A Student's Guide to the SeashoreThis 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
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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 |
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Common terms and phrases
amphipods animals antenna aperture attached barnacles Beaks bivalve branches Breeding occurs Britain British brood brown burrow calcareous carapace chaetae chelae Colony colour common conspicuous crab crevices crustaceans distributed in north-west dorsal fin dorsal surface egg masses elongate encrusting estuaries extending eyes feeding female fertilization Figure flattened free-swimming Frond Fucus gills gnathopod height holdfast hydroids intertidal Journal laminarians large numbers larvae length Linnaeus lobes lower shore male margin Marine Biological Association middle shore molluscs north-west Europe operculum outer pair of pereopods palps pectoral fins pelagic Pelvic fins plankton Plate polychaetes posterior proboscis recorded ridges rock pools rocky shores rounded salinities sand seaweeds sediment segments setae sexes are separate shallow sublittoral shell siphons smooth species specimens spines sponge stipe stones sublittoral sublittoral to depths substratum teeth telson tentacles Thallus tide tube tube-feet upper uropod usually veliger larvae ventral west coast whorls widely distributed worms zooids