A Checklist and Bibliography of the Sipuncula from Canadian and Adjacent Waters
Author : P. G. Frank
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Annelida
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Author : P. G. Frank
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Annelida
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Author : Edward Bayler Cutler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 49,50 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780801428432
The Sipuncula, a group of ocean-dwelling worms related to annelids and mollusks, play a significant role in the bioerosion of coral reefs and are useful indicators of environmental conditions. The 155 species live in a wide variety ofmarine habitats at all depths, in sand and mud, in burrows in soft rock and dead coral, and inside such protective shelters as mollusk shells. Important food items for fish and invertebrate predators, they also recycle organic wastes and function as bioassay tools for human diseases such as cystic fibrosis and acute cholera. Edward B. Cutler brings together in this volume everything that is known about the entire phylum.An introduction, with practical information about collecting and handling the animals, is followed by Part One, which incorporates new systematic analyses made during the past twenty years and offers illustrated keys to all taxa, replacing the work of A.C. Stephen and S.J. Edmonds. Part Two reviews the past thirty years' work in such areas as ecology, muscular sysetms, blood chemistry, respiration, reproduction, and excretion. Part Three provides a new synthetic perspective on the phylum's zoogeography and evolutionary relationships, both to other phyla and within the phylum. It utilizes information from the fossil record, paleo-oceanographic data, and comparative studies of immunology, physiology, embryology, and anatomy.Edward B. Cutler is Professor of Biology at Utica College of Syracuse University, now on long-term leave at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University.
Author : Andrew L. Lissner
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Page : 334 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Benthos
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Author : Environmental Science Information Center. Library and Information Services Division
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Page : 14 pages
File Size : 49,34 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Ecology
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Author : Assessment and Information Services Center (U.S.). Library and Information Services Division
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 32,52 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Earth sciences
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Author : United States. National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service. Library and Information Services Division
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Page : 606 pages
File Size : 46,5 MB
Release : 1983
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Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Canada
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Page : 1134 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Natural history
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Page : 578 pages
File Size : 23,19 MB
Release : 1984-10
Category : Fisheries
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Page : 950 pages
File Size : 34,48 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Aquatic sciences
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