This is a study on the sessile species of the intertidal zone which attempts to portray the intricate interplay of structural, physiological and behavioural adaptations that enable one animal to live where its congeners cannot. After outlining the physical and biotic conditions on the shore, each of the successful littoral groups is described in the order in which they appear, starting with those at the highest level and progressing to the sublittoral. Only such structures and physiological modifications are described as are necessary to understand how they are able to live on the shore. Aspects of propagation, dispersal, colonization and interaction between species are discussed in relation to community composition and distribution of animals on the shore.
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A clear and stimulating account of the rocky shore and its sessile fauna from both northern and southern hemispheres is given in this excellent book... Journal of Fish Biology; It will ...be useful to teachers, researchers and anyone who wishes to know more about those animals that are seen covering the rocks at low tide. The Biologist; ..An exceptional feature of the book is the excellent figures. It is refreshing to find a text so well illustrated by new drawings. Each main chapter has its own useful summary; there is an appendix on the classification of sessile shore animals, and both a systematic and subject index are provided.. Fisheries Research
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This review is from: Sessile Animals of the Sea Shore (Hardcover)
In 1995 me an Kai had a radio show on KUBE FM (Keele University Broadcasting something or other) named after this book.
I suspect Kai actually did go into the library, but only to look for expensive tomes on obscure sea animals - he came up a corker there. If you don't have the time / patience / money to read it - the mollusc did it.
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The sea shore is the meeting-place of land and sea where tidal movements create a strip of land that is exposed as the tide recedes and covered as it rises. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extrapallial cavity, exhalent channels, large nematocysts, tentacular coelom, fighting tentacles, gelatinous tunic, gastric filaments, flagellated chambers, tanning cells, hydranth bud, frontal membrane, many sessile animals, primary mesenteries, funicular cords, spongin fibres, thecate hydroids, allogeneic individuals, oral siphon, compound ascidians, middle shore, lateral cilia, adhesive papillae, frontal cilia, mucous sheet, new zooid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The sea shore is the meeting-place of land and sea where tidal movements create a strip of land that is exposed as the tide recedes and covered as it rises. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extrapallial cavity, exhalent channels, large nematocysts, tentacular coelom, fighting tentacles, gelatinous tunic, gastric filaments, flagellated chambers, tanning cells, hydranth bud, frontal membrane, many sessile animals, primary mesenteries, funicular cords, spongin fibres, thecate hydroids, allogeneic individuals, oral siphon, compound ascidians, middle shore, lateral cilia, adhesive papillae, frontal cilia, mucous sheet, new zooid Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Metabolic Biochemistry, Volume 4 (Biochemistry and Molecular Biology of Fishes) (Vol 4) by T.P. Mommsen in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Chemical Zoology, Vol. 4: Annelida, Echiura, and Sipuncula by Marcel Florkin in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Pathways in Malacology by S. van der Spoel in Back Matter
- Invertebrate Blood Cells, Vol. 2: Anthropods to Urchordates Invertebrates and Vertebrates Compared by N. A. Ratcliffe in Back Matter
- Life Between Tidemarks on Rocky Shores by T. A. Stephenson in Back Matter
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