The Spiders of New Zealand: Forster, R.R. Cyatholipidae. Millidge, A.F. Linyphiidae. Court, D.J. Araneidae
Author | : Raymond R. Forster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Arachnida |
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Author | : Raymond R. Forster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Arachnida |
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Author | : Raymond R. Forster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Arachnida |
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Author | : Raymond R. Forster |
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Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1967 |
Genre | : Arachnida |
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Author | : David Penney |
Publisher | : Siri Scientific Press |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Amber fossils |
ISBN | : 0955863651 |
Compared to insects, fossil spiders have received only scant attention in the literature. Previously, the only works available were numerous scientific papers, many published in foreign languages. Most of these are basic descriptive taxonomic works, with very few considering broader biological concepts. Despite a significant increase in the discovery and description of fossil spiders within the last quarter Century this void remained unfilled. Thus, this short monograph aims to achieve several objectives. Firstly, to provide general and up to date background information on the overall importance and diversity of fossils spiders, including an indication of those groups for which the taxonomy is spurious and in need of reassessment. Secondly, to discuss the techniques available for working with fossil spiders and some of the problems encountered by palaeoarachnologists, including bias and limitations of the spider fossil record. Thirdly, the overall evolutionary history of spiders is summarized in the form of an evolutionary tree, which is subsequently used to address key issues of broad interest, such as origins, diversifications and extinctions, including the effects of mass extinctions and predator-prey co-radiations. Finally, the contribution that fossil data can make to understanding the past and present biogeography of the order is considered. This book should be of interest to both amateur and professional arachnologists and palaeontologists and will also serve as a general palaeontological reference work for neonologists studying extant spiders.
Author | : Raymond Robert Forster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Araneus |
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Author | : Rudy Jocqué |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Arachnida |
ISBN | : |
This book provides a concise overview and descriptions of the 107 spider families that are presently recognized. It contains identification keys to the families and to the different kinds of spider webs, and shortcuts to remarkable types of spiders.
Author | : Darrell Ubick |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780998014609 |
This beautifully illustrated and updated guide to the spider families and genera north of Mexico is an indispensable reference for both amateur naturalists and professional arachnologists. It provides keys to over 600 genera in 71 different families.
Author | : Norman Platnick |
Publisher | : Ivy Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2020-05-26 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1782407510 |
Learn all about the world of spiders in this complete and comprehensive guide, filled with stunning facts, beautiful photography and diagrams to help you understand everything you ever needed to know about arachnids! Bark spiders spin webs ten times stronger than Kevlar. Jumping spiders are capable of learning, recognizing, and remembering colours. Recluse spiders can tolerate six months of extreme drought and have a toxin-laden bite that can necessitate skin grafts. These are just some of the many amazing facts which you will discover in Spiders of the World, the perfect guide to one of natures most fascinating and varied creatures. This title explores the huge diversity of spider species and their fascinating traits. An introduction outlining the spider’s natural history is followed by 117 illustrated profiles spanning the taxonomic spider families. Beautiful close-up photographs of species from each family are shown, along with population distribution maps, tables of essential information, and commentaries revealing notable characteristics. The family profiles are also organized phylogenetically, and the commentaries in each account reflect different aspects of a spider’s biology.
Author | : Janet Leonard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 550 |
Release | : 2010-07-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0199717036 |
Primary sexual traits, those structures and processes directly involved in reproduction, are some of the most diverse, specialized, and bizarre in the animal kingdom. Moreover, reproductive traits are often species-specific, suggesting that they evolved very rapidly. This diversity, long the province of taxonomists, has recently attracted broader interest from evolutionary biologists, especially those interested in sexual selection and the evolution of reproductive strategies. Primary sexual characters were long assumed to be the product of natural selection, exclusively. A recent alternative suggests that sexual selection explains much of the diversity of "primary" sexual characters. A third approach to the evolution of reproductive interactions after copulation or insemination has been to consider the process one of sexual conflict. That is, the reproductive processes of a species may reflect, as does the mating system, evolution acting on males and on females, but in different directions. In this volume, authors explore a wide variety of primary sexual characters and selective pressures that have shaped them, from natural selection for offspring survival to species-isolating mechanisms, sperm competition, cryptic female choice and sexual arms races. Exploring diverse reproductive adaptations from a theoretical and practical perspective, The Evolution of Primary Sexual Characters will provide an unparalleled overview of sexual diversity in many taxa and an introduction to the issues in sexual selection that are changing our view of sexual processes.