| View Larger Image | Marine Flatworms: The World of Polyclads | Paperbackby Leslie Newman (Author), Lester Cannon (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | CSIRO Publishing | | Page Count: | 112 Pages | | Publication Date: | April 01, 2003 | | Sales Rank: | 652,391nd |
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Product Description
Marine Flatworms provides a fascinating introduction to the intriguing world of polyclad flatworms, a group of large, free-living marine Platyhelminthes, which are found throughout the world but are most colourful in tropical waters. Although not related to molluscs, they are often mistaken for sea slugs because of their brilliant colour patterns. Written in an accessible style by two leading experts in the field, this book explores flatworms’ unusual structure, feeding habits, their curious reproductive behaviour (including ‘penis fencing’), their mimicry and toxicology. With a foreword by Professor Reinhardt Kristensen of the Copenhagen Zoological Museum, Marine Flatworms is the first comprehensive guide to polyclad families and genera. It contains more than 300 colour photographs from every part of the world |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 2 reviews)
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An unknown world by J. Schuijf (the Netherlands)  4 Stars
August 08, 2009
Marine Flatworms : The wolrd of Polyclads leads the reader into an unknown world. As a diver I had sometimes notices these ephemere animals, gliding like little carpets over the reef, but I had never really given them a second look. This book - without being just for the biologically initiated - provides you with information on everything you have never thought you would know about these aninmals that are too fragile to be picked up at all - and this includes mimicry, eating and reproduction habits. It even includes a guide how too catch them (not to be recommended, I would think). In its colourfull photographs many sepcies of flatworms are presented; often so unknown to science that they have no name as yet. A must for divers and biologists interested in the Pacific and elsewhere.
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Prize winning photography and text by the experts! by Douglas Fenner (American Samoa)  5 Stars
March 20, 2006
This gorgeous book won the Eureka prize for best science writing. It is full of amazing pictures and amazing information about a group of animals that aren't seen very often on reefs but are a real treat. The authors are world experts, so this is an authoritative book, yet very easy to read.
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