Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 1 Ponder Winston Frank
Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 1 Ponder Winston Frank Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in virtually all habitats. This book and its…
Specifikacia Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 1 Ponder Winston Frank
Biology and Evolution of the Mollusca, Volume 1 Ponder Winston Frank
Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in virtually all habitats. This book and its companion volume provide the first comprehensive account of the Mollusca in decades. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry diseases, while many non-marine molluscs are threatened by human impacts which have resulted in more extinctions than all tetrapod vertebrates combined.
This volume includes general chapters drawn from extensive and diverse literature on the anatomy and physiology of their structure, movement, reproduction, feeding, digestion, excretion, respiration, nervous system and sense organs. Illustrated with hundreds of colour figures, it reviews molluscan biology, genomics, anatomy, physiology, fossil history, phylogeny and classification. Other chapters review the natural history (including ecology) of molluscs,