The book describes the brains and sense organs of 57 of the 139 genera of the class Cephalopoda, many in great detail, as well as a variety of morphological features. The text is well-illustrated with fully labelled line drawings and photomicrographs. Attention is drawn to the many gaps in our knowledge of these intriguing marine invertebrates with a view to stimulating future research.
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Dr Marion Nixon The Old Library, School Road, Broughton, Cambridgeshire, PE28 3AT 01487 822 015 Honorary Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, University of London B.Sc., Ph.D Fellow of Linnean society Professor John Z. Young (Deceased) Emeritus Professor of Anatomy, University College, London
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Cephalopoda form one of the three largest classes of the phylum Mollusca, and are among the most attractive of all the invertebrates living in the sea, with their astonishing capacity to change colour apparently instantaneously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suboesophageal mass, magnocellular lobe, pedal lobe, vertical lobe system, palliovisceral lobe, supraoesophageal lobes, anterior basal lobe, photosensitive vesicles, buccal palps, peduncle lobe, brachial lobe, lateral basal lobes, chromatophore lobes, cephalic cartilage, suboesophageal lobes, mantle connective, axial nerve cord, conjunctive muscles, fine parallel fibres, subfrontal lobe, superior buccal lobe, transverse crista, salivary papilla, stellar nerves, epistellar body Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaiian Islands, Indian Ocean, Hong Kong, South Africa, Indo-west Pacific, New Caledonia, North Sea, Virgin Islands, Backwards Packard, Bering Sea, Cambridge University Press, Caribbean Sea, Continued Taxon Etymology, Imm Fig, Placentia Bay, Red Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, West Africa New!
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Cephalopoda form one of the three largest classes of the phylum Mollusca, and are among the most attractive of all the invertebrates living in the sea, with their astonishing capacity to change colour apparently instantaneously. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
suboesophageal mass, magnocellular lobe, pedal lobe, vertical lobe system, palliovisceral lobe, supraoesophageal lobes, anterior basal lobe, photosensitive vesicles, buccal palps, peduncle lobe, brachial lobe, lateral basal lobes, chromatophore lobes, cephalic cartilage, suboesophageal lobes, mantle connective, axial nerve cord, conjunctive muscles, fine parallel fibres, subfrontal lobe, superior buccal lobe, transverse crista, salivary papilla, stellar nerves, epistellar body Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, Pacific Ocean, New Zealand, Southern Oceans, Gulf of Mexico, Hawaiian Islands, Indian Ocean, Hong Kong, South Africa, Indo-west Pacific, New Caledonia, North Sea, Virgin Islands, Backwards Packard, Bering Sea, Cambridge University Press, Caribbean Sea, Continued Taxon Etymology, Imm Fig, Placentia Bay, Red Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, West Africa New!
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