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Top notch guide to marine plankton and invertebrate larvae, September 19, 2000
This review is from: A Guide to Marine Coastal Plankton and Marine Invertebrate Larvae (Paperback)
This book, following on the heels of DeBoyd Smith's 1st edition, presents a good selection of line drawings and information about the diversity of more common marine plankton and invertebrate larvae. While no guide to this group of organisms can really hope to be exhaustive in its coverage, this book presents a good overview of the kinds of organisms that are floating around out there.
This book is a great primer to the group. It is not, however, all that useful in doing taxonomic work, but it is a great tool for use in supporting laboratory work involving general identification of plankton. In order to do more specific taxonomic work, however, one needs access to more comprehensive taxonomic keys from the professional literature.
Still, this book would be a great addition to the library of any serious student of invertebrate zoology, marine biology, or oceanography.
Alan Holyoak, Dept of Biology, Manchester College, IN
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Never received book, May 9, 2009
This review is from: A Guide to Marine Coastal Plankton and Marine Invertebrate Larvae (Paperback)
I never even received the book I bought, and no one notified my why, I am completely disappointed and frustrated.
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collection procedures and identification of zooplankton, February 9, 2000
This review is from: A Guide to Marine Coastal Plankton and Marine Invertebrate Larvae (Paperback)
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