THE BIOLOGY OF MARINE ANIMALS

by

J. A. COLIN NICOL

Zoologist at the Plymouth Laboratory of the Marine Biological Association

Contants

1. INTRODUCTORY
2. WATER, SALTS AND MINERALS
3. BODY FLAUIDS AND CIRCULATION
4. RESPIRATION
5. NUTRITION AND FEEDING MECHANISMS
6. DIGESTION
7. EXCRETION
8. SENSORY ORGANS RECEPTION
9. EFFECTOR MECHANISMS
10. NERVOUS SYSTEM AND BEHAVIOUR
11. PIGMENTS AND COLOURS
12. COLOUR CHANGES
13. LUMINESCENCE
14. ASSOCIATIONS: COMMENSALISM, PARASITISM AND SYMBIOSIS
15. SKELETONS, SHELTERS AND SPECIAL DEFFNCES

PREP./ KHALED SHRIEF
MANAGE./ HUDA HOSNEY