Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 1

Buch | Hardcover

548 Seiten

2011 | vii, 538
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-15611-1 (ISBN)

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"The Myriapoda" is the first comprehensive monograph ever on all aspects of myriapod biology, including external and internal morphology, physiology, reproduction, development, distribution, ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy. It is thus of major interest for all zoologists and soil biologists.

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 I opens with an introductory treatment of myriapod affinities and phylogeny. The following chapters are mostly devoted to the Chilopoda or centipedes, extensively treated from the point of view of external and internal morphology, physiology, reproduction, development, distribution, ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy. All currently recognized suprageneric and generic taxa are considered. Additional chapters deal with the two smaller myriapod classes, the Symphyla and the Pauropoda.

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.

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.

Preface
1 Phylogenetic relationships of Myriapoda, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE
2 The Chilopoda – Introduction
Diagnosis, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI
History of research, by GERO HILKEN, ALESSANDRO MINELLI, CARSTEN H.
G. MÜLLER, JÖRG ROSENBERG, ANDY SOMBKE & CHRISTIAN S.
WIRKNER
3 Chilopoda – General morphology, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI with a section
by MARKUS KOCH
4 Chilopoda – Integument and associated organs
Integument and cuticle, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER &
GERO HILKEN
Solitary epidermal glands, by CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER, JÖRG ROSENBERG
& GERO HILKEN
Aggregated and compound epidermal glands, by JÖRG ROSENBERG,
CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER & GERO HILKEN
Coxal and anal organs, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER &
GERO HILKEN
Bioluminescence, by GERO HILKEN, JÖRG ROSENBERG & CARSTEN H. G.
MÜLLER
5 Chilopoda – Musculature and locomotion, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI
6 Chilopoda – Digestive system, by MARKUS KOCH, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER,
GERO HILKEN & JÖRG ROSENBERG
7 Chilopoda – Tracheal system, by GERO HILKEN, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER,
ANDY SOMBKE, CHRISTIAN S. WIRKNER &JÖRG ROSENBERG
8 Chilopoda – Circulatory system, by CHRISTIAN S. WIRKNER, GERO HILKEN
& JÖRG ROSENBERG
9 Chilopoda – Excretory system
Main excretory organs, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, ANDY SOMBKE & GERO
HILKEN
The maxillary organ of the Notostigmophora, by GERO HILKEN, JÖRG
ROSENBERG & CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER
Nephrocytes, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER & GERO
HILKEN
10 Chilopoda – Endocrine system, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G.
MÜLLER & GERO HILKEN
11 Chilopoda – Nervous system, by ANDY SOMBKE, JÖRG ROSENBERG & GERO
HILKEN
12 Chilopoda – Sense organs, by CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER, ANDY SOMBKE,
GERO HILKEN & JÖRG ROSENBERG
13 Chilopoda – Reproduction, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI
14 Chilopoda – Development, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI with a section by
ANDY SOMBKE
15 Chilopoda – Ecology, by KARIN VOIGTLÄNDER
16 Chilopoda – Geographical distribution, by LUCIO BONATO & MARZIO
ZAPPAROLI
17 Chilopoda – Phylogeny, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE
18 Chilopoda – Fossil history, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE
19 Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview
Scutigeromorpha, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE
Lithobiomorpha, by MARZIO ZAPPAROLI & GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE
Craterostigmomorpha, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE
Scolopendromorpha, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE &LUCIO BONATO
Geophilomorpha, by LUCIO BONATO
20 Symphyla, by NIKOLA SZUCSICH & ULF SCHELLER
21 Pauropoda, by ULF SCHELLER
Taxonomic index
Subject index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	21.3.2011
Reihe/Serie	Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology - The Myriapoda ; 1
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
ISBN-10	90-04-15611-9 / 9004156119
ISBN-13	978-90-04-15611-1 / 9789004156111
Zustand	Neuware