Marine Resource Mapping: An Introductory Manual. Eds. M. J. A. Butler, C. Leblanc, J. A. Belbin and J. L. Macneill = FAO Fisheries Technical Paper 274.—256 pp., figs. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations 1987. ISBN 92-5-102544-4

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• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 106 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1434-2944
• DOI: 10.1002/iroh.19890740214

✦ Synopsis

The book is introduced by chapters on morphology, movement. behaviour, ecology. and methods of investiyntion of naked amoeba. The major part contains keys t o genera and species of Gymnilmoebia, Schizopyrenida, Pelobionticla, Aconchulinia, Athalamida, and Mastigamoebidae found in the Netherlands. HOOCENRAAD and D E G R O O T published the first Dut,ch rhizopoct fama in 1940.

In the present founa more t,han hdf of the lobose species mentioned (about 50) have been described after 1Y40 and all Filosea, C:raniiloretictilostta :is well as RI;iut,igi~moebiclAe (about. 20) before 1940. demonstrating t>he t,nxonomie sit,u;ttion in these groups. All species dealt with in tjhis pnhliciLtiuii arc figured in instructive drawings. The book is an interest,ing enrichment of the literatim on a1noeb:ae.