The Biology of Crustacea (ed. Dorothy E. Bliss). Volumes 7 and 8, edited by E. John Vernberg and Winona A. Vernberg: Behavior and Ecology/Environmental Adaptations. 383+383 pp. New York/London: Academic Press 1983. ISBN 0-12-106407-7/106408-5. $ 45.00/49.50
✍ Scribed by H. Caspers
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Volume
- 71
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1434-2944
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✦ Synopsis
A regular series of symposia on oligochaetes has developed since the first meeting in Sidney, R. C. (see review Int. Revue ges. Hydrobiol. 66 (1981): 443). Zoologists, limnologists, and marine biologists attend and discuss their work on the taxonomy, evolution, cytology, physiology, reproduction, population dynamics, community structure, pollution effects, and world-aide distribution of oligochaetes. The next symposium will be held in 1985 in Hamburg. The 36 papers included in this volume cover all the aspects listed above. R. 0. BRINRHURST supports the hypothesis that the Haplotaxida are living descendeuts of the stem forms from which all the terrestrial and aquatir lines of Oligochaeta (Lumbriculida, Haplotaxida, Lumbricida, Tubificida) were derived. C . E ~s l u s analyzes aspects of the phylogeny of the marine Tubificidae, which split early from the Rhyacrodrilinae and evolved into the highly diverse, exclusively marine Phallodrilinae and Limnodriloidinae. Another branch developed into the freshwater group (Telmatodrilinae, Tubificinae and Aulodrilinae). C. LAWG describes oligochaete communities as indicators for eutrophication processes in Lake Lhman and Neuch&tel. P. M. CHAPMAN 8: R. 0. BRINKHURST