Author | Naylor, E. |
Year | 1972 |
Title | British Marine Isopods |
ISBN | 0.12.515150.0 |
Series | Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series) |
Type | Book/Report |
How Complete | All the British littoral species known at the time. The families Desmosomatidae, Eurycopidae and Monnopsidae are included in the family key but taken no further. |
Source | Synopses of the British Fauna (New Series), 3, 86pp, The Linnean Society of London |
Illustrations | Line drawings |
Review (by Malcolm Storey) | A guide to the numerous small free-living and parasitic woodlouse-like creatures to be found in rock pools, amongst sponges, algae and the holdfasts of seaweeds, etc and even in the sand of the littoral zone. |
Examine | Stereo Microscope ( Compound Microscope is also useful) |
Specimen Preparation | Dissection sometimes needed. Glycerin is a suitable medium and they may be mounted in glycerin jelly. |
Notes & Purpose | Status | Taxon | English | Classification |
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For identification | Superseded | ISOPODA | woodlice, waterlice and sea slaters | Animalia |
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