The Conversation

Around 9,000 species have already gone extinct in Australia and we’ll likely lose another this week – new study

More than 95% of Australian animals are invertebrates (animals without backbones – spiders, snails, insects, crabs, worms and others). There are at least 300,000 species of invertebrate in Australia.
The Conversation

They might not have a spine, but invertebrates are the backbone of our ecosystems. Let’s help them out

Many of Australia’s natural places are in a poor state. While important work is being done to protect particular species, we must also take a broader approach to returning entire ecosystems to their ...
The Guardian

‘Overlooked’: 14,000 invertebrate species lost habitat in Black Summer bushfires, study finds

Scientists say the animals are vital to ecosystem and true number affected is probably far higher More than 14,000 species of invertebrate lost habitat during Australia’s 2019-20 bushfires, according ...
Nature

Morphology of Invertebrate Types

THIS volume is divided into twenty-eight chapters, each dealing with one type. Each chapter consists of a description of the systems of organs of a type and a series of instructions to be followed in ...