Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology. The Myriapoda, Volume 2

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 Diplopoda – An outline of research history, by Alessandro MINELLI2 Diplopoda – General morphology, by Markus KOCH3 Diplopoda – Integument, by Slobodan E. MAKAROV4 Diplopoda – Skeletomuscular system and locomotion, by Markus KOCH5 Diplopoda – Digestive system, by Carmem Silvia FONTANETTI, Cristina MOREIRA-DE-SOUSA, Tamaris GIMENEZ PINHEIRO, Raphael BASTÃO DE SOUZA & Annelise FRANCISCO6 Diplopoda – Tracheal system, by Gero HILKEN, Andy SOMBKE, Carsten H. G. MÜLLER & Jörg ROSENBERG7 Diplopoda – Circulatory system, by Christian S. WIRKNER & Willi E. R. XYLANDER8 Diplopoda – Nervous and neuroendocrine systems, by Andy SOMBKE & Jörg ROSENBERG9 Diplopoda – Sensory organs, by Carsten H.G. MÜLLER & Andy SOMBKE10 Diplopoda – Reproduction, by Alessandro MINELLI & Peter MICHALIK11 Diplopoda – Development, by Alessandro MINELLI12 Diplopoda – Ecology, by Jean-François DAVID13 Diplopoda – Geographical distribution, by Henrik ENGHOFF14 Diplopoda – Fossils, by Gregory D. EDGECOMBE15 Diplopoda – Phylogenetic relationships, by Gregory D. EDGECOMBE16 Diplopoda – Taxonomic overview, by Henrik ENGHOFF, Sergei GOLOVATCH, Megan SHORT, Pavel STOEV & Thomas WESENERClass DIPLOPODASubclass Penicillata Order PolyxenidaSubclass CHILOGNATHAInfraclass PENTAZONIASuperorder LIMACOMORPHAOrder Glomeridesmida Superorder ONISCOMORPHAOrder Sphaerotheriida Order GlomeridaInfraclass HELMINTHOMORPHASubterclass COLOBOGNATHAOrder PlatydesmidaOrder SiphonocryptidaOrder SiphonophoridaOrder PolyzoniidaSubterclass EUGNATHASuperorder MEROCHAETAOrder PolydesmidaSuperorder NEMATOPHORAOrder ChordeumatidaOrder CallipodidaOrder StemmiulidaSuperorder JULIFORMIAOrder Julida Order Spirostreptida Order SpirobolidaHelminthomorpha incertae sedisOrder SiphoniulidaTaxonomic indexSubject index

A section of sixteen color plates completes the picture of the external morphology of millipedes and gives an account of their amazing mega-diversity. The book is well illustrated with near 300 light, TEM and SEM micrographs and line drawings. Near 15 tables summarize the leading information, including a final large table giving an overview of the suprageneric millipede taxa. Each of the [...] chapters is a deep and updated review, fully referenced with a list of references at the end (80 pages in all, about 1,600 titles). All the co-authors are renowned experts, morphologists, ecologists, taxonomists and biogeographers, leading specialists on the topics they discuss. To conclude, coupled with the first volume of the monograph, this book is an excellent tool of reference not only for myriapodologists, but also for those who are interested in the biology, ecology and evolution of soil arthropods and soil biology in general. We are, therefore, grateful to Sandro Minelli for finally completing his editorial project, planned long time ago, of an updated treatise on Myriapoda (as he tell us in the preface of the first volume), thus filling a nearly century-long gap in the modern zoological literature about this intriguing group of arthropods.Marzio Zapparoli, in: Fragmenta entomologica, 48 (1): 87-88 (2016).