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From: Dr Pamela Burns-Balogh (balogh@balogh.com)
Date: Wed Apr 27 2005 - 09:36:17 PDT

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    Fossilium Catalogus I: Animalia. Pars 139: Lower Cretaceous Ammonites I.
    Perisphinctaceae 1. Himalayitidae, Olcostephanidae, Holcodiscidae,
    Neocomitidae, Oosterellidae. by Jaap Klein. 2005.
    Contents

    INTRODUCTION................................................................
    ...............................................1
    ABBREVIATIONS...............................................................
    ..............................................1
    SUPERFAMILY PERISPHINCTACEAE STEINMANN,
    1890......................................2
    FAMILY HIMALAYITIDAE SPATH,
    1925....................................................................2
    FAMILY OLCOSTEPHANIDAE HAUG,
    1910.............................................................41
    Subfamily SPITICERATINAE SPATH,
    1924..................................................................41
    Subfamily OLCOSTEPHANINAE HAUG,
    1910............................................................71
    FAMILY HOLCODISCIDAE SPATH,
    1923................................................................122
    FAMILY HOLCODISCIDAE GENUS INCERTA
    .....................................................145
    FAMILY NEOCOMITIDAE SALFELD,
    1921.............................................................146
    Subfamily
    SPITIDISCINAE VERMEULEN & THIEULOY,
    1999................................................146
    Subfamily BERRIASELLINAE SPATH,
    1922...............................................................156
    Subfamily NEOCOMITINAE SALFELD, 1921.............................
    ................................231
    Subfamily ENDEMOCERATINAE SCHINDEWOLF,
    1966.........................................340
    FAMILY OOSTERELLIDAE BREISTROFFER,
    1940.................................................380
    REFERENCES..................................................................
    ...............................................386
    INDEX.......................................................................
    ............................................
     x+484 p., paperbound. ISBN 90-5782-000-5; $228.00

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    Cladocera: the genus Daphnia (including Daphniopsis). 2005. by John A.H.
    Benzie
    (= Guides to the Identification of the Microinvertebrates of the Continental
    Waters of the World, volume 21-- volumes 1-20 also available)
    CONTENTS:
    1. INTRODUCTION

    2. MORPHOLOGY
    2.1 Body
    2.2 Head
    2.3 Internal anatomy
    2.4 Postabdomen
    2.5 Ephippium
    2.6 Male
    2.7 Thoracic limbs 1-5

    3. LIFE CYCLE AND POPULATION STRUCTURE
    3.1 Reproduction
    3.2 Population genetic structures
    3.3 Development and population growth

    4. ECOLOGY
    4.1 Physical factors affecting distribution and abundance
    4.2 Biological factors affecting distribution and abundance
    4.3 Feeding
    4.4 Summary

    5. MORPHOLOGICAL VARIATION
    5.1 Cyclomorphosis
    5.2 Hybridization

    6. DETERMINATION OF SPECIES BOUNDARIES
    6.1 Multivariate morphometrics
    6.2 Genetic methods - electrophoresis
    6.3 Genetic methods - DNA analysis

    7. HYBRIDIZATION BETWEEN SPECIES
    7.1 The Daphnia longispina complex
    7.2 The Daphnia pulex complex
    7.3 The Daphnia carinata complex
    7.4 Summary: the nature of hybrid populations in Daphnia

    8. PHYLOGENY
    8.1 The subgenera
    8.2 The genus Daphniopsis subsumed in the genus Daphnia
    8.3 Molecular phylogeny
    9. BIOGEOGRAPHY
    9.1 Patterns of species diversity
    9.2 Species distributions
    9.3 Recent introductions
    9.4 Distribution in relation to phylogeny
    9.5 Dispersal patterns

    10. SPECIATION
    10.1 Colonisation and habitat shift
    10.2 Regional variation and allopatric divergence
    10.3 Speciation by hybridization
    10.4 Summary

    11. SAMPLING AND PRESERVATION
    11.1 Field sampling
    11.2 Preservation

    12. IDENTIFICATION
    12.1 Microscopic examination
    12.2 Dissection

    13. NOMENCLATURAL ISSUES
    13.1 Historical problems 1600's - 1970's
    13.2 Recent problems 1970's - present
    13.3 Status of the subgenera

    14. GENERIC AND SUBGENERIC DIAGNOSES

    15. KEY TO THE GENUS DAPHNIA

    16. SPECIES DESCRIPTIONS

    17. LIST OF CURRENT SPECIES

    18. REFERENCES

    19. TAXONOMIC INDEX

    viii+372 p., 234 plates with more than 1.000 figures, paperbound. ISBN
    90-5782-151-6 $144.00

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    Lobsters, Mud Shrimps and Anomuran Crabs. by Ray W. Ingle & Marit E.
    Christiansen. 2005. This new Synopsis-volume covers those Crustacea Decapoda
    not included in earlier Synopses-volumes 15 (Coastal Shrimps & Prawns) and
    25 (Shallow Water Crabs)- both which are available. viii, 271 p., 209 figs,
    paperbound (SBF 55). ISBN 1-85153-268-4. $106.00

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