Compare Prices | Create Shopping Lists with Price Drop Alerts | Set Coupons, Promo Codes & Sales Alerts | Get Access to Exclusive Deals and Much More... All in One Place | Read all about it here

Sea Snails

Sea Snails

Brand
Springer Nature
Manufacturer
N/A
Part Number
0
GTIN
9783319154510
Condition
New
Product Description

This richly illustrated book presents the diversity and natural history of sea snail groups. By integrating aspects of morphology, ecology, evolution and behaviour, it describes how each group copes with problems of defence, locomotion, nutrition, reproduction and embryonic development. First come general characteristics of the Mollusca, to which snails belong; and next, characteristics by which snails (Gastropoda) differ from other molluscs. Then a broad, panoramic view of all major sea snail groups, from the primitive to the more advanced, is presented, including both the more abundant and some remote ones of special interest. In detailing primitive sea snails, first limpets (Patellogastropoda) are described, followed by brush snails (Vetigastropoda: top-shells, turbans and allies) and nerites (Neritimorpha), a small group with remarkably high variation in shell colour and in habitats. In looking at advanced-snails (Caenogastropoda), it details the herbivorous grazers and filter-feeders and the many voracious predators, some which use venomous darts. The book also covers sea slugs (Opisthobranchia), which have shifted from mechanical to chemical defence; some are herbivores, some use their food to harness solar energy, others are predators that gain stinging cells and poisonous compounds from their food. In addition, readers will learn about aspects of sea snails in human culture, including use as sacred artefacts and objects of magic and money, as a source of the royal and sacred dyes of purple and blue and as holy ceremonial trumpets. The text, in which scientific terms are accompanied by parallel common ones, is accompanied by over 200 illustrations (mostly in colour). This comprehensive, insightful portrait of sea snails will appeal to marine biologists, zoology lecturers and students, biology teachers, field-school instructors, nature reserve wardens, amateur naturalists, as well as to lecturers and learners of human culture.

Available Colors
Available Sizes
1 Offer Price Range: $129.00 - $129.00
BEST PRICE

Single Product Purchase

$129.00
@ Link.springer.com     BUY Now

Price Comparison

Seller Contact Seller List Price On Sale Shipping Best Promo Final Price Volume Discount Financing Availability Seller's Page
BEST PRICE
1 Product Purchase
@ Link.springer.com
Contact Store Call Store Contact Support
$129.00 $129.00

$129.00
See Site In stock Visit Store

Similar Products

Cold Waters

$159.99

Die Feinplanung von DV-Systemen

$69.99

Tautological Control Systems

$54.99

Wissenschaftlicher Briefwechsel mit Bohr, Einstein, Heisenberg u.a. / Scientific Correspondence with

$199.00

Nationaler GeoPark Ruhrgebiet

$19.99

Physical Biology of Proteins and Peptides

$129.00

Financial Cryptography and Data Security

$39.99

American Political Parties Under Pressure

$129.99

Big Digital Forensic Data

$54.99

Fishery Science and Management

$109.99

Nachhaltigkeitsmarketing

$39.99

Focal Liver Lesions

$219.99

Modulational Interactions in Plasmas

$219.99

Neuroimaging Diagnosis for Alzheimer's Disease and Other Dementias

$199.99

Licht fhrt!?

$59.99

Produktionsplanung bei Sortenfertigung

$59.99

Digital Radio Systems on a Chip

$189.00

Back to the 30s?

$109.00

Netzwerkmanagement in der Automobilindustrie

$69.99

Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence

$39.99

Denumerable Markov Chains

$69.99

Bioinformatics

$89.00

Angewandte Psychologie fr Projektmanager. Ein Praxisbuch fr das erfolgreiche Projektmanagement

$54.99

Biographische Fallarbeit

$34.99

Commercialization of Postal and Delivery Services: National and International Perspectives

$169.99

Linking Species & Ecosystems

$169.99

Regularity Problem for Quasilinear Elliptic and Parabolic Systems

$54.99

Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome

$109.99

Fiber Optics Engineering

$169.99

Taschenatlas Zoologie

$29.99

Komplementre Fhrung

$59.99

Future of Civil Society

$54.99

Density Matrices and Density Functionals

$329.99

Erotic Coleridge

$39.99

Universals

$54.99

Pediatric Rheumatology

$109.00

Food Ethics Education

$74.99

Your Passport to Gifted Education

$59.99

Deep Electromagnetic Exploration

$169.00

Forschung und Handeln

$59.99