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Natural history of marine animals

Title
Natural history of marine animals [by] G.E. MacGinitie [and] Nettie MacGinitie.
Author
MacGinitie, G. E. (George Eber), 1889-1989.
Publication
New York, McGraw-Hill [1968]

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Additional Authors
MacGinitie, Nettie
Description
xii, 523 pages illustrations; 23 cm
Subject
  • Marine animals
  • Marine biology
  • Marine Biology
  • marine biology
  • Marine biology
  • Marine animals
  • Meerestiere
  • Zoologia Geral
  • Animaux marins
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
Contents
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.
ISBN
  • 0070445494
  • 9780070445499
LCCN
67024441
OCLC
  • ocm00812497
  • 812497
  • SCSB-314659
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library