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Paperback
476 pp.
numerous halftones and line drawings, 190 mm x 250 mm

ISBN-13:
9780195513684

Copyright Year:
1999

Imprint: OUP Australia and New Zealand

Invertebrate Zoology

Second Edition

Edited by D. T. Anderson

The first edition of Invertebrate Zoology offers undergraduates studying the biology and evolution of invertebrate animals a new approach to the subject. While the text of this second edition has been revised _ significantly, the original format has been maintained and enhanced. The chapters, written by expert authors, provide contemporary accounts of the functional, physiological, and reproductive biology of the invertebrate phyla. The final chapter of the book reviews modern interpretations of the phylogeny of invertebrates, based on cladistic and molecular evidence. The study of invertebrates has advanced rapidly in recent years, and several major changes are highlighted in this new edition. Separate chapters now reflect the recognition that the former 'aschelminths'include two disparate groups of phyla, a protosome group related to annelids nad molluscs, and an ecdysozoan group related to arthropods. All classifications have been updated and the relationships among the phyla have been further clarified. Generously illustrated throughout, and with an emphasis on readability and clear presentation, this book will be a valuable resource for all students of invertebrate zoology as well as for those involved in current advances in the biological sciences.

1. Donald Anderson: The invertebrate phyla
2. Patricia Bergquist: The Porifera
3. Rosalind Hinde: The Cnidaria and Ctenophora
4. John Walker & Donald Anderson: The Platyhelminthes, Nemertea, Entoprocta and Gnathostomulida
5. Warwick Nicholas: The pseudocoelomate protostomes
6. Warwick Nicholas: The pseudocoelomate Ecdysozoa
7. John Healy: The Mollusca
8. Greg Rouse & Donald Anderson: The Annelida and their close relatives
9. Noel Tait: The Onychophora and Tarigrada
10. Donald Anderson: Introduction to the Arthropods
11. Dinah Hales: The Hexapoda
12. Noel Tait: The Myriapoda
13. Peter Greenaway: The Crustacea
14. Donald Anderson: The Chelicerata
15. Peter Doherty: The Lophophorates: Phoronida, Brachiopoda, and Ectoprocta
16. Maria Byrne: The Echinodermata
17. Laura Stocker: The Invertebrate Chordata, Hemichordata and Chaetognatha
18. Rudolf Raff: Metazoan Phylogeny
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

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Special Features

· It provides contemporary accounts of the functional, physiological, and reproductive biology of the invertebrate phyla
· Separate chapters now reflect the recognition that the former 'aschelminths' include two disparate groups of phyla, a protostome group related to annelids and molluscs, and an ecdysozoan group related to arthropods
· All classifications have been updated, and the relationships among the phyla have been further clarified