Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States Porifera to Crustacea

by Smith, Douglas Grant

• ISBN13: 9780471358374
• ISBN10: 0471358371
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-07
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Need-to-know information on the classification and identification of aquatic invertebrates This Fourth Edition of the standard reference used by generations of professionals and students is the source for authoritative information on the natural history, ecology, and taxonomy of free-living American freshwater invertebrates. Completely revised and updated, this professional field guide features a wealth of new knowledge on invertebrate animal phyla covered in the previous edition as well as fully modified sections on the preparation of materials. Other important features of Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, Fourth Edition include: * Current taxonomical arrangements of all freshwater invertebrate animals, excluding insects * Improved graphical treatments and keys to identification, several provided by specialists * Photographs and color plates to aid identification * More than 300 line drawings, many new to this edition * Taxonomic keys carried uniformly to genus level in all but two phyla, with frequent references to species Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, Fourth Edition is an indispensable resource for biologists, ecologists, graduate students, and anyone who needs to acquire the thorough knowledge of aquatic invertebrates that is essential to understanding the community structure of freshwater environments.

Author Biography

DOUGLAS GRANT SMITH, MS, is a lecturer and curator of invertebrates in the Department of Biology and Graduate Program in Evolutionary and Organismic Biology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(40)
Magnitude of the Freshwater Environment	2	(1)
The Chemical Divergence	2	(2)
Origins of the Freshwater Fauna	4	(3)
Freshwater Emigrants to the Sea	7	(1)
Major Distinctions Between Marine and Freshwater Invertebrates	8	(10)
Evolutionary Shortcomings in Freshwaters	18	(3)
Atypical Freshwater Habitats	21	(6)
Dispersal and Barriers	27	(1)
The Epidemic of Exotics	28	(4)
Food Webs	32	(1)
Collecting Ethics	33	(1)
Comment	33	(8)
Porifera	41	(20)
Cnidaria	61	(16)
Platyhelminthes	77	(32)
Nemertea	109	(8)
Gastrotricha	117	(12)
Rotifera	129	(62)
Nematoda	191	(26)
Nematomorpha	217	(10)
Tardigarda	227	(18)
Entoprocta	245	(4)
Ectoprocta	249	(20)
Annelida	269	(58)
Polychaeta	270	(5)
Aeolosomatidae	275	(1)
Oligochaeta	276	(20)
Branchiobdellida	296	(5)
Hirudinea	301	(26)
Mollusca	327	(74)
Gastropoda	328	(32)
Pelecypoda	360	(41)
Arachnida	401	(20)
Hydrachnida	401	(11)
Halacaridae	412	(2)
Oribatei	414	(2)
Spiders	416	(5)
Introduction To The Crustacea	421	(6)
Phyllopodous Branchiopoda	427	(26)
Cladoceran Branchiopoda	453	(36)
Copepoda	489	(30)
Branchiura	519	(2)
Ostracoda	521	(24)
Minor Malacostraca	545	(8)
Isopoda	553	(16)
Amphipoda	569	(16)
Decapoda	585	(24)
Appendix: Reagents, Solutions, And Laboratory Items	609	(8)
Index	617