Aquatic Oligochaetes

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiv

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2. Historical reviews

   1. Past symposium attendees in the group photographs

      • Stuart R. Gelder, Susan M. Peterson

      Pages 1-7

   2. Retrospect and Prospect: reflections on forty years of study of aquatic oligochaetes

      • Ralph O. Brinkhurst

      Pages 9-19

3. Taxonomy and geographic distribution

   1. Zoogeography of branchiobdellidans (Annelida) and temnocephalidans (Platyhelminthes) ectosymbiotic on freshwater crustaceans, and their reactions to one another in vitro

      • Stuart R. Gelder

      Pages 21-31

   2. Studies on the aquatic oligochaete fauna in Lake Biwa, central Japan. II. Records and taxonomic remarks of nine species

      • Akifumi Ohtaka, Machiko Nishino

      Pages 33-47

   3. Monopylephorus camachoi nov. sp., a new rhyacodriline worm (Tubificidae: Clitellata) from the Coiba Island, on the east Pacific Coast of Panama

      • Pilar Rodriguez

      Pages 49-55

   4. Records of Enchytraeidae (Clitellata) from the People’s Republic of China

      • Hongzhu Wang, Zhicai Xie, Yanling Liang

      Pages 57-66

   5. Distribution of freshwater oligochaetes in the west and east coastal regions of the North Pacific Ocean

      • Tarmo Timm

      Pages 67-81

4. Systematics and evolution

   1. Enzymatic variability in sympatric species of Tubifex (Clitellata: Tubificidae)

      • Andreina Paoletti Di Chiara, Manuela Pagani, Barbara Leoni

      Pages 83-86

   2. Terrestrial polychaetes — models for the evolution of the Clitellata (Annelida)?

      • Günter Purschke

      Pages 87-99

5. Distribution, abundance and habitats

   1. Clitellate diversity in Nationalstadsparken, an urban national park in Stockholm, Sweden

      • Christer Erséus, Reinmar Grimm, Brenda Healy, Stefan Lundberg, Emilia Rota, Tarmo Timm

      Pages 101-110

   2. Finding enchytraeid oligochaetes (Clitellata) in hot climates: species occurrence on the shores of Bermuda

      • Brenda Healy, Kathryn A. Coates

      Pages 111-117

   3. Spatial distribution of oligochaetes (Clitellata) in the tidal freshwater and brackish parts of the Schelde estuary (Belgium)

      • J. Seys, M. Vincx, P. Meire

      Pages 119-132

   4. Distribution and dispersal capacity of the Ponto-Caspian tubificid oligochaete Potamothrix heuscheri (Bretscher, 1900) in Scandinavia

      • Göran Milbrink

      Pages 133-142

   5. Oligochaeta and Aphanoneura in two Northern German hardwater lakes of different trophic state

      • Rut Collado, Peter Kasprzak, Rüdiger M. Schmelz

      Pages 143-148

   6. Micro-distribution of oligochaetes in a soft-bottomed lowland stream (Elsbeek; The Netherlands)

      • Piet F. M. Verdonschot

      Pages 149-163

   7. Oligochaeta from the abyssal zone of Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia)

      • Patrick Martin, Koen Martens, Boudewijn Goddeeris

      Pages 165-174

   8. Oligochaetes of Karavasta Lagoon (Albania). Preliminary results

      • S. Casellato

      Pages 175-182

6. Population dynamics

   1. A comparison among different population models for Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae)

      • Andrea Pasteris, Martina Vecchi, Giuliano Bonomi

      Pages 183-189

   2. Assessment of secondary production of naididae (Oligochaeta): an example from a North German lake

      • Boris Löhlein

      Pages 191-198

The book contains papers on the biology of aquatic oligochaetes and some related groups. They cover a wide range of topics including phylogeny, taxonomy, geographic distribution, freshwater and marine ecology, population dynamics, histology and ultrastructure, physiology and behaviour. The wide scope is in line with recent trends in annelid research with less emphasis on pollution studies and faunistics and a renewed interest in experimental biology using new techniques.

• development
• ecology
• evolution
• phylogeny
• physiology

`The final paper, a review of the current status phylogeny of clitellates by the authority R.O. Brinkhurst, is also worth mentioning. Clearly, the volume must be highly recommended to any scientific library dealing with invertebrate systematics.'
Spixiana, 27:1

• Zoological Department, University College, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

  B. M. Healy

• National Water Research Institute, Burlington, Canada

  T. B. Reynoldson

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