Field Guide to Freshwater Invertebrates of North America

1. Using This Book Effectively 2. General Techniques for Collecting and Identification 3. The Nature of Inland Water Habitats 4. A Primer on Ecological Relationships Among Freshwater Invertebrates 5. Sponges: Phylum Porifera 6. Hydra and Jellyfish: Phylum Cnidari 7. Flatworms: Phylum Platyhelminthes, Class Turbellaria 8. Hairworms: Phylum Nematomorpha 9. Snails: Phylum Mollusca, Class Gastropoda 10. Mussels and Clams: Phylum Mollusca, Class Bivalvia 11. Aquatic Segmented Worms and Leeches: Phylum Annelida 12. Moss Animals: Phylum Ectoprocta, or Bryozoa 13. Introduction to Freshwater Invertebrates in the Phylum Arthropoda 14. Mites and Spiders: Subphylum Chelicerata, Class Arachnida 15. Fairy Shrimp, Tadpole Shrimp, Clam Shrimp, and Water Fleas: Subphylum Crustacea, Class Branchiopoda 16. Copepods, Fish Lice, and Seed Shrimp: Subphylum Crustacea, Classes Maxillopoda and Ostracoda 17. Aquatic Sow Bugs, Scuds, and Opossum Shrimp: Subphylum Crustacea, Class Malacostraca, Superorder Peracarida 18. Crayfish, Crabs, and Shrimp: Subphylum Crustacea, Class Malacostraca, Order Decapoda 19. Introduction to Insects and Their Near Relatives: Subphylum Hexapoda 20. Mayflies: Insect Order Ephemeroptera 21. Dragonflies and Damselflies: Insect Order Odonata 22. Stoneflies: Insect Order Plecoptera 23. True Bugs: Insect Order Hemiptera 24. Hellgrammites, Spongillaflies, Caterpillars, and Others: Minor Aquatic Insect Orders 25. Caddisflies: Insect Order Trichoptera 26. Beetles: Insect Order Coleoptera 27. Midges, Mosquitoes, Blackflies, and Other True Flies: Insect Order Diptera

Dr. D. Christopher Rogers is a research zoologist at the University of Kansas with the Kansas Biological Survey and is affiliated with the Biodiversity Institute, with numerous research projects all over the world. He received his PhD degree from the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, Australia. Christopher specializes in freshwater and terrestrial crustaceans (particularly Branchiopoda and Malacostraca) and the invertebrate fauna of seasonally astatic wetlands on a global scale. He has more than 150 peer-reviewed publications in crustacean
taxonomy and invertebrate ecology, as well as published popular and scientific field guides and identification manuals to freshwater invertebrates. Christopher is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Crustacean Biology and a founding member of the Southwest Association of Freshwater Invertebrate Taxonomists. He has been involved in aquatic invertebrate conservation efforts all over the world.

"IAN'S RECOMMENDATION: For anyone interested in the freshwater animals of North America."---The Guardian's Punctuated Equilibrium "The strength of this text lies in the narratives describing the form, function, ecology, and collection methods associated with each major group. Consequently, the book is more of a primer or an introduction to freshwater invertebrates, than a field guide. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and general readers."--Choice, September 2011, Vol. 49, No. 01