Contents Notes |
Introduction -- Food -- Comparison between the fauna of land and of ocean -- Groupings of animals -- Animal relationships -- Sense organs -- Luminescence -- Marine animal habitats -- Growth rates -- Burrowing -- Variation and succession -- Geological records left by animal activities -- Protozoa (single-celled animals) -- Porifera (sponges) -- Coelenterata (anemones, jellyfishes, corals) -- Ctenophora (sea gooseberries) -- Platyhelminthes (flatworms) -- Nemertea (ribbon worms) -- Nematoda and chaetognatha -- Phoronida (tufted tube worms) -- Bryozoa (moss animals) -- Brachiopoda (lamp shells) -- Sipunculoidea (peanut worms) -- Echiuroidea (sea sausages) -- Annelida (segmented worms) -- Echinodermata -- Arthropoda (insects, spiders, shrimps, crabs, etc.) -- Mollusca -- Protochordata -- Vertebrata -- Relation of higher vertebrates to shore conditions. |