Invertebrates /
Richard C. Brusca, Wendy Moore and Stephen M. Shuster
- 3rd ed.
- Sunderland: Sinauer Associations, 2016.
- xix, 1104 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Systematics, phylogeny, and classification. -- The protists. -- Introduction to the animal kingdom.: animal architecture and body plans. -- Introduction to the animal kingdom: development, life histories, and origin. -- Two basal metazoan phyla. -- Phylum cnidaria. -- Phylum ctenophora. -- Introduction to the bilateria and the phylum xenacoelomorpha. -- Phylum platyhelminthes. -- Four enigmatic protostome phyla. -- Phylum nemertea. -- Phylum mollusca. -- Phylum annelida. -- Two enigmatic spiralian phyla. -- The gnathifera. -- The lophophorates. -- The nematoida. -- The scalidophora. -- The emergence of the arthropods. -- Phylum arthropoda: crustacea: crabs, shrimps, and their kin. -- Phylum arthropoda: the hexapoda: insects and their kin. -- Phylum arthropoda: The myriapods: centipedes, millipedes, and their kin. -- Phylum arthropoda: the chelicerata. -- Introduction to the deuterostomes and the phylum echinodermata. -- Phylum hemichordata. -- Phylum chordata. -- Perspectives on invertebrate phylogeny.