Now available in a paperback edition, updated with thirty pages of additions and corrections, this work provides a systematic treatment of almost every group of marine invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest. Close to 4,000 species are covered and many are illustrated by photographs or drawings. Developed over a period of more than thirty years by zoologists associated with the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington and several other institutions, the keys, taxonomic lists, and bibliographies are relevant to invertebrates of intertidal and shallow subtidal habitats between southern Oregon and the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia. Wherever possible, the keys are based on obvious characteristics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface to the 1996 Printing
Preface to the 1987 Printing
1. Introduction
2. Phylum Porifera
3. Phylum Cnidaria
4. Phyla Ctenophora, Orthonectida, Dicyemida
5. Phyla Platyhelminthes, Gnathostomulida
6. Phylum Nemertea
7. Phyla Nematoda, Gastrotricha, Rotifera, Kinorhyncha, Priapulida
8. Phylum Annelida: Class Polychaeta
9. Phylum Annelida: Classes Oligochaeta, Hirudinea
10. Phyla Echiura, Sipuncula, Pogonophora, Vestimentifera
11. Phylum Mollusca: Classes Aplacophora, Polyplacophora
12. Phylum Mollusca: Class Gastropoda
13. Phylum Mollusca: Class Bivalvia
14. Phylum Mollusca: Classes Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda
15. Phylum Tardigrada and Phylum Arthropoda: Subphyla Chelicerata, Uniramia
16. Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Crustacea: Classes Branchiopoda, Copepoda, Ostracoda, Cirripedia
17. Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Crustacea: Class Malacostraca: Subclasses Phyllocarida, Peracarida (in part)
18. Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Crustacea: Class Malacostraca: Subclass Peracarida: Order Amphipoda
19. Phylum Arthropoda: Subphylum Crustacea: Class Malacostraca: Subclass Eucarida
20. Phyla Phoronida, Brachiopoda, Entoprocta
21. Phylum Bryozoa (Ectoprocta)
22. Phylum Echinodermata
23. Phyla Urochordata, Hemichordata, Chaetognatha
Glossary
Additions and Corrections
Index
