| Series | Field Studies Council AIDGAP Guides |
| Author | John Crothers |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 9781851532001 |
| Publisher | Field Studies Council Publications |
| Pages | 177 |
| Format | Paperback |
| Images | Line drawings |
| Year published | 1997 |
FSC Marine invertebrates AIDGAP is an identification guide to intertidal and shallow water habitats around Britain and Ireland. Identification goes to at least family level.
The guide is a bridge between popular colour identification guides and more specialist works. Users move through a series of dichotomous keys. But the authors have avoided specialist terminology whenever possible.
You don’t need any special equipment beyond a net, white tray and hand lens. The author has spent many years of leading fieldwork, so has chosen characters visible on living specimens. These communities include a much wider range of animal types than will be encountered in any other habitat.
This guide is part of the FSC’s AIDGAP series (Aids to Identification in Difficult Groups of Animals and Plants). Our AIDGAP guides are accessible identification keys, suitable for non-specialists from age 16+. As with all guides in the series, the Marine invertebrates AIDGAP underwent extensive testing before publication, by beginners and specialists alike. The author has revised this, the first published version, in the light of the testers’ experience.
Accurate identification of specimens is an important part of biological fieldwork. Since 1976, the AIDGAP project has published over 40 straightforward and clearly written identification keys to many different groups of plants, animals and other taxa. In many cases the AIDGAP volume is the only non-technical work covering the group.
