404 seven arm starfish 308 shore rockling 349
scales, fish 336 461 Kurile Harbor 460 Severnaya Zemlya 422, 425 short-snouted seahorse 356
scallop Sea of Marmara 439 leopard 405 Seward Peninsula 424, 458 short-tailed albatross 386
great 280 Sea of Okhotsk 460, 461 Mediterranean monk 404 Sewell Rise 450 short-tailed shearwater 389
queen 140 sea otter 151, 401, 402 New Zealand fur 123 Seychelles 422, 446, 455 shrimp
scalloped hammerhead shark 332 sea oxeye 127 Northern fur 403 Seychelles Bank 446, 454, 455 anemone 12–13, 296
Scandinavian Ice Sheet 46 sea palm 238 ringed 404 Shackleton Coast 485 banded coral 217
Scarba 81 sea pen 144 South American fur 403 Shackleton Fracture Zone 444 giant mussel 295
scatterometer 54, 187 orange 266 Weddell 199, 222, 405 shad, allis 344 harlequin, molting 291
scavengers, deep-sea 182, 223 slender 266 seal hunting 426 Shakal, Ras 448 peacock mantis 295
scavenging, herring gull 396 sea pink 250 Sealark Fracture Zone 447, 455 Shandong Bandai 464 rift 189
Schistidium maritimum 249 sea potato 311 seals, anatomy and physiology 400 Shantarskiye Ostrova 461 sea-star 308
Schoppe Ridge 459 sea rocket 242 seamounts 174–75 Sharbithat, Ras 449 spotted cleaner 290
Scilly Isles, influence of North sea skaters 30 at divergent plate boundaries 48 shark tozeuma 149
Atlantic Drift 63 sea slater 295 Bermuda Platform 156 basking 170, 328 shrimp farming 131, 465
Scilly, Isles of 432, 437 sea slug biodiversity 211 blue 332 shuga 198
sclerites 260 chromodorid 286 Emperor, Hawaii 468 bluntnose sixgill 325 Shumagin Islands 459
Scomber scombrus 365 hermissenda 286 Gulf of Alaska 459 caribbean Reef 229 Shuyak Island 459
Scomberesox saurus 352 sea slugs 22–23, 247, 277 Pacific Ocean 467 cookie cutter 326 Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve
Scorpaena plumieri 358 sea smoke 59 seas, epicontinental 45 copper 213 132
scorpionfish 216 sea snakes 368–69 seaside moss 249 frilled 325 Siberia Seamount 461
spotted 358 beaked 374 seasnail, violet 214, 256 goblin 329 Siberian Ice Sheet 46
Scotia Arc 445 leaf-scaled 375 seawater gray nurse see shark, sand tiger Siboglinum ekmani 315
Scotia Plate 423, 444, 445 olive 375 chemistry 32–33 gray reef 229 Sicily 438
Scotia Sea 423, 429, 444, 445, turtle-headed 375 density 35 Greenland 326 Sicily, Strait of 438
482, 484 yellow-bellied 374 freezing point 198 hammerhead 322–23 Sierra Leone Basin 423, 429,
Scott Canyon 485 sea sparkle 236 effect of salinity 35 lemon 323 443
Scott Coast 485 sea spider, giant 293 gases 33 megamouth 328 Sierra Leone Rise 442
Scott Island 485 sea spiders 292 ions 32 Pacific angel 326 Sigsbee Escarpment 440
Scott Seamounts 485 sea squirt nutrients 33 Port Jackson 327 Sigsbee Plain 440
Scott, Cape 459 colonial 319 pressure 35 ragged tooth see shark, sand silica 181
scour, sand 143 common 318 salinity 35 tiger hydrothermal vents 188
scrawled filefish 366 star 319 temperature 34 sand tiger 328 in sponges 258
scrimshaw 401 sea stack 93 seaweed scalloped hammerhead 332 siliceous ooze 181
scurvy-grass 252 Marinha Beach 97 Cotton’s 245 sharpnose sevengill 325 silt 180
Scyliorhinus retifer 329 Twelve Apostles 20, 99 flaccid green 246 tawny nurse 327 Alaskan mudflats 129
sea anemones, anatomy 260 sea stars 306 spectacular 245 tiger 332 River Plate estuary 118
sea apple 312 sea strawberry 108 seaweed zone 142 whale 256, 328 Yangtze Estuary 122
sea arch 92 sea tulip 319 seaweeds white 329, 330–31 see also sediment
sea bamboo 148 sea urchin brown 238–39 whitetip reef 332 Silurian, ocean life 227
sea beech 244 edible 310 green 243, 246 zebra 327 Simpson Peninsula 424, 426
seabed long-spined 310 anatomy 246 Shark Bay 451 Sines, Cabo de 437
rocky 142–43 purple 310 habitat 246 Shark Bay, Western Australia 111, Singapore Harbor 92
sandy 144–45 sea urchins 142, 306, 310–311 harvesting 151, 235 150 sink
sea birds control by sea otter 151 see also agar gel; alginate sharks carbon 33, 67
anatomy 378 sea walls 105 extraction anatomy 322 ion 32
breeding 380 sea whip, white 265 red 244–245 attacks on humans 110, 329 sinkhole, Great Blue Hole 157
classification 380 sea-ice 31, 198–99, 430, 445 anatomy 244 classification 323 Siphonaria compressa 148
feeding 379 Arctic Ocean 63 distribution 244 conservation 322 Siple Coast 485
habitat 378 Atlantic Conveyor 63 habitat 244 hunting senses 323 Siqueiros Fracture Zone 478
migration 380 cycle 65 sea beech 244 reproduction 323 Sir Edward Pellew Group 472
threat from fishing 379 Greenland Sea 427 secondary consumers 212 sharpnose sevengill shark 325 sirenians 400–401
sea bristletail 304 Northwestern Pacific 460 sediment Shatskiy Rise 456, 461 early 228
sea butterfly see three-tooth satellite monitoring 187 biogenic 180, 181 Shcherbakov Seamount 451 Sirius Bank 442
cavoline Southern Ocean 482 Black Sea 439 shearwater Sirte Rise 439
sea cave 93 sea-level continental rise 177 great 389 Sirte, Gulf of 439
sea color 37 change 45, 88–89 continental shelf 144–45 short-tailed 389 Sivuchiy, Mys 458
sea cow see manatee Acadia National Park 94 continental slope 176 wedge-tailed, migration 389 Sjaelland 433
sea cow, Steller’s 419 Big Sur 103 deep-sea 180 sheathbill, snowy 394 Skagerrak 432, 433
sea cucumber 144, 181, 223, 306, geological past 89 deposition, Nile Delta 97 shelduck, common 381 phytoplankton bloom 33
312 Gruinard Bay 96 Humber Estuary 119 shelf skate, common 333
sea daisies 306 rise mangrove swamps 133, 134 continental 140–41 skater, marine 292, 304
sea eagle, white-bellied 393 Bangladesh 91 mixed 144 geology 141 skates 323
sea fan global warming 91 ocean floor 180–81 shelf break 176 Skeleton Coast 98, 100–101, 443
common 265 Pacific islands 91 terrigenous 180 Shelikhova Zaliv 461 Skiathos Island 439
purple 156 southeastern USA 91 Tigris Euphrates Delta 99 Shelikof Strait 459 skimmer, black 398
sea goldie 152–53, 358 see also tides see also mud; sand; silt Shell Beach, Shark Bay 111 Skjerstadfiord 81
sea grapes 247 sea-star shrimp 308 sediment plain 140, 182 shells, beach 107 Sklinna Bank 433
sea hare 286 seafloor spreading 45 sediment predators 140 Sherard, Cape 425, 426 Skookumchuck Narrows Tidal
sea ivory 255 and sea-level change 45 sedimentary basins 45 Shetland Islands 425, 433 Race 82
sea knolls 174 seagrass 146, 243, 250 oil deposits 45 Shikoku 456, 461, 464, 466 skua, great see parasitic jaeger
sea krait, yellow-lipped 368, Gazi Bay 149 sedimentary rock 42 Shikoku Basin 456, 464, 466 Skye, Isle of 432
374 Laguna de Términos 148 seeps, cold 189 Shikoku Island 83 sleeper shark 323
sea lamprey 319 Lombok 149 Seine Plain 437 Shimada Seamount 469 slender sea pen 266
sea lavender 124 meadows 117, 146–47 Seine Seamount 437 Shinkai submersible 168 slender snipe eel 342
common 252 Monteray Bay 151 seismic monitoring 49 Shinkai 6500 submersible 173 slipper limpet, sex change 279
sea lettuce 246 Shark Bay 150 Selat Mentawai 451 Shipunskiy, Mys 458 Sloane’s viperfish 346
sea lily 223, 306, 311 seahorse Semibalanus balanoides 294 shipworm 280 slope, continental 176
sea lion camouflage 135 semidiurnal tides 78 shipwrecks Slough-na-more Tidal Race 81
Australian 404–405 pygmy 357 semipalmated sandpiper 126 diving 475 smalltooth sawfish 333
Californian 403 short-snouted 356 Seneca the Younger, hydrologic as habitat 145 smelt 339, 345
South American, breeding seal cycle 65 Skeleton Coast 98 Smetanin Seamount 461
colonies 401 Antarctic fur 403 Senkaku Islands 464, 466 Shiraho Reef 160 smokers
sea lions, anatomy and physiology common 404 Sepia apama 289 Shirase Coast 485 black 188
400 crabeater 405 Seram, Pulau 465, 466, 472 Shirshov Ridge 458, 461 white 188
sea mayweed 243 elephant 35, 61, 222 Serendip Seamount 449 shoaling smooth cordgrass 124, 126, 127
sea mouse 144, 274 Northern 405 sergeant major 360 fish 256, 338 Smyley Island 484
Sea of Azov 439 gray 119, 404 Sermilik Valley 430 waves 77 snake eel, banded 343