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Invertebrate Zoology Links

Information on the internet is appealing because it is so accessible, but remember that the Internet is not peer-reviewed or edited. The quality and reliability of the information is highly variable.  The sources of the information are often not cited, and the sites themselves may come and go.  All that said, there are some wonderful resources out there.  I just hope that they are still there next semester!  Please let me know if you find any "dead links".

Google and other search engines nowadays have made this kind of list nearly obsolete- use them.

• Invertebrate Zoology at the Australian National Museum

• Invertebrates at the Smithsonian
• Marine Inverts at Woods Hole MBL
• Introduction to Cladistics
• Excellent reef photos
• Freshwater benthic ecology
• McMurdo Sound underwater field guide- images
• Endangered invertebrates of North America
• Micrographia- micrographs
• CalPhotos - high-resolution photos of invertebrates
• Kentucky fossil photos

Parasitology

• Pictorial Atlas of Medical Parasitology
• Parasites at the CDC (National Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
• Parasitic disease links at Karolinska Institute

• Giardia lamblia at Wikipedia

• Entamoeba homepage
• Toxoplasma gondii
• Medical Protozoology at Tulane University
• The Euglenoid project
• Harmful algae page
• Pfeisteria.org
• Cryptosporidium at Kansas State
• Resources in Protistology
• Protista links at Nearctica.com
• Foraminifera Gallery
• Micrographia
• Protist Information Server at Hosei University

• Burgess Shale  most famous Cambrian fossil locality

• Hooper Paleontological Museum
• Vendian Period at UCMP Berkeley
• Anomalocaris home page- home of the giant Cambrian predator
• Marble Mountains near Cadiz, CA- another famous mid-Cambrian fossil locality

• Sponges at UMCB Berkeley

• Sponges at Nearctica
• Sponge reef project

• JelliesZone by Dave Wrobel

• Cnidaria Home Page links page at University of California Irvine
• Freshwater jellyfish (Craspedecusta links)
• Jellyfish Envenomation

• Introduction to the Platyhelminthes UCMP Berkeley

• Phylogeny of Platyhelminthes at University of Maine
• Animal Diversity Web University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
• Schistosomiasis at TDR
• hydatidosis AHD
• tapeworm BS on the internet- beware the quacks
• Marine flatworms of the world - amazing polyclads - good discussion of phylogeny 

• Rotifera at UCMP Berkeley

• Rotifer collection at the ACNS  illustrated collection
• Introduction to Bdelloid rotifers
• Excellent rotifer photos - Micscape article 
• Wonderfully wierd world of rotifers- by Wim van Egmond
• virginal rotifers
• no transposons in Bdelloid rotifers?

Nematoda

• Plant & Insect parasitic nematodes at University of Nebraska- good resource

• Parasitic Nematoda and Schistosomiasis in China
• Carter Center Dracunculis eradication program
• Save the Guinea Worm Foundation Makes you think!
• Nematodes for preventing inflammatory bowel disease
• Onchocerciasis

Nematomorpha

• Horsehair Worms  

    General

• Molluscs and Man The "Popular Science" of molluscs- a big, enthusiastic site

• Ice Age Molluscs- use of molluscs, mainly land snails, in archaeology & palaeoclimatology

    Shell collections/collecting

• Conchologists of America  Info about molluscs from shell collector's perspective

• www.malakos.com Check out his land snail photos from Cuba & Jamaica

    Gastropods

• Sea Slug Forum- incredible photos and information about an amazing group

• Cone Shell Conotoxins  More
• The Apple Snail (Pomacea) pages

     Bivalvia

• Unio Gallery freshwater bivalves images and links

• hydrothermal vent communities

     Cephalopods

• The Cephalopod Page

• Cephalopoda on the Tree of Life

• Cephalopods at Smithsonian

• Giant squid

• Annelid resources
• INHS Center for Annelida Resources mostly freshwater-oriented
• introduced worms
• earthworm invasion
• Leeches as drug sources
• Leeches for microsurgery  another supplier
• Some leech literature

   Trilobita

• A guide to the orders of trilobites- and much more.  Excellent site.

   Chelicerata

• Spider links at Bellarmine

• Arachnology Home Page

• USGS horseshoe crab population site

• ERDG Limulus info

• Acari: Mites and ticks, a virtual introduction 

• Scorpion links

• Social spiders article

• International Association of Astacology

• Copepods at the Smithsonian
• The crayfish industry in North America, by Jay Huner
• The Crayfish- T. H. Huxley
• Crayfish home page - systematics etc.
• crayfish plague
• Blue crab advisory council
• Artemia International.com.  
• Cladoceran website at University of Guelph
• Crustacean Gallery at Australian National Museum

   Myriapoda

• Introduction to the Myriapoda at UCMP Berkeley
• Centipedes at the Australian Museum
• Millipede systematics
• International Center of Myriapodology
• Studies in Arthropod evolution at the University of Maryland

   Insecta

• Entomology at the University of Nebraska

• Entomology at University of Arkansas

• Myrmecos.net (excellent insect photos)

• Moths of North America

• Butterflies of North America

Lophorates

   Bryozoa

• Beth Okamura's home page

• Moss animals invade

   Brachiopoda

• Brachiopods - Palaeos website

• Kansas brachiopods at GeoKansas

Echinodermata

• Echinoderms at Cal Academy of Sciences

• Commercial urchin catch - Fisheries Canada

• Ophiuroidea page

• Mississippian Fossils of Missouri

Chordata

• Dolex exhibit- pictures of early chordate fossils

• Tunicates extraordinaire on Micscape

• Pelagic tunicates at Jellieszone

• Appendicularians at Woods Hole

• http://www.eeescience.utoledo.edu/Faculty/Neher/
• billie swalla
• chris cameron