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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.
Alessandro Minelli, Professor of Zoology at the University of Padova, is the author of Biological Systematics (Chapman & Hall, 1993), The Development of Animal Form (Cambridge University Press, 2003), Perspectives in Animal Phylogeny and Evolution (Oxford University Press, 2009) and Forms of Becoming (Princeton University Press, 2009). His main research interest is, currently, the evolution of body architecture.
Preface1 Phylogenetic relationships of Myriapoda, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE2 The Chilopoda – IntroductionDiagnosis, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI History of research, by GERO HILKEN, ALESSANDRO MINELLI, CARSTEN H.G. MÜLLER, JÖRG ROSENBERG, ANDY SOMBKE & CHRISTIAN S.WIRKNER3 Chilopoda – General morphology, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI with a sectionby MARKUS KOCH4 Chilopoda – Integument and associated organsIntegument and cuticle, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER &GERO HILKENSolitary epidermal glands, by CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER, JÖRG ROSENBERG& GERO HILKENAggregated and compound epidermal glands, by JÖRG ROSENBERG,CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER & GERO HILKENCoxal and anal organs, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER &GERO HILKENBioluminescence, by GERO HILKEN, JÖRG ROSENBERG & CARSTEN H. G.MÜLLER5 Chilopoda – Musculature and locomotion, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI6 Chilopoda – Digestive system, by MARKUS KOCH, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER,GERO HILKEN & JÖRG ROSENBERG7 Chilopoda – Tracheal system, by GERO HILKEN, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER,ANDY SOMBKE, CHRISTIAN S. WIRKNER &JÖRG ROSENBERG8 Chilopoda – Circulatory system, by CHRISTIAN S. WIRKNER, GERO HILKEN& JÖRG ROSENBERG9 Chilopoda – Excretory systemMain excretory organs, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, ANDY SOMBKE & GEROHILKENThe maxillary organ of the Notostigmophora, by GERO HILKEN, JÖRGROSENBERG & CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLERNephrocytes, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER & GEROHILKEN10 Chilopoda – Endocrine system, by JÖRG ROSENBERG, CARSTEN H. G.MÜLLER & GERO HILKEN11 Chilopoda – Nervous system, by ANDY SOMBKE, JÖRG ROSENBERG & GEROHILKEN12 Chilopoda – Sense organs, by CARSTEN H. G. MÜLLER, ANDY SOMBKE,GERO HILKEN & JÖRG ROSENBERG13 Chilopoda – Reproduction, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI14 Chilopoda – Development, by ALESSANDRO MINELLI with a section byANDY SOMBKE15 Chilopoda – Ecology, by KARIN VOIGTLÄNDER16 Chilopoda – Geographical distribution, by LUCIO BONATO & MARZIOZAPPAROLI17 Chilopoda – Phylogeny, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE18 Chilopoda – Fossil history, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE19 Chilopoda – Taxonomic overviewScutigeromorpha, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBELithobiomorpha, by MARZIO ZAPPAROLI & GREGORY D. EDGECOMBECraterostigmomorpha, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBEScolopendromorpha, by GREGORY D. EDGECOMBE &LUCIO BONATOGeophilomorpha, by LUCIO BONATO20 Symphyla, by NIKOLA SZUCSICH & ULF SCHELLER21 Pauropoda, by ULF SCHELLERTaxonomic indexSubject index