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| Description | |
This photographic guide to sea shore animals and plants represents a completely new approach to field guides. It is aimed at those who wish to find and identify organisms encountered on the sea shore or immediately offshore quickly and easily while promoting their conservation. Uniquely, each species is illustrated by a photograph and, in most cases, accompanied by a line drawing that
emphasises the critical features for identification and a map to show the distribution of the species in North-West Europe. The text itself deliberately focuses on features that complement the photographs and facilitate identification non-destructively - where, for example, burrowing worms can only be identified by digging them up and therefore killing them, only the cast, the part usually seen,
is shown. Stress is laid on the importance of exploiting all
available information for locating and identifying each species - if two species have identical appearance they are described separately and behavioural, geographical, or seasonal features that distinguish them are described in the text. There is no other guide to sea shore organisms like this one; those available are either less
comprehensive or less well illustrated. It will appeal to beachcombers of all levels, from families to students and professionals, as well to divers and those visiting the proliferating numbers of commercially run marine aquaria that are open to the public.
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| Contents |
Main Introduction
Introduction to Divisions
Species Descriptions
Chordates
Echinoderms
Arthropods and Pycnogoids
Corals and Cnidarians
Non-segmented Worms
Molluscs
Segmented Worms
Crustaceans
Lophophorates
Lichens
Seaweeds and angiosperms
Porifera
Flotsam and jetsam
Index
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Ray Gibson, Professor of Marine Biology, John Moores University, Liverpool,
Ben Hextall, and
Alex Rogers, School of Ocean and Earth Sciences, University of Southampton
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The specification in this catalogue, including without
limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations,
and month of publication, was as accurate as
possible at the time the catalogue was compiled.
Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we
are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory.
Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.
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