Author: Andrey Ryanskiy
Publisher: Andrey Ryanskiy
ISBN: 5604204919
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Nudibranchs of the Coral Triangle became the only guide to nudibranchs on the market with an up-to-date 2022 taxonomy after its major update (November 2022) This book is a field guide, an assistant for the identification of nudibranchs species in the region. It is designed for divers, underwater photographers. The book presents 1060+ species nudibranchs that can be found and photographed in depths and regions accessible to recreational diving. Photographs, showing color variations and age differences are included. A lot of species covered by this guide have never before appeared in field guides or popular books. Compact text blocks provide information about Common name, Latin name, family, geographic distribution, size, and the most distinctive features. An extensive photo index at the beginning of the book helps you to find the right group of nudibranchs, especially for readers who have not yet mastered their names. Nudibranchs or sea slugs occur throughout the world’s oceans and are present in many marine habitats. The greatest diversity of species is found in the Indo-Pacific tropics with a concentration of species within the Coral Triangle (CT), encompassing the waters of six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. This global epicenter of marine biodiversity covers only 1.6 percent of the planet’s oceanic area, but attracts an increasing number of divers and underwater photographers, including nudibranch lovers.
Nudibranchs of the Coral Triangle
Author: Andrey Ryanskiy
Publisher: Andrey Ryanskiy
ISBN: 5604204919
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Nudibranchs of the Coral Triangle became the only guide to nudibranchs on the market with an up-to-date 2022 taxonomy after its major update (November 2022) This book is a field guide, an assistant for the identification of nudibranchs species in the region. It is designed for divers, underwater photographers. The book presents 1060+ species nudibranchs that can be found and photographed in depths and regions accessible to recreational diving. Photographs, showing color variations and age differences are included. A lot of species covered by this guide have never before appeared in field guides or popular books. Compact text blocks provide information about Common name, Latin name, family, geographic distribution, size, and the most distinctive features. An extensive photo index at the beginning of the book helps you to find the right group of nudibranchs, especially for readers who have not yet mastered their names. Nudibranchs or sea slugs occur throughout the world’s oceans and are present in many marine habitats. The greatest diversity of species is found in the Indo-Pacific tropics with a concentration of species within the Coral Triangle (CT), encompassing the waters of six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. This global epicenter of marine biodiversity covers only 1.6 percent of the planet’s oceanic area, but attracts an increasing number of divers and underwater photographers, including nudibranch lovers.
Publisher: Andrey Ryanskiy
ISBN: 5604204919
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 151
Book Description
Nudibranchs of the Coral Triangle became the only guide to nudibranchs on the market with an up-to-date 2022 taxonomy after its major update (November 2022) This book is a field guide, an assistant for the identification of nudibranchs species in the region. It is designed for divers, underwater photographers. The book presents 1060+ species nudibranchs that can be found and photographed in depths and regions accessible to recreational diving. Photographs, showing color variations and age differences are included. A lot of species covered by this guide have never before appeared in field guides or popular books. Compact text blocks provide information about Common name, Latin name, family, geographic distribution, size, and the most distinctive features. An extensive photo index at the beginning of the book helps you to find the right group of nudibranchs, especially for readers who have not yet mastered their names. Nudibranchs or sea slugs occur throughout the world’s oceans and are present in many marine habitats. The greatest diversity of species is found in the Indo-Pacific tropics with a concentration of species within the Coral Triangle (CT), encompassing the waters of six Southeast Asian countries: Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Malaysia, Timor-Leste and Solomon Islands. This global epicenter of marine biodiversity covers only 1.6 percent of the planet’s oceanic area, but attracts an increasing number of divers and underwater photographers, including nudibranch lovers.
The Man Who Walked Through Time
Author: Colin Fletcher
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804152446
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0804152446
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
The remarkable classic of nature writing by the first man ever to have walked the entire length of the Grand Canyon.
“The” Sea Worm Group
Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms
Author: Stephen Jay Gould
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061632
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674061632
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
With his customary brilliance, Gould examines the puzzles and paradoxes great and small that build nature’s and humanity’s diversity and order.
Marine Flatworms
Author: Lester Robert Glen Cannon
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643068295
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The intriguing and colourful world of Polyclads - free-living marine flatworms.
Publisher: CSIRO PUBLISHING
ISBN: 0643068295
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The intriguing and colourful world of Polyclads - free-living marine flatworms.
Sea Creatures
Author: Ilsien Nathalie Gaylord
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine animals
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Earthworms, Leeches, and Sea Worms
A Natural and Medicinal History of Worms
Author: Daniel Le Clerc
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Helminths
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Helminths
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
The Sea Worm Group, Darwin Hall, American Museum of Natural History
Author: Roy Waldo Miner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine invertebrates
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Marine invertebrates
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Catching the Worm
Author: William C. Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911479338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In 2015, Dr William C. Campbell's quiet retirement changed abruptly when, at the age of 85, he won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In Catching The Worm - A Memoir, Campbell recalls his early life in Donegal and studying zoology in Trinity College Dublin, then moving to the United States to work as a parasitologist. While working with the company Merck, he helped to discover several drugs to control parasitic worms. One of those drugs, ivermectin, has spared millions of people from the devastating effects of river blindness. Through his memoir, Campbell provides a snapshot of growing up in Ireland before and during World War II, as well as insights into science, the arts, teaching, family and what really matters in life.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781911479338
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
In 2015, Dr William C. Campbell's quiet retirement changed abruptly when, at the age of 85, he won a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. In Catching The Worm - A Memoir, Campbell recalls his early life in Donegal and studying zoology in Trinity College Dublin, then moving to the United States to work as a parasitologist. While working with the company Merck, he helped to discover several drugs to control parasitic worms. One of those drugs, ivermectin, has spared millions of people from the devastating effects of river blindness. Through his memoir, Campbell provides a snapshot of growing up in Ireland before and during World War II, as well as insights into science, the arts, teaching, family and what really matters in life.