Publisher's Synopsis
This collection contains over 20 review papers by the world's foremost research workers into hydroids and their medusae, or jellyfish, stages. The papers were originally presented at the first ever international conference on hydrozoan biology, and for this volume the authors have included overviews of their special research areas and complete bibliographies of their work. It is therefore a useful reference to new methodologies and current research into the systematics, ecology, and evolution of these marine animals.;Cnidaria (Coelenterata) workers, university libraries, evolutionists, ecologists, taxonomists, systematists and marine biologists will find these papers of interest.
