Book review: BANSE, K. and S.A. PIONTKOVSKY (eds.). – 2006. The mesoscale structure of the epipelagic ecosystem of the open Northern Arabian Sea. Universities Press, Hyderabad, India. 237 pp. ISBN 81 7371 496 7.This book presents an extensive body of information obtained mainly from the thirtieth cruise of the R/V Professor Bodyanitsky to the Arabian Sea, carried out in 1990. It is part of a series published by the Universities Press, India, with the support of the Indian Academy of Sciences in Bangalore, whose aim is to narrow the English-Russian language gap concerning scientific literature on low-latitude oceans.Peer reviewed