Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. the Myriapoda, Volume 2

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-90-04-15612-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 2, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 853 g

Reihe: Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology - The Myriapoda

Myriapods are the only major zoological group for which a modern encyclopedic treatment has never been produced. In particular, this was the single major gap in the largest zoological treatise of the XIX century (Grassé’s Traité de Zoologie), whose publication has recently been stopped. The two volumes of “The Myriapoda” fill that gap with an updated treatment in the English language.

Volume II deals with the Diplopoda or millipedes. As in the previous volume, the treatment is articulated in chapters dealing with external and internal morphology, physiology, reproduction, development, distribution, ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy. All currently recognized suprageneric taxa and a very large selection of the genera are considered.

All groups and features are extensively illustrated by line drawings and micrographs and living specimens of representative species of the main groups are presented in color photographs.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Minelli, Alessandro

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Taxonomie und Systematik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1 Diplopoda – An outline of research history, by Alessandro MINELLI
2 Diplopoda – General morphology, by Markus KOCH
3 Diplopoda – Integument, by Slobodan E. MAKAROV
4 Diplopoda – Skeletomuscular system and locomotion, by Markus KOCH
5 Diplopoda – Digestive system, by Carmem Silvia FONTANETTI, Cristina MOREIRA-DE-SOUSA, Tamaris GIMENEZ PINHEIRO, Raphael BASTÃO DE SOUZA & Annelise FRANCISCO
6 Diplopoda – Tracheal system, by Gero HILKEN, Andy SOMBKE, Carsten H. G. MÜLLER & Jörg ROSENBERG
7 Diplopoda – Circulatory system, by Christian S. WIRKNER & Willi E. R. XYLANDER
8 Diplopoda – Nervous and neuroendocrine systems, by Andy SOMBKE & Jörg ROSENBERG
9 Diplopoda – Sensory organs, by Carsten H.G. MÜLLER & Andy SOMBKE
10 Diplopoda – Reproduction, by Alessandro MINELLI & Peter MICHALIK
11 Diplopoda – Development, by Alessandro MINELLI
12 Diplopoda – Ecology, by Jean-François DAVID
13 Diplopoda – Geographical distribution, by Henrik ENGHOFF
14 Diplopoda – Fossils, by Gregory D. EDGECOMBE
15 Diplopoda – Phylogenetic relationships, by Gregory D. EDGECOMBE
16 Diplopoda – Taxonomic overview, by Henrik ENGHOFF, Sergei GOLOVATCH, Megan SHORT, Pavel STOEV & Thomas WESENER
Class DIPLOPODA
Subclass Penicillata
Order Polyxenida
Subclass CHILOGNATHA
Infraclass PENTAZONIA
Superorder LIMACOMORPHA
Order Glomeridesmida
Superorder ONISCOMORPHA
Order Sphaerotheriida
Order Glomerida
Infraclass HELMINTHOMORPHA
Subterclass COLOBOGNATHA
Order Platydesmida
Order Siphonocryptida
Order Siphonophorida
Order Polyzoniida
Subterclass EUGNATHA
Superorder MEROCHAETA
Order Polydesmida
Superorder NEMATOPHORA
Order Chordeumatida
Order Callipodida
Order Stemmiulida
Superorder JULIFORMIA
Order Julida
Order Spirostreptida
Order Spirobolida
Helminthomorpha incertae sedis
Order Siphoniulida
Taxonomic index
Subject index

Über Autor(innen)

Alessandro Minelli, Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, is the author of Biological Systematics (Chapman & Hall, 1993), The Development of Animal Form (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Forms of Becoming (Princeton University Press, 2009). His main research interest is, currently, the evolution of body architecture.