SugarSpring
The Galapagos Marine Life Series, considered the most accurate for identifying marine life among published field guides, is indispensable for divers, snorkelers, biologists, indeed anyone interested in tropical Eastern Pacific invertebrates. The four field guides describe and illustrate in full color the sea stars and their kin, including brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers; marine molluscs, including some 250 species of bivalves, gastropods, opisthobranchs, and chitons of Galapagos; crustaceans, embracing 184 species of shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and barnacles of the Galapagos; and corals, illustrating with color photos 88 species of corals, anemones, zoanthids, black corals, gorgonians, sea pens and hydroids of the Galapagos Islands The result of two decades of research by the authors in collaboration with the Charles Darwin Research Station in Galapagos, the books are filled with information for divers, beachcombers, snorkelers and those wanting a better undestanding of the fascinating underwater world of Galapagos. Many species appear in full color photographs for the first time in any publication. Dr. Graham Edgar, former Head of Marine Science, Charles Darwin Research Station commented, A I know of no better series of marine invertebrate guidebooks.@ The series is sufficiently comprehensive to be valuable to marine scientists everywhere.
A Field Guide to Marine Molluscs of Galapagos
Cleveland P. Hickman Jr.
Describes and illustrates in full color more than 250 species of the most common and characteristic of Galapagos intertidal and shallow-water molluscs. With accurate illustrations and precise description, visitors to Galapagos can quickly identify any of the common molluscs encountered.
$18.95
Spiral-bound: 150 pages
Publisher: Sugar Spring Press (April 1, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966493222
ISBN-13: 978-0966493221
A Field Guide to Corals and other Radiates of Galapagos
Cleveland P. Hickman Jr.
Describes and illustrates with color photos 88 species of corals, anemones, zoanthids, gorgonians, sea pens and hydroids of the Galapagos Islands. This is the fourth field guide in the Galapagos Marine Life Series (earlier guidebooks described sea stars and other echinoderms, marine molluscs, and crustaceans). Included is an addendum with descriptions of recently discovered echinoderms and opisthobranch molluscs.
$18.95
Spiral-bound: 172 pages
Publisher: Sugar Spring Press; 1st edition (June 23, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966493249
ISBN-13: 978-0966493245
A Field Guide to Crustaceans of Galapagos
Cleveland P. Hickman Jr., Todd L. Zimmerman
This third field guide in the Galapagos Marine Life Series describes and illustrates with color photographs 184 shrimps, lobsters, crabs, and barnacles from the Galapagos Islands. Most appear in living color for the first time in any publication. The result of eight years research by the authors. This comprehensive treatment continues the highly respected standard for previous volumes in the series.
$18.95
Spiral-bound: 156 pages
Publisher: Sugar Spring Press (December 15, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966493230
ISBN-13: 978-0966493238
A Field Guide to Sea Stars & Other Echinoderms of Galapagos
Cleveland P. Hickman Jr.
A compact field guide to the commonly encountered echinoderms of the Galapagos Islands, an exotic and coloful group that includes sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, heart urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers. With full color illustrations and complete, diagnostic descriptions, this book is intended for visitors and scientists to the Galapagos.
$16.95
Spiral-bound: 83 pages
Publisher: Sugar Spring Press (June 15, 1998)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0966493206
ISBN-13: 978-0966493207