The Light and Smith Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates from Central California to Oregon

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University of California Press, 2007 - Science - 1001 pages
"An immensely useful manual with many attractive features: comprehensive and lucid keys, precise diagrams, annotated checklists and up-to-date references. ... there is no doubt that it should be seen as an example of the type of manual which is so badly needed in the study of the fauna of many shores around the world."--Journal of Animal Ecology

"Congratulations to the editors, contributors, and publisher for a job well done. The third edition has been rewritten, corrected, and enlarged, so that while retaining the basic organization of the earlier ones, it is more useful, informative and up-to-date. The meticulous scholarship of Smith and Carlton is just what the revision needed."--Systematic Zoology

"This revision should serve for many years. It is therefore particularly commendable that the editing has been meticulous, perhaps flawless. ... thanks are due to the many contributors for a job well done."--The Quarterly Review of Biology

"As the Pacific Coast intertidal zone undergoes increasingly profound changes, knowing the sentinel invertebrates can foretell the future of the sea, and hence, of our species. Jim Carlton's hefty new update of The Light & Smith Manual, the comprehensive compendium of who's who between the tides, is the best and quickest way to do so."--Elliot A. Norse, President, Marine Conservation Biology Institute

"This much-anticipated modernization of "Light's Manual" is an astonishing accomplishment, blending state-of-the-art taxonomy with profusely illustrated and user-friendly keys to who's whom on marine shores from its stated boundaries of mid-California through Oregon, and clearly, much further north. It's also an informative, well referenced read. Marine biologists should not leave home without it."--Robert Paine, Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Washington

"At this time of environmental change and loss of biodiversity, species identification has never been more important. The fourth edition of Light and Smith is more than just a field guide--it is a masterwork of research and description with a strong focus on morphological detail. No other book has such a broad scope, newly expanded to include even the most obscure taxa. The revised keys and beautiful anatomical illustrations make this classic guide more indispensable than ever. As taxonomists become extinct, there are fewer students to receive the vast body of knowledge accumulated by generations of careful study. I hope that the beauty and depth of this guide will inspire a generation of young scientists to continue this critical taxonomic work. It will have a place of honor in all marine labs."--Paul K. Dayton, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 

Contents

Intertidal Habitats and Marine
3
Intertidal Meiobenthos
18
ROBERT P HIGGINS Asheville North Carolina
23
JAMES W NYBAKKEN ROBERT P HIGGINS
24
JAMES T CARLTON ANDREW N COHEN
32
Protista
45
Platyhelminthes
206
Acoela
214
Isopoda
503
Tanaidacea
542
Eucarida
631
Pycnogonida
656
Arachnida
665
Archaeognatha
672
Hemiptera
680
Dermaptera
686

Nemertea
221
Nematoda
234
Gastrotricha
267
Nematomorpha
274
Rotifera
280
KERSTIN WASSON RICHARD N MARISCAL
288
Annelida
298
Polychaeta
309
Arthropoda
411
Ostracoda
417
Copepoda
446
Commensal and Parasitic Copepoda
464
Branchiura
475
Leptostraca
484
Cumacea
495
Chilopoda
692
Polyplacophora
701
Gastropoda
713
Patellogastropoda
753
Littorina
761
Phoronida
860
Bryozoa
866
PENNY A MORRIS HENRY W CHANEY
905
Montréal Montréal Québec Canada DOUGLAS J EERNISSE Department of Biological Science
908
Echinodermata
913
Holothuroidea
941
Chordata
949
Index
965
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James T. Carlton is Professor of Marine Sciences at Williams College. He has directed the Williams College - Mystic Seaport Maritime Studies Program since 1989, where he teaches marine ecology. He edited (with Ralph I. Smith) Light_s Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast, Third Edition (UC Press, 1975) and is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Biological Invasions.

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