Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North West Europe: Volume Ii: - Molluscs to Chordate

Zusatztext All readers will appreciate the publication of this up to date and comprehensive guide to the marine fauna of the seas around the British Isles, at a price that they can afford ... the definitive identification guide to all the common species of British marine invertebrates ... The illustrations are excellent line drawings, so thorough that they can be used to separate species that are almost identical ... The first chapter gives an excellent introduction to aspects of the marine environment ... The concise guide is highly recommended and should be regarded as essential reading and the first choice on your Christmas list. It should also be on the shelf of every Public Library as it is clearly the leading book on the subject. Klappentext These volumes are designed to fill the gap, providing dichotomous keys, illustrations, brief descriptions, and notes on distributions for the most frequently occurring interidal and subtidal marine organisms. Zusammenfassung Describes and illustrates more than 2000 species, from selected protozoans to fishes, found in the coastal waters of the British Isles and north-western Europe. The text will benefit research workers in marine biology and ecology, amateur marine biologists and participants in field courses. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; List of illustrators; P.J. Hayward, G.D. Wigan, and N. Yonow: Mollusca I: Polyplacophora and Gastropoda; P.J. Hayward: Mollusca II: Bivalvia, Scaphoda, and Cephalopoda; J.S. Ryland: Lophophorate Phyla; J. Moyse and P.A. Tyler: Echinodermata; E.W. Knight-Jones and J.S. Ryland: Hemichordata and Urochordata; J.S. Ryland: Cephalochordata and Euchordata; Index.

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• Authors: P. J. Hayward, P. J. Ryland Hayward, Peter J. Ryland Hayward
• Assisted by: P. J. Hayward (Editor), Peter J. Hayward (Editor), Hayward P. J. (Editor), J. S. Ryland (Editor), J. S. (both in Marine Ryland (Editor), John S. Ryland (Editor), Ryland J. S. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.12.1990
• EAN: 9780198575153
• ISBN: 978-0-19-857515-3
• No. of pages: 386
• Series: Molluscs to Chordates; The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe; Molluscs to Chordates; The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe
• Subjects: Guides > Nature; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Europe, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Biology, SCIENCE / Life Sciences / Marine Biology, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Limnology, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Marine Biology, Freshwater biology