Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (eds), 1990, The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and north-west Europe

Author	Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (eds)
Year	1990
Title	The Marine Fauna of the British Isles and north-west Europe
ISBN	0 19 857515 7
Type	Book/Report
How Complete	Most of the British and north-west European marine species known at the time
Source	2 volumes, 996pp, Clarendon Press
Illustrations	Numerous plates of line drawings in the text
Review (by Malcolm Storey)	The bible for identifying marine fauna, including very small species. A collection of chapters on all the diverse groups of marine animals found in the British Isles and north-west Europe. This is not a field guide, but is intended for use in the lab on living or dead specimens. Unfortunately now very expensive (c. £200 per volume: Jan 2012) There is a shorter single-volume version (the "Handbook") for those primarily interested in what they might find on or near the UK shores. Although mostly cut down from the present work, the Handbook also contains a few species not in the present work.
Examine	Stereo Microscope ( Compound Microscope is also useful)

Notes & Purpose	Status	Taxon	English	Classification
For identification, marine fauna	Current	ANIMALIA	animals
For identification	Current	CTENOPHORA	comb jellies	Animalia
For identification	Current	TUNICATA	ascidians, sea-squirts, tunicates	Animalia
For identification	Current	[Pisces]	fishes	Animalia
For identification	Current	ECHINODERMATA	starfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers	Animalia
For identification	Current	HEMICHORDATA	hemichordates	Animalia
For identification	Current	ARACHNIDA	mites, spiders, false scorpions, harvestmen etc.	Animalia
For identification	Current	PYCNOGONIDA	sea spiders	Animalia
For identification	Current	CRUSTACEA	crustaceans	Animalia
For identification	Current	INSECTA	true insects	Animalia
For identification	Current	MYRIAPODA	myriapods	Animalia
For identification	Current	PRIAPULIDA	priapulans	Animalia
For identification	Current	TARDIGRADA	waterbears	Animalia
For identification	Current	ANNELIDA	segmented worms and leeches	Animalia
For identification	Current	BRYOZOA	bryozoans, ectoprocts and moss animals	Animalia
For identification	Current	ECHIURA	burrow worms and echiuran worms	Animalia
For identification	Current	ENTOPROCTA	entoprocts	Animalia
For identification, including the tiniest bivavles that are omitted from most other guides	Current	MOLLUSCA	slugs, snails, bivalves, octopus, sea slugs	Animalia
For identification	Current	NEMERTEA	proboscis worms, ribbon worms	Animalia
For identification	Current	POGONOPHORA	beard worms	Animalia
For identification	Current	SIPUNCULA	sipunculan worms	Animalia
For identification	Current	PLATYHELMINTHES	flatworms, tapeworms, flukes	Animalia
For identification	Current	CNIDARIA	hydroids, jelly fish, sea anemones, jellyfish	Animalia
For identification	Superseded	PORIFERA	sponges	Animalia
For identification	Current	PROTOZOA	protists, single-celled organisms

Author & Year	Title	Source	Relationship
Hayward, P.J. & Ryland, J.S. (eds), 1996	Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe	reprint with minor corrections edition, 800pp, Oxford University Press	Single cut-down volume

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