Table of Contents

1: Introduction
2: ANIMALIA
3: Prelude: Phylum Choanoflagellata
4: Early animal radiation
5: Phylum Silicea
6: EURADICULATA
7: Phylum Calcarea
8: PROEPITHELIOZOA
9: Phylum Homoscleromorpha
10: EUMETAZOA (GASTRAEOZOA)
11: Phylum Placozoa
12: NEURALIA
13: Phylum Cnidaria
14: TRIPLOBLASTICA
15: Phylum Ctenophora
16: BILATERIA
17: ACOELOMORPHA
18: Phylum Acoela
19: Phylum Nemertodermatida
20: Phylum Xenoturbellida
21: EUBILATERIA
22: PROTOSTOMIA
23: SPIRALIA (LOPHOTROCHOZOA)
24: SCHIZOCOELA
25: Phylum Annelida
26: Phylum Sipuncula
27: Phylum Mollusca
28: Phylum Nemertini
29: Phylum Platyhelminthes
30: Phylum Gastrotricha
31: GNATHIFERA
32: Phylum Gnathostomulida
33: Phylum Micrognathozoa
34: Phylum Rotifera
35: POLYZOA (=Bryozoa s.l.)
36: Phylum Entoprocta
37: Phylum Cycliophora
38: Phylum Bryozoa (=Ectoprocta)
39: BRACHIOZOA
40: Phylum Phoronida
41: Phylum Brachiopoda
42: ECDYSOZOA
43: PANARTHROPODA
44: Phylum Arthropoda
45: Phylum Onychophora
46: Phylum Tardigrada
47: CYCLONEURALIA
48: NEMATOIDEA
49: Phylum Nematoda
50: Phylum Nematomorpha
51: SCALIDOPHORA
52: Phylum Priapula
53: Phylum Kinorhyncha
54: Phylum Loricifera
55: Phylum Chaetognatha
56: DEUTEROSTOMIA
57: AMBULACRARIA
58: Phylum Echinodermata
59: HEMICHORDATA
60: Phylum Enteropneusta
61: Phylum Pterobranchia
62: CHORDATA
63: Phylum Cephalochordata
64: Phylum Urochordata
65: Phylum Vertebrata (Craniata)
66: Problematica
Systematic index
Subject index

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This book will be of particular value to researchers who require a broad overview of the animal kingdom. or of groups perhaps outside their immediate specialism.
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