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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Alessandro Minelli -- Diplopoda — an outline of research history / Alessandro Minelli -- Diplopoda — general morphology / Markus Koch -- Diplopoda — integument / Slobodan E. Makarov -- Diplopoda — skeletomuscular system and locomotion / Markus Koch -- Diplopoda — digestive system / Carmem Silvia Fontanetti , Cristina Moreira-de-Sousa , Tamaris Gimenez Pinheiro , Raphael Bastão de Souza and Annelise Francisco -- Diplopoda — tracheal system / Gero Hilken , Andy Sombke , Carsten H. G. Müller and Jörg Rosenberg -- Diplopoda — circulatory system / Christian S. Wirkner and Willi E. R. Xylander -- Diplopoda — nervous and neuroendocrine systems / Andy Sombke and Jörg Rosenberg -- Diplopoda — sense organs / Carsten H. G. Müller and Andy Sombke -- Diplopoda — reproduction / Alessandro Minelli and Peter Michalik -- Diplopoda — development / Alessandro Minelli -- Diplopoda — ecology / Jean-François David -- Diplopoda — geographical distribution / Henrik Enghoff -- Diplopoda — fossils / Gregory D. Edgecombe -- Diplopoda — phylogenetic relationships / Gregory D. Edgecombe -- Diplopoda — taxonomic overview / Henrik Enghoff , Sergei Golovatch , Megan Short , Pavel Stoev and Thomas Wesener -- Taxonomic index / Alessandro Minelli -- Subject index / Alessandro Minelli -- Colour plates / Alessandro Minelli.