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 | | AN INTRODUCTION TO THE AQUATIC INSECTS OF NORTH AMERICA by MERRITT RICHARD, CUMMINS KENNETH, BERG MARTIN B, ADLER PETER H, ALLEN MINDY, BATZER DAROLD P, BLAND ROGER, BUCHWALTER DAVID, BURIAN STEVEN K ISBN-10: 9780757541285 ISBN-10: 0-7575-4128-3 ISBN-13: 9780757541285 ISBN-13: 978-0-7575-4128-5 Paperback 2007-08-30 Kendall Hunt Publishing Find Lowest Price |
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4th Edition M&C Updates seem to have all been fixed, the new color pics are great, especially to show trichop case diversity. been a long time coming, this edition...well done! | ||
Aquatic Entomology Essential This book isn't perfect, but the keys are useful and the ecology information is good. If you are interested in aquatic entomology in North America, you are going to buy this book eventually. | ||
Editors should have paid more attention to details Unfortunately, Merritt, Cummins and Berg did not pay close enough attention to the details of this 4th edition. There are numerous mistakes and revisions that are not correct. They lifted whole sections from the 3rd edition and put them into new pages without changing the page numbers the keys direct you to. The Coleoptera section has too many changes and uses outdated or incorrect terminology. The best part is the new color photos at the beginning, even though they were not used in the keys themselves. Unfortunately there are mistakes in the labeling of some of the photos. Maybe this edition was put out too soon. Hopefully a correction edition will come out soon. | ||
Nothing else like it The 4th edition of an Introduction to the Aquatic Insects of North America is a great upgrade from the 3rd edition. There is nothing else out there that compares to this book. That being said, there are a number of errors in this book. There are couplets that take you to the wrong place. It is especially prevalent in the Hemiptera family key where it sends you to the Odonata section for the genus keys. It seems like the section was lifted from the 3rd edition and pasted in this one without updated the page numbers. All in all a great book, just needed a better review before being released. | ||
A taxonomist's bible This is the one book for every aquatic insect taxonomist. Any book like this needs constant updating and the editors do this very well. There is no other taxonomic document as comprehensive as this one for North American Insects.The drawings are a real help in the identification of aquatic insects. | ||