A Field Guide to Sea Stars & Other Echinoderms of Galapagos (Galapagos Marine Life Series) (Gala pagos marine life series)

A compact field guide to the commonly encountered echinoderms of the Galapagos Islands, an exotic and coloful group that includes sea stars, brittle stars, sea urchins, heart urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers. With full color illustrations and complete, diagnostic descriptions, this book is intended for visitors and scientists to the Galapagos.

Cleveland P. Hickman, Jr. first visited the Galapagos Islands in 1974 and has been carrying out research on Galapagos marine life since 1989. In lives in Lexington, Virginia where he taught zoology and animal physiology and continues research at Washington & Lee University. He is the author of three textbooks in zoology including Integrated Principles of Zoology, in its 10th edition, and Biology of Animals, in its 7th edition. He received his PhD in comparative physiology from the University of British Columbia.