Marine Invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest: With Additions and Corrections

by Eugene N. Kozloff

Book Overview

Now available in a paperback edition, updated with 30 pages of additions and corrections, this work provides a systematic treatment of almost every group of marine invertebrates of the Pacific Northwest. Close to 4,000 species are covered and many are illustrated by photographs or drawings. Developed over a period of more than 30 years by zoologists associated with the Friday Harbor Laboratories of the University of Washington and several other institutions,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295965304
• ISBN13: 9780295965307
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 552 Pages
• Weight: 3.95 lbs.
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

A good book and good service

I was familiar with the book, after all it is a classic in its field. The book arrived in good condition and I am as happy as a clam (no pun intended).

Excellent set of taxonomic keys to Pac NW invertebrates

Kozloff and Price's set of keys is an excellent tool for collectors and scientists who need to know what they are looking at, and to be sure that they have the right name with the animal in their hand/bucket. This 8.5" x 11' format book covers marine invertebrate phyla down to the species level for animals found from southern Oregon to the Queen Charlotte Islands, British Columbia, Canada. As such, it makes a great companion set of keys to "Light's Manual: Intertidal Invertebrates of the Central California Coast" by Smith and Carlton, and "Marine Algae of California" by Abbott and Hollenberg. That set of 3 books is a treasure for people who need good taxonomic information on nearshore marine life to support what they do along the pacific coast of North America.Back to Kozloff's book...the book has the keys themselves, as well as supporting BW photographs and great line drawings to help the reader interpret particularly sticky parts of the keys. There are also brief occasional notes about known ranges of some animals covered, but this is not a reference book to the ecology of these animals, it is an excellent set of taxonomic keys. The book is a reprint of a 1987 publication. As such some names of taxonomic groups have changed in the intervening 13 years. Nevertheless, this book remains the best set of keys for this region that we have.