Echinoidea. Volume 2, Echinoidea with bilateral symmetry. Irregularia / Heinke Schultz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schultz, Heinke, author.

Contributor:

Kükenthal, Willy, Editor.

Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas, Editor.

Series:

Handbuch der Zoologie.

Handbook of Zoology. Echinodermata, 2193-2824

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sea urchins.

Echinodermata.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (360 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

The Handbook of Zoology aims to provide an in depth treatment of the entire animal kingdom from the lower invertebrates to the mammals. It publishes comprehensive overviews on animal systematics and morphology as well as extensive coverage of physiology, behaviour, ecology and applied aspects of zoological research. Volumes in progress include Nemathelminthes and Gnathifera, Annelida, Mollusca, Arthropoda, Arthropoda: Insecta, and Mammalia. Although our knowledge regarding many taxonomic groups has grown enormously over the last decades, it is still the ambition of the Handbook to be comprehensive in the sense that text and references together provide a solid basis for further research. Editors and authors seek a balance between describing species richness and diversity, explaining the importance of certain groups in a phylogenetic context and presenting a review of available knowledge and up-to-date reference literature. New contributions to the series present the combined effort of an international team of editors and authors, entirely published in English and explicitly addressing the international scientific community.

This book is the second volume of two books about sea urchins (echinoids) since 1953 (Th. Mortensen). The detailed and coloured illustrated descriptions enable the reader to identify all species living today in our oceans. Recent scientific searchings are included. Volume II. describes the Irregularia with bilateral symmetry, including the well known "sand dollars" and "heart urchins", living mostly more or less deeply burrowed in the substrat.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Foreword / Schmidt-Rhaesa, Andreas

Contents

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Classification

3. Taxonomy: systematic description Infraclass Acroechinoidea Smith, 1981

Literature

Acknowledgments

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed November 29, 2017).

ISBN:

3-11-038600-3

3-11-036853-6

OCLC:

1011446413