These are extracts of the latest review of Klaus Rohde (editor): Marine Parasitology, CSIRO Publishing Melbourne and CABI Oxford (2005), published in Quarterly Review of Biology 82 (3), 293, September 2007. For previous reviews click here and here.

” The editor of this beautifully composed, comprehensive book is well known for his volume, Ecology of Marine Parasites: An Introduction to Marine Parasitology (1993. Second Edition. Wallingford (UK): CAB International). The present work has an array of 75 carefully selected international contributors, but otherwise has a format similar to Rohde’s 1993 treatise.

The book is extremely well edited with line drawings and photographs of high quality, and with informative tables.

This volume will be useful not only to those involved in marine biological research, but to biologists in general who wish to add another dimension to their backgrounds. Rohde’s work contains a plethora of zoological principles and evolutionarily interesting biological relationships for anyone who desires to add some exciting features to their teaching.”

The reviewer, John McDermott, is well known for his work on various aspects of marine biology.

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