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"For each of 32 currently recognized phyla, Invertebrates, Third Edition presents detailed classifications, taxonomic synopses, updated information on general biology and anatomy, and current phylogenetic hypotheses. Chapters are organized around the "new animal phylogeny," along with basic background on invertebrates. Illustrated with abundant line drawings, color photos, boxes, and tables"-- Introduction -- Systematics, phylogeny, and classification -- The protists : kingdom protista -- Introduction to the animal kingdom : animal architecture and body plans -- Introduction to the animal kingdom : development, life histories, and origin -- Two basal metazoan phyla : porifera and placozoa -- Phylum cnidaria : anemones, corals, jellyfish, and their kin -- Phylum ctenophora : the comb jellies -- Introduction to the bilateria and the phylum xenacoelomorpha : triploblasty and bilateral symmetry provide new avenues for animal radiation -- Phylum platyhelminthes : the flatworms -- Four enigmatic protostome phyla : rhombozoa, orthonectida, chaetognatha, gastrotricha -- Phylum nemertea : the ribbon worms -- Phylum mollusca -- Phylum annelida : the segmented (and some unsegmented) worms -- Two enigmatic spiralian phyla : entoprocta and cycliophora -- The gnathifera: phyla gnathostomulida, rotifera (including acanthocephala), and micrognathozoa -- The lophophorates : phyla phoronida, bryozoa, and brachiopoda -- The nematoida : phyla nematoda and nematomorpha -- The scalidophora : phyla kinorhyncha, priapula, and loricifera -- The emergence of the arthropods : tardigrades, onychophorans, and the arthropod body plan -- Phylum arthropoda : crustacea: crabs, shrimps, and their kin -- Phylum arthropoda : the hexapoda: insects and their kin -- Phylum arthropoda : the myriapods: centipedes, millipedes, and their kin -- Phylum arthropoda : the chelicerata -- Introduction to the deuterostomes and the phylum echinodermata -- Phylum hemichordata : acorn worms and pterobranchs -- Phylum chordata : cephalochordata and urochordata -- Perspectives on invertebrate phylogeny. In the twelve years since publication of Invertebrates, Second Edition, fundamental shifts have occurred in our understanding of the origins and evolutionary relationships among protists and animals. These changes are largely due to the explosion of molecular phylogenetics and evo-devo research, emergence of the new field of animal genomics, major fossil discoveries in China, Australia, and elsewhere, and important new embryological and ultrastructural studies. As a result new phyla have been described (e.g., Micrognathozoa, Xenacoelomorpha), old phyla have been collapsed into others (e.g., Sipuncula and Echiura are now placed within Annelida; acanthocephalans are now known to be highly modified, parasitic rotifers), phyla once thought to be deuterostomes are now part of the protostome clade (e.g., Chaetognatha, Phoronida, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda), the Protostomia has been reorganized into two major clades known as Ecdysozoa and Spiralia. For each of the thirty-two currently recognized phyla, Invertebrates, Third Edition, presents detailed classifications, revised taxonomic synopses, updated information on general biology and anatomy, and current phylogenetic hypotheses, organized with boxes and tables, and illustrated with abundant line drawings and new color photos. The chapters are organized around the "new animal phylogeny," while introductory chapters provide basic background information on the general biology of invertebrates. Two new coauthors have been added to the writing team, and twenty-two additional invertebrate zoologists have contributed to chapter revisions. This benchmark volume on our modern views of invertebrate biology should be in every zoologist's library. |
