ISBN10: 0306472600, ISBN13: 9780306472602, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover New. US edition. Expediting shipping for all USA and Europe orders excluding PO Box. Excellent Customer Service.
[Irving, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2002]

ISBN10: 0306472600, ISBN13: 9780306472602, [publisher: Springer US] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Research whilst compiling this book has uncovered a fauna about twice the size as that previously published in the literature and consequently Systema Porifera revises and stabilizes the systematics of the phylum to accommodate this new knowledge in a contemporary framework. Practical tools (key illustrations, descriptions of character) are provided to facilitate the assignment of approximately 680 extant and 100 fossil genera.Systema Porifera is unique making sponge taxonomy widely available at the practical level of classification (genera, families, order). It is a taxonomic revision of sponges and spongiomorphis (such as sphinctozoans and archaeocyathans) based on re-evaluation of type materials and evidence. It is also a practical guide to sponge identification providing descriptions and illustrations of characters and interpretation of their importance to systematics. Systema Porifera addresses many long standing nomenclatural problems and provides a sound baseline for future debate on sponges and their place in time and space.Systema Porifera describes 3 classes, 7 subclasses, 24 orders, 127 families and 682 valid genera of extant sponges (with over 1600 nominal generic names and an additional 500 invalid names treated). Treatment of the fossil fauna is less comprehensive or critical, although 6 classes, 30 orders, 245 families and ...
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Springer , pp. lvii + 1764, Maps . Hardback. New. Springer ISBN 0306472600 9780306472602 [US]

ISBN10: 0306472600, ISBN13: 9780306472602, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
[Milano, MI, Italy] [Publication Year: 2002]

Plenum Pub Corp, Date: 2003. Hardcover. New. 1st edition. 1810 pages. 11.00x9.00x4.25 inches. 2003. Plenum Pub Corp ISBN 0306472600 9780306472602 [GB]

ISBN10: 0306472600, ISBN13: 9780306472602, [publisher: Plenum Pub Corp] Hardcover 1st edition. 1810 pages. 11.00x9.00x4.25 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2003]

Springer 2004 2002. Corr. 2nd Printing 2004 ed. Annotated. HARDBACK New P lvii + 1764, Maps.

ISBN10: 0306472600, ISBN13: 9780306472602, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover pp. lvii + 1764 Illus., Maps
[Hounslow, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2002]