Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel: The Mollusca, part 1, aplacophora, scaphopoda, bivalvia, and cephalopoda

Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel: The Mollusca, part 1, aplacophora, scaphopoda, bivalvia, and cephalopoda
Title Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel: The Mollusca, part 1, aplacophora, scaphopoda, bivalvia, and cephalopoda PDF eBook
Author Andrew L. Lissner
Publisher
Pages 270
Release 1996
Genre Benthos
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Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date

Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date
Title Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date PDF eBook
Author Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher Food & Agriculture Org.
Pages 398
Release 2018-11-15
Genre Nature
ISBN 9251079897

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This is the third volume of the entirely rewritten, revised and updated version of the original FAO Catalogue of Cephalopods of the World (1984). The present Volume is a multiauthored compilation that reviews 13 families, i.e. (in alphabetical order), Alloposidae, Amphitretidae, Argonautidae, Bolitaenidae, Cirroctopodidae, Cirroteuthidae, Octopodidae, Ocythoidae, Opisthoteuthidae, Stauroteuthidae, Tremoctopodidae, Vampyroteuthidae, Vitreledonellidae, with 56 genera and the 280 species known and named to the date of the completion of the volume.

Distributed Vision

Distributed Vision
Title Distributed Vision PDF eBook
Author Elke Buschbeck
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 319
Release 2023-03-28
Genre Medical
ISBN 303123216X

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This volume explores the diversity of distributed eyes and other unusual visual systems in nature. It compares the unique themes of optics, neural processing, and behavioral control that emerge from these visual systems with more-canonical eyes. This volume attempts to answer a number of questions about distributed visual systems. What are distributed visual systems good for, how do they function, and why have they arisen independently in so many phyla? Why are eye designs and visual system arrangements much more diverse in invertebrates? Each chapter includes an overview of the visual systems that exist in their group of animals, relates vision to ecology, and takes a comparative approach.

Oceanography and Marine Biology

Oceanography and Marine Biology
Title Oceanography and Marine Biology PDF eBook
Author R. N. Gibson
Publisher CRC Press
Pages 432
Release 2008-06-05
Genre Science
ISBN 1420065750

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Increasing interest in marine biology and its relevance to environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews of recent research. Oceanography and Marine Biology has addressed this demand for nearly 40 years. This annual review considers basics of marine research, special topics, and emerging new areas. Regarding the marine sciences as a unified field, the text features contributors who are actively engaged in biological, chemical, geological, and physical aspects of marine science. This edition includes a full color insert and covers such topics as the ecological status of the Great Barrier Reef, the effects of coral bleaching on fisheries, and the biology of octopus larvae.

Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America

Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America
Title Marine Biodiversity of Costa Rica, Central America PDF eBook
Author Ingo S. Wehrtmann
Publisher Springer Science & Business Media
Pages 545
Release 2008-12-28
Genre Science
ISBN 1402082789

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Life began in the sea, and even today most of the deep diversity of the planet is marine. This is often forgotten, especially in tropical countries like Costa Rica, renowned for their rain forests and the multitude of life forms found therein. Thus this book focusing on marine diversity of Costa Rica is particularly welcome. How many marine species are there in Costa Rica? The authors report a total of 6,777 species, or 3. 5% of the world’s total. Yet the vast majority of marine species have yet to be formally described. Recent estimates of the numbers of species on coral reefs range from 1–9 million, so that the true number of marine species in Costa Rica is certainly far higher. In some groups the numbers are likely to be vastly higher because to date they have been so little studied. Only one species of nematode is reported, despite the fact that it has been said that nematodes are the most diverse of all marine groups. In better studied groups such as mollusks and crustaceans, reported numbers are in the thousands, but even in these groups many species remain to be described. Indeed the task of describing marine species is daunting – if there really are about 9 million marine species and Costa Rica has 3. 5% of them, then the total number would be over 300,000. Clearly, so much remains to be done that new approaches are needed. Genetic methods have en- mous promise in this regard.

An Annotated Checklist of the Marine Macroinvertebrates of Alaska

An Annotated Checklist of the Marine Macroinvertebrates of Alaska
Title An Annotated Checklist of the Marine Macroinvertebrates of Alaska PDF eBook
Author David Thomas Drumm
Publisher
Pages 308
Release 2016
Genre Marine animals
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A current and comprehensive species list of marine invertebrates of Alaska is essential for effective management of living marine resources, sustainable fisheries, conservation of vulnerable ecosystems, and advancement of our knowledge of biodiversity and ecosystem function. Furthermore, the most current checklist available to resource managers and scientists is quite dated and limited in that it only includes the marine invertebrates of the southern coast of Alaska to California. Since that checklist was published, many new species have been described, many range extensions have been discovered, and considerable changes in higher-level systematics have been made. The checklist that we have compiled lists 3708 species and presents for each species the currently accepted scientific name and its significant synonyms, common names, type localities, geographic and depth distributions, a general statement of abundance in Alaska when known (e.g., rare, uncommon, common, abundant), and general remarks. It includes species recorded in the marine waters of Alaska from the intertidal zone, continental shelf, and upper continental slope to abyssal depths, from the Beaufort Sea at the Arctic border with Yukon, Canada; the eastern Chukchi Sea, the eastern Bering Sea, the Aleutian Islands to the western border with Russia; and the Gulf of Alaska to Dixon Entrance at the southern border with British Columbia. Sound and reliable taxonomic identifications are necessary to monitor and predict changes in the distribution and abundance of marine species. The current status and future direction of the study of Alaskan marine invertebrate biodiversity are briefly discussed.

SCAMIT Newsletter

SCAMIT Newsletter
Title SCAMIT Newsletter PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 216
Release 1998
Genre Marine invertebrates
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