Molluscs comprise the second largest phylum of animals (after arthropods), occurring in
virtually all habitats. Some are commercially important, a few are pests and some carry …

This book significantly expands the coverage of this subject given by its predecessor
Biogeography and Plate Tectonics (1987). Global Biogeography traces global changes in …

Charles Birkeland Living coral is a thin veneer, measured in millimeters. Yet this thin film of
living tissue has shaped the face of the Earth by creating limestone structures sometimes …

This new field guide will describe approximately l, 000 species of invertebrates and
tunicates that are found in the Central and Western Pacific and Indian Oceans. The narrative …

Interest in obtaining biologically active compounds from natural sources has recently spiked
due to their low toxicity, complete biodegradability, availability from renewable sources, and …

This work provides an account of the systematics and phylogeny of Hypselodoris. Aspects of
the morphology of 42 species are described and the systematic status of an additional 11 …

The introduction history, systematics, transport vectors and distribution patterns of 85
introduced and 39 cryptogenic marine or estuarine animals and plants of South Africa are …

The Flabellinidae, a heterogeneous assembly of supposedly plesiomorphic to very derived
sea slug groups, have not yet been addressed by integrative studies. Here novel material of …

The present publication is a new annotated and updated checklist of the opisthobranchs
(Mollusca, Gastropoda) from the Spanish and Portuguese coasts, including their Atlantic …

Patterns of bipolar or antitropical distributions occur in a diverse array of marine invertebrate,
vertebrate, and plant groups in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Available geologic and …