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  overviews of marine phyla, 174–84

  Tremoctopus violaceus (blanket octopus), 118 fig., 120

  trochophores, 181

  Troll, Ray, 171

  tube anemones, 53

  tubeworms, 54, 180, 181

  in glass and watercolor, 68 fig., 70–71, 76 fig., 84 fig.

  See also feather duster worms; specific taxa

  tuna, 160

  Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea (Verne), 119

  urochordates, 187–89, 189 fig.

  Urticina crassicornis (Christmas anemone), 36, 40

  USS Ronald Reagan, 46

  variable neon slug (Nembrotha kubaryana), 94 fig.

  Velella velella (by-the-wind sailor), 56, 57 fig., 60, 101, 154

  venomous animals, 103

  anemones as, 25–26

  jellyfish as, 45–46, 51, 54–56, 60–61, 62, 101

  nudibranchs as, 90, 93, 104

  as prey, 10, 100–101, 103–4, 106–7, 182

  worms as, 74

  Venus girdle ctenophore (Cestum veneris), 51

  Verne, Jules, 119

  Vibrio fischeri, 126–27

  Wakatobi National Park (Indonesia), 89, 90, 91–92

  See also Indonesian dives

  Wallace, Alfred Russel, 91

  Wallace Line, 91–92

  Ware, Mary, 155

  warming, 33, 160

  ocean warming, 28–29, 33–34, 157, 158, 160, 162–63

  See also climate change impacts; ocean acidification

  watercolors and prints, 3

  other artists’ influences on Blaschkas, 3, 6–8, 21, 57–61, 94–95

  See also Blaschka watercolors

  whales, 160

  White, Andrew Dixon, 3

  Williams, R., 175

  Woodin, Sally, 73, 81

  World Bank, 33

  worms, 68–86, 170 fig., 178–81, 190

  biology and behavior, 71–72, 73, 74, 77–79, 80–81, 178–79, 180–81

  diversity and value of, 77, 83–84, 180–81

  in glass, 68 fig., 70–71, 72–73, 73 fig., 76 fig., 84 fig., 173, 178–80, 179 fig., 180 fig.

  in search of Blaschka matches, 69–70, 75–79, 84 fig., 85–86

  nematodes, 185, 190

  threats and conservation status, 81–83, 159

  in watercolor, 9–10, 70, 72, 78 fig., 81, 84 fig.

  Wurtz, Maurizio, 158

  Yoon, Carol, 2, 3

  zebra slug (Felimare picta), 153, 154 fig.

  Zimmermann, Carolina, 5

  ORGANISMS AND ENVIRONMENTS

  Harry W. Greene, Consulting Editor

  1. The View from Bald Hill: Thirty Years in an Arizona Grassland, by Carl E. Bock and Jane H. Bock

  2. Tupai: A Field Study of Bornean Treeshrews, by Louise H. Emmons

  3. Singing the Turtles to Sea: The Comcáac (Seri) Art and Science of Reptiles, by Gary Paul Nabhan

  4. Amphibians and Reptiles of Baja California, Including Its Pacific Islands and the Islands in the Sea of Cortés, by L. Lee Grismer

  5. Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity, by Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt

  6. American Bison: A Natural History, by Dale F. Lott

  7. A Bat Man in the Tropics: Chasing El Duende, by Theodore H. Fleming

  8. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America, by Paul S. Martin

  9. Biology of Gila Monsters and Beaded Lizards, by Daniel D. Beck

  10. Lizards in the Evolutionary Tree, by Jonathan B. Losos

  11. Grass: In Search of Human Habitat, by Joe C. Truett

  12. Evolution’s Wedge: Competition and the Origins of Diversity, by David W. Pfennig and Karin S. Pfennig

  13. A Sea of Glass: Searching for the Blaschkas’ Fragile Legacy in an Ocean at Risk, by Drew Harvell