Treatise on zoology-- anatomy, taxonomy, biology. / Volume 2, : The Myriapoda / / edited by Alessandro Minelli.

• Superior document: Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology - The Myriapoda
• TeilnehmendeR: Minelli, Alessandro.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2014.
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology - The Myriapoda 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Notes: Intended to fill the gap in Pierre-Paul Grassé's Traité de zoologie, which did not cover Myriapoda. Cf. preface.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Diplopoda — an outline of research history /; Diplopoda — general morphology /; Diplopoda — integument /; Diplopoda — skeletomuscular system and locomotion /; Diplopoda — digestive system /; Diplopoda — tracheal system /; Diplopoda — circulatory system /; Diplopoda — nervous and neuroendocrine systems /; Diplopoda — sense organs /; Diplopoda — reproduction /; Diplopoda — development /; Diplopoda — ecology /; Diplopoda — geographical distribution /; Diplopoda — fossils /; Diplopoda — phylogenetic relationships /; Diplopoda — taxonomic overview /; Taxonomic index /; Subject index /; Colour plates /; Traité de zoologie.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• ISBN: 9004188274
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Alessandro Minelli.

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 II deals with the Diplopoda or millipedes. As in the previous volume, the treatment is articulated in chapters dealing with external and internal morphology, physiology, reproduction, development, distribution, ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy. All currently recognized suprageneric taxa and a very large selection of the genera are considered. 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.