Invertebrates - Rilegato

Brusca, Richard C.; Brusca, Gary J.

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ISBN 10: 0878930973 ISBN 13: 9780878930975

Casa editrice: Sinauer Associates Inc, 2002

Riassunto

Surveys the thirty-four phyla of animal invertebrates, describing the organic systems, body plans, and phylogeny of the organisms.

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L'autore:

RICHARD C. BRUSCA is Director of Conservation and Research at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, and also holds adjunct research positions at the University of Arizona and CIAD (Centro de Investigación en Alimentación y Desarrollo), Mexico. Dr. Brusca is a widely recognized invertebrate zoologist, marine biologist, and Sea of Cortez and Sonoran Desert naturalist.

The late GARY J. BRUSCA was Professor Emeritus at Humboldt State University. For 35 years he focused his research on the ecology and systematics of hyperiid amphipods, also writing on a variety of other subjects in journals and textbooks.

Contenuti:

INTRODUCTION
CLASSIFICATION, SYSTEMATICS, PHYLOGENY
ANIMAL ARCHITECTURE AND THE BAUPLAN CONCEPT
ANIMAL DEVELOPMENT, LIFE HISTORIES, AND ORIGINS
THE PROTISTA
PHYLUM PORIFERA: THE SPONGES
FOUR PHYLA OF UNCERTAIN AFFINITY
PHYLUM CNIDARIA
PHYLUM CTENOPHORA: THE COMB JELLIES
PHYLUM PLATYHELMINTHES
PHYLUM NEMERTEA: THE RIBBON WORMS
BLASTOCOELOMATES AND OTHER PHYLA
PHYLUM ANNELIDA: THE SEGMENTED WORMS
SIPUNCULA AND ECHIURA
THE EMERGENCE OF THE ARTHROPODS: ONYCHOPHORANS, TARDIGRADES, AND THE ARTHROPOD BAUPLAN
PHYLUM ARTHROPODA: THE CRUSTACEA
PHYLUM ARTHROPODA: THE HEXAPODA (INSECTS AND THEIR KIN)
PHYLUM ARTHROPODA: THE MYRIAPODA (CENTIPEDES AND THEIR KIN)
PHYLUM ARTHROPODA: THE CHELICERATES (SPIDERS AND THEIR KIN)
PHYLUM MOLLUSCA
THE LOPHOPHORATE PHYLA
PHYLUM ECHINODERMATA
OTHER DEUTEROSTOMES: CHAETOGNATHA, HEMICHORDATA, CHORDATA
PERSPECTIVES ON INVERTEBRATE PHYLOGENY

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• Editore: Sinauer Associates Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0878930973
• ISBN 13: 9780878930975
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 936
• Disegnatore: Haver Nancy J.