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By: Kearn, Graham C
Price: £138.00
Inventory number: 002768
ISBN: 140202925X
Condition: New<br>
2004. 26cm. Pp.240. 20 photos & figures. Hardbound.Many different kinds of animals have adopted a parasitic life style on the skin and gills of marine and freshwater fishes, including protozoans, flatworms, leeches, a range of crustaceans and even some vertebrates (lampreys). There is a parasitic barnacle, described first in the 19th century by Charles Darwin, fish lice that change sex and bivalve molluscs parasitic only when young.Leeches, Lice and Lampreys explores for the first time in one volume, the remarkable biology of these little known and frequently bizarre animals. T... View more info
