Author | Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (eds) |
Year | 1990 |
Title | The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and north-west Europe |
ISBN | 0 19 857515 7 |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | Most of the British and north-west European marine species known at the time |
Source | 2 volumes, 996pp, Clarendon Press |
Illustrations | Numerous plates of line drawings in the text |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | The bible for identifying marine fauna, including very small species. A collection of chapters on all the diverse groups of marine animals found in the British Isles and north-west Europe. This is not a field guide, but is intended for use in the lab on living or dead specimens. Unfortunately now very expensive (c. £200 per volume: Jan 2012) There is a shorter single-volume version (the "Handbook") for those primarily interested in what they might find on or near the UK shores. Although mostly cut down from the present work, the Handbook also contains a few species not in the present work. |
Examine | Stereo Microscope ( Compound Microscope is also useful) |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
---|---|---|---|---|
For identification, marine fauna | Current | ANIMALIA | animals | |
For identification | Current | CTENOPHORA | comb jellies | Animalia |
For identification | Current | TUNICATA | ascidians, sea-squirts, tunicates | Animalia |
For identification | Current | [Pisces] | fishes | Animalia |
For identification | Current | ECHINODERMATA | starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers | Animalia |
For identification | Current | HEMICHORDATA | hemichordates | Animalia |
For identification | Current | ARACHNIDA | mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc. | Animalia |
For identification | Current | PYCNOGONIDA | sea spiders | Animalia |
For identification | Current | CRUSTACEA | crustaceans | Animalia |
For identification | Current | INSECTA | true insects | Animalia |
For identification | Current | MYRIAPODA | myriapods | Animalia |
For identification | Current | PRIAPULIDA | priapulans | Animalia |
For identification | Current | TARDIGRADA | waterbears | Animalia |
For identification | Current | ANNELIDA | segmented worms and leeches | Animalia |
For identification | Current | BRYOZOA | bryozoans, ectoprocts and moss animals | Animalia |
For identification | Current | ECHIURA | burrow worms and echiuran worms | Animalia |
For identification | Current | ENTOPROCTA | entoprocts | Animalia |
For identification, including the tiniest bivavles that are omitted from most other guides | Current | MOLLUSCA | slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs | Animalia |
For identification | Current | NEMERTEA | proboscis worms, ribbon worms | Animalia |
For identification | Current | POGONOPHORA | beard worms | Animalia |
For identification | Current | SIPUNCULA | sipunculan worms | Animalia |
For identification | Current | PLATYHELMINTHES | flatworms, tapeworms, flukes | Animalia |
For identification | Current | CNIDARIA | hydroids, jelly fish, sea anemones, jellyfish | Animalia |
For identification | Superseded | PORIFERA | sponges | Animalia |
For identification | Current | PROTOZOA | protists, single-celled organisms |
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