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Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea
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Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea Hardcover - 2001 - 4th Edition

by Douglas Grant Smith


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Need-to-know information on the classification and identificationof aquatic invertebrates This Fourth Edition of the standard reference used by generationsof professionals and students is the source for authoritativeinformation on the natural history, ecology, and taxonomy offree-living American freshwater invertebrates. Completely revisedand updated, this professional field guide features a wealth of newknowledge on invertebrate animal phyla covered in the previousedition as well as fully modified sections on the preparation ofmaterials. Other important features of Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates ofthe United States, Fourth Edition include:
* Current taxonomical arrangements of all freshwater invertebrateanimals, excluding insects
* Improved graphical treatments and keys to identification, severalprovided 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 twophyla, with frequent references to species Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States, FourthEdition is an indispensable resource for biologists, ecologists, graduate students, and anyone who needs to acquire the thoroughknowledge of aquatic invertebrates that is essential tounderstanding the community structure of freshwater environments.

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It is estimated that the freshwater invertebrate fauna of the United States consists of over 11,000 described species.

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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.

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  • Title Pennak's Freshwater Invertebrates of the United States: Porifera to Crustacea
  • Author Douglas Grant Smith
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 4th
  • Edition 4
  • Pages 664
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wiley
  • Date July 20, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780471358374 / 0471358371
  • Weight 3.06 lbs (1.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 10.16 x 6.98 x 1.36 in (25.81 x 17.73 x 3.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Freshwater invertebrates - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00043928
  • Dewey Decimal Code 592.176

About the author

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.
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