A Student's Guide to the Seashore

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Cambridge University Press, Jan 13, 2011 - Science
This unique, concise and beautifully-illustrated guide allows students to identify over 650 of the common, widespread animals and seaweeds of the shore. User-friendly dichotomous keys are supported by details of diagnostic features and biology of each species. Now enhanced with 32 pages of colour, this much acclaimed guide is invaluable to students of marine biology at any level. Questions such as how does the species reproduce? What is its life-cycle? How does it feed? are answered in the notes accompanying each species to give a fascinating insight into the diversity and complexity of life on the shore. The text is supported by an extensive glossary of scientific terms and a comprehensive bibliography is included to aid further study. The third edition builds on the excellent reviews of earlier editions and will continue to appeal to a wide readership, including students, teachers and naturalists.
 

Contents

Introduction
1
Seaweeds
23
Lichens
69
Anthophyta
75
Porifera
79
Cnidaria
86
Ctenophora
126
Platyhelminthes
129
Arthropoda
298
Sipuncula
377
Echiura
380
Bryozoa Ectoprocta
382
Phoronida
394
Echinodermata
396
Hemichordata
427
Chordata
429

Nemertea
133
Priapula
140
Annelida
141
Mollusca
190
Bibliography
475
Glossary
506
Index
516
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About the author (2011)

John Fish is the former Director of the Institute of Biological Sciences and Dean of the Faculty of Science at Aberystwyth University.

Susan Fish is a Research Associate in the Institute of Biological Sciences at Aberystwyth University.

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