INVERTEBRATES. 3RD EDITION

1: Introduction
2: Systematics, Phylogeny, and Classification
3: The Protists: Kingdom Protista
4: Introduction to the Animal Kingdom: Animal Architecture and Body Plans
5: Introduction to the Animal Kingdom: Development, Life Histories, and Origin
6: Two Basal Metazoan Phyla: Porifera and Placozoa
7: Phylum Cnidaria: Anemones, Corals, Jellyfish, and Their Kin
8: Phylum Ctenophora: The Comb Jellies
9: Introduction to the Bilateria, and the Phylum Xenacoelomorpha: Triploblasty and Bilateral Symmetry Provide New Avenues for Animal Radiation
10: Phylum Platyhelminthes: The Flatworms
11: Four Enigmatic Protostome Phyla: Rhombozoa, Orthonectida, Chaetognatha, Gastrotricha
12: Phylum Nemertea: The Ribbon Worms
13: Phylum Mollusca
14: Phylum Annelida: The Segmented (and Some Unsegmented) Worms
15: Two Enigmatic Spiralian Phyla: Entoprocta and Cycliophora
16: The Gnathifera: Phyla Gnathostomulida, Rotifera (including Acanthocephala), and Micrognathozoa
17: The Lophophorates: Phyla Phoronida, Bryozoa, and Brachiopoda
18: The Nematoida: Phyla Nematoda and Nematomorpha
19: The Scalidophora: Phyla Kinorhyncha, Priapula, and Loricifera
20: The Emergence of the Arthropods: Tardigrades, Onychophorans, and the Arthropod Body Plan
21: Phylum Arthropoda: Crustacea: Crabs, Shrimps, and Their Kin
22: Phylum Arthropoda: The Hexapoda: Insects and Their Kin
23: Phylum Arthropoda: The Myriapods: Centipedes, Millipedes, and Their Kin
24: Phylum Arthropoda: The Chelicerata
25: Introduction to Deuterostomes and the Phylum Echinodermata
26: Phylum Hemichordata: Acorn Worms and Pterobranchs
27: Phylum Chordata: Cephalochordata and Urochordata
28: Perspectives on Invertebrate Phylogeny

In the twelve years since publication of Invertebrates, Second Edition, fundamental shifts have occurred in our understanding of the origins and evolutionary relationships among protists and animals. These changes are largely due to the explosion of molecular phylogenetics and evo-devo research, emergence of the new field of animal genomics, major fossil discoveries in China, Australia, and elsewhere, and important new embryological and ultrastructural studies. As a result:

• New phyla have been described (e.g., Micrognathozoa, Xenacoelomorpha).
• Old phyla have been collapsed into others (e.g., Sipuncula and Echiura are now placed within Annelida; acanthocephalans are now known to be highly modified, parasitic rotifers).
• Phyla once thought to be deuterostomes are now part of the protostome clade (e.g., Chaetognatha, Phoronida, Bryozoa, Brachiopoda).
• The Protostomia has been reorganized into two major clades known as Ecdysozoa and Spiralia.

For each of the thirty-two currently recognized phyla, Invertebrates, Third Edition, presents detailed classifications, revised taxonomic synopses, updated information on general biology and anatomy, and current phylogenetic hypotheses, organized with boxes and tables, and illustrated with abundant line drawings and new color photos. The chapters are organized around the "new animal phylogeny," while introductory chapters provide basic background information on the general biology of invertebrates. Two new coauthors have been added to the writing team, and twenty-two additional invertebrate zoologists have contributed to chapter revisions. This benchmark volume on our modern views of invertebrate biology should be in every zoologist's library.

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New to this Edition:
• Two new co-authors have been added to the writing team
• Twenty-two additional invertebrate zoologists have contributed to chapter revisions
• Offers revised taxonomic synopses, updated information on general biology and anatomy, and current phylogenetic hypotheses

Authors
• Richard C. Brusca is Executive Director, Emeritus of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and a Research Scientist at the University of Arizona. Rick is the author of nearly 200 research publications and 13 books, including the popular field guides Common Intertidal Invertebrates of the Gulf of California, A Seashore Guide to the Northern Gulf of California, and A Natural History the Santa Catalina Mountains, with an Introduction to the Madrean Sky Islands. He has been the recipient of more than 100 research grants from the National Science Foundation, NOAA, the National Geographic Society, the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, and many other agencies and foundations. He has served on panels for the National Science Board, National Science Foundation, Smithsonian Institution, PEW Program in Conservation and the Environment, Public Broadcasting Service, IUCN Species Survival Commission, and many others.
• Wendy Moore is Assistant Professor in the Department of Entomology at the University of Arizona and Curator of the University of Arizona Insect Collection. Her degrees were earned at Vanderbilt University (B.S., General Biology), the College of Charleston (M.S., Marine Biology), and the University of Arizona (Ph.D., Entomology/Ecology and Evolutionary Biology). Dr. Moore's long-term research interest is the evolution of biotic diversity—especially the evolution of symbiotic lifestyles and how major biotic, climatic, and tectonic events may have influenced the timing and patterns of diversification. Much of her current research is on the carabid beetle subfamily Paussinae, many species of which are obligate symbionts with ants. She is also deeply committed to collections care and enhancement, and the use of bioinformatics to make collections-based data widely available to diverse user communities.
• Stephen M. Shuster is Professor of Invertebrate Zoology and Curator of Marine Invertebrates and Molluscs at Northern Arizona University. He earned a B.S. in Zoology from the University of Michigan, an M.S. in Biology from the University of New Mexico, and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of California, Berkeley. The author or coauthor of over seventy-five journal articles, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, and contributed book chapters, Dr. Shuster collaborated with Michael J. Wade on the book Mating Systems and Strategies (2003). His research broadly concerns mating system evolution, male and female reproductive behavior, community and ecosystem genetics, and the population biology of marine organisms. His recent work focuses on the measurement of selection within and among species, and the maintenance of genetic variation in natural populations of marine crustaceans and terrestrial arthropods.