An exhaustive dictionary of over 13,000 terms relating to invertebrate zoology, including etymologies, word derivations and taxonomic classification. Entries cover parasitology, nematology, marine invertebrates, insects, and anatomy, biology, and reproductive processes for the following phyla: Acanthocephala, Annelida, Arthropoda, Brachiopoda, Bryozoa, Chaetognatha, Cnidaria, Ctenophora, Echinodermata, Echiura, Entoprocta, Gastrotricha, Gnathostomulida, Kinorhyncha, Loricifera, Mesozoa, Mollusca, Nemata, Nematomorpha, Nemertea, Onychophora, Pentastoma, Phoronida, Placozoa, Platyhelminthes, Pogonophora, Porifera, Priapula, Rotifera, Sipuncula, and Tardigrada.
With over 5,000 entries, it is ideal for students and will be invaluable to amateur naturalists and all those with an interest in the subject. - ;This is the only available paperback dictionary of zoology.
So much has to be crammed into today's biology courses that basic information on animal groups and their evolutionary origins is often left out. This is particularly true for the invertebrates.
This textbook is the most concise and readable invertebrates book in terms of detail and pedagogy (other texts do not offer boxed readings, a second color, end of chapter questions, or pronunciation guides).
RESOURCES BOOKS AND ARTICLES Amphibian (Eyewitness series) Barry Clarke (Dorling Kindersley, 2005) Animal Fact File: ... 2006, 4th edn) The Great Big Book of Snakes and Reptiles Barbara Taylor (Hermes House, 2006) Herpetology, ...
... to 52 phyla – bacteria, which can be transmitted horizontally (from environment) and/or vertically (from mother), and sometimes take up to 35% of the holobiont biomass (Reiswig, 1981; Schmitt et al., 2008; Webster et al., 2010).
Keeping the requirements of teachers and researchers in mind, this encyclopedic dictionary presents the terminology in entomology and pest management in the most authentic and comprehensive way.
This classic textbook of invertebrate zoology--used for many years in countries around the world-- has been completely revised in a new edition. It has been made more readable and concise,...
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The target readers shall highly benefit by correlating the content with the muliticoloured figures and photographs The book has been further upgraded with addition of important questions: long, short, very short and multiple questions in ...
In this volume, eighteen of the world's leading scholars investigate these lexicographers asking how the world within which they lived supported their projects? What did language itself mean for them?