4th Edition
by D. Christopher Rogers (Editor), James H. Thorp (Editor)
Thorp and Covich's Freshwater Invertebrates: Keys to Palaearctic Fauna, Fourth Edition,
is part of a multivolume series covering inland water invertebrates of
the world that began with Vol. I: Ecology and General Biology (2015),
then Vol. II (2016) Keys to Nearctic Fauna, and finally in Vol. III
(2018) Keys to Neotropical Hexapoda (insects and springtails). It now
continues with identification keys for Palearctic invertebrates in Vol.
IV. Two other volumes currently in development focus on general
invertebrates of the Neotropical/Antarctic, and Australasian Bioregions.
Other volumes in the early planning stages include Afrotropical and
Oriental/Oceanic Bioregions. All volumes are designed for multiple uses
and levels of expertise by professionals in universities, government
agencies and private companies, as well as by graduate and undergraduate
students.
- Provides identification keys for inland water
(fresh to saline) invertebrates of the Palearctic Zoogeographic Region,
from Iceland to Russia, and from the northern Pole region to Saharan
Africa in the west, through the Middle East, and to the central China
and Japan in the east
- Presents identification keys for aquatic
invertebrates to the genus or species level for many groups and to
family for Hexapoda, with the keys progressing from higher to lower
taxonomic levels
- Includes a general introduction and sections
on limitations, terminology and morphology, material preparation and
preservation and references
