The Myriapoda / Volume 1 / / edited by Alessandro Minelli.

• TeilnehmendeR: Minelli, Alessandro.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology - The Myriapoda 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (546 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- 1 Phylogenetic relationships of Myriapoda / Gregory D. Edgecombe -- 2 The Chilopoda – Introduction -- 3 Chilopoda – General morphology / Alessandro Minelli and Markus Koch -- 4 Chilopoda – Integument and associated organs -- 5 Chilopoda – Musculature and locomotion / Alessandro Minelli -- 6 Chilopoda – Digestive system / Markus Koch , Carsten H. G. Müller , Gero Hilken and Jörg Rosenberg -- 7 Chilopoda – Tracheal system / Gero Hilken , Carsten H. G. Müller , Andy Sombke , Christian S. Wirkner and Jörg Rosenberg -- 8 Chilopoda – Circulatory system / Christian S. Wirkner , Gero Hilken and Jörg Rosenberg -- 9 Chilopoda – Excretory system -- 10 Chilopoda – Endocrine system / Jörg Rosenberg , Carsten H. G. Müller and Gero Hilken -- 11 Chilopoda – Nervous system / Andy Sombke , Jörg Rosenberg and Gero Hilken -- 12 Chilopoda – Sense organs / Carsten H. G. Müller , Andy Sombke , Gero Hilken and Jörg Rosenberg -- 13 Chilopoda – Reproduction / Alessandro Minelli -- 14 Chilopoda – Development / Alessandro Minelli and Andy Sombke -- 15 Chilopoda – Ecology / Karin Voigtländer -- 16 Chilopoda – Geographical distribution / Lucio Bonato and Marzio Zapparoli -- 17 Chilopoda – Phylogeny / Gregory D. Edgecombe -- 18 Chilopoda – Fossil history / Gregory D. Edgecombe -- 19 Chilopoda – Taxonomic overview -- 20 Symphyla / Nikola Szucsich and Ulf Scheller -- 21 Pauropoda / Ulf Scheller -- Taxonomic index -- Subject index -- Plates.