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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Earthworms and Their Allies
Frank Evers Beddard
123 pages~2 hr 27 min read24 chapters$4.99
The humble earthworm is stranger and more varied than any gardener guesses. Beddard details its anatomy and way of life, then the wider clan of aquatic, marine, and land worms it belongs to. A compact scientific introduction to a much-overlooked animal. Dig into the quiet, essential world beneath your feet.
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Inside this book
24 chapters
- 1EARTHWORMS AND THEIR ALLIES
- 2PREFACE
- 3CONTENTS
- 4CHAPTER I STRUCTURAL AND SYSTEMATIC
- 5The Anatomy of Earthworms.
- 6The Aquatic Families of Oligochaeta.
- 7CHAPTER II MODE OF LIFE
- 8Aquatic Earthworms.
- 9Marine Species.
- 10Earthworms originally purely aquatic animals.
- 11CHAPTER III THE EXTERNAL FEATURES OF EARTHWORMS AND THEIR RELATION TO HABIT AND ENVIRONMENT
- 12CHAPTER IV SENSE ORGANS AND SENSES OF EARTHWORMS
- 13CHAPTER V RELATIVE FREQUENCY OF EARTHWORMS IN DIFFERENT REGIONS OF THE WORLD
- 14The Range of Genera.
- 15CHAPTER VI PEREGRINE FORMS
- 16CHAPTER VII THE EARTHWORMS OF OCEANIC ISLANDS
- 17CHAPTER VIII MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION AMONG EARTHWORMS
- 18Climate as Affecting Migration.
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