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Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae

  • 2nd Edition - April 16, 2025
  • Latest edition
  • Editors: Michael J. Boyle, Craig M. Young, Mary A. Sewell
  • Language: English

Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae, Second Edition covers the origins and history of marine larval science, contemporary state-of-the-art approaches to larval development and bi… Read more

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Description

Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae, Second Edition covers the origins and history of marine larval science, contemporary state-of-the-art approaches to larval development and biology, and the highest-quality images and schematics showing the broadest diversity of marine larvae in the animal tree of life. This book illustrates larval body plans, the anatomy of their organ systems (muscular, sensory, digestive), including distinct ciliation patterns that facilitate swimming, and the complex metamorphic changes they undergo between different larval and growth stages. Each chapter contains in-text references that direct readers to both historical and contemporary research on the forms, functions, behaviors and biogeographical distributions of marine larvae.This book is a valuable and foundational resource for biologists across various disciplines, including biodiversity, biogeography, and developmental biology. Ecologists, taxonomists, oceanographers, and environmental scientists also benefit from the complete coverage of marine larval forms offered by this book. Additionally, the broad scope and phyletic coverage of marine biodiversity presented in this atlas is ideal for students in oceanography and marine biology, animal development, biological oceanography and invertebrate zoology.

Key features

  • Covers every major marine invertebrate clade within the Metazoa
  • Includes an expanded introductory chapter on the biology, ecology and roles of larvae in marine food webs and the movements of marine invertebrate species within the world’s oceans
  • Provides complete updates to each chapter, including condensed, comparative background information on taxon-specific development and life-history patterns
  • Features detailed anatomical schematics and drawings, accompanied by compound, confocal and scanning electron micrographs for multiple recognized clades within each phylum

Readership

Researchers in various biology disciplines (marine biology, development, biodiversity, biogeography, life histories), ecologists, taxonomists, oceanographers, environmental scientists

Table of contents

1. Fundamentals of Larval Biology

2. The Early Discovery of Larval Forms

3. Origins and Diversification of Marine Invertebrate Larvae

4. Marine Invertebrate Larval Types

NON-BILATERIA

5. Phylum Porifera

6. Phylum Cnidaria

ECDYSOZOA

7. Phylum Loricifera

8. Phylum Priapulida

9. Phylum Arthropoda: Crustacea

SPIRALIA

10. Phyla Dicyemida and Orthonectida

11. Phylum Cycliophora

12. Phylum Entoprocta

13. Phylum Bryozoa

14. Phylum Platyhelminthes

15. Phylum Acanthocephala

16. Phylum Phoronida

17. Phylum Brachiopoda

18. Phylum Nemertea

19. Phylum Annelida

20. Phylum Sipuncula

21. Phylum Mollusca: Aculifera and Scaphopoda

22. Phylum Mollusca: Gastropoda

23. Phylum Mollusca: Bivalvia

24. Phylum Mollusca: Cephalopoda

DEUTEROSTOMIA

25. Phylum Echinodermata: Crinoidea

26. Phylum Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea

27. Phylum Echinodermata: Asteroidea

28. Phylum Echinodermata: Holothuroidea

29. Phylum Echinodermata: Echinoidea

30. Phylum Hemichordata

31. Phylum Chordata: Tunicata

32. Phylum Chordata: Cephalochordata

Product details

  • Edition: 2
  • Latest edition
  • Published: July 7, 2025
  • Language: English

About the editors

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Michael J. Boyle

Michael Boyle is Biologist and Principal Investigator of the Life Histories Program at the Smithsonian Marine Station. Dr. Boyle is an early-career scientist with doctoral and post-doctoral research experience on comparative development of embryonic and larval stages of marine annelids. He is an expert on the imaging of larval invertebrates with confocal laser scanning microscopy. His laboratory focuses on describing molecular, genetic, and developmental diversity of marine invertebrate life cycles.
Affiliations and expertise
Biologist and Principal Investigator of the Life Histories Program at the Smithsonian Marine Station

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Craig M. Young

Craig Young is Professor of Biology at the University of Oregon, and past Director of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology. Dr. Young has devoted his professional career to investigating the reproduction and early life-history stages of marine benthic invertebrates at all depths of the sea, and his lab pioneered the culture of larvae from deep-sea environments worldwide. Dr. Young, the founding editor of Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae, returns to the second edition as co-editor.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biology and past Director of the Oregon Institute of Marine Biology, USA

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Mary A. Sewell

Mary A. Sewell is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She is an authority on the larval form, physiology, and ecology of echinoderms, with research on species from the tropics to the Antarctic and from the intertidal to abyssal depths. Dr. Sewell returns to the second edition of Atlas of Marine Invertebrate Larvae as associate editor.

Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Biological Science, University of Auckland, New Zealand

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