Invertebrate Zoology Textbooks

Listed below are a few of the most commonly used invertebrate zoology textbooks and a few that are no longer used because they are out-of-print. If you get this far and have comments on any of the books, particularly as to their accuracy, suitability, etc., please forward those comments to me and I will append them to the listed texts.


Barington, E. J. W. 1967. Invertebrate Structure and Function. Houghton Mifflin, Boston.

Barnes, R. S. K., P. Calow and P. J. Olive. 1993. The invertebrates: a new synthesis, 2nd ed. Blackwell Scientific Publications, New York.

Bayer, Frederick M. and Harding B. Owre. 1968. The Free-living lower invertebrates. Macmillian, New York.

Brusca, Richard C. and Gary J. Brusca. 1990. Invertebrates. Sinauer Associations, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Buchsbaum, Ralph, Mildred Buchsbaum, John Pearse, and Vicki Pearse. 1987. Animals without backbones, 3rd ed. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Kozloff, Eugene. 1990. Invertebrates. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Lutz, Paul E. 1986. Invertebrate Zoology. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Co, Menlo Park, California.

Megalitsch, Paul A. and Frederick R. Schram. 1991. Invertebrate Zoology, 3rd edition. New York: Oxford.

Pease, Vicki, John Pearse, Mildred Buchsbaum and Ralph Buchsbaum. 1987. Living Invertebrates. Blackwell Sci. PUb. and Boxwood Press. 848 pp.

Pechenik, Jan A. 1999. Biology of the Invertebrates, 4th. ed. McGraw-Hill, NY.

Ruppert, Edward E. and Robert D. Barnes. 1994. Invertebrate zoology, 6th ed. Saunders College Publishing, Philadelphia.

Note: The above is a partial listing. More will be added as time progresses.

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