Histological studies of the central nervous system of invertebrates using methyleneblue and silver-staining techniques, alone or in conjunction with degeneration experiments, have provided a considerable amount of information about neuronal pathways. The use of electrophysiological methods, however, makes it easier to trace the path of individual neurones over long distances and can be especial...

Two new sacoglossan species, belonging to the genus Ercolania Trinchese, 1872 (Ercolania annelyleorum sp. nov.) and the genus Elysia Risso, 1818 (Elysia asbecki sp. nov.) are described from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia. Anatomy of both species was reconstructed by analyzing histological serial sections. Radula morphology was investigated by using light microscopy and scanning el...

I . An account will be given of the anatomy of the blood-system of Pomatoceros triqueter, and of comparative observations on the following serpulids: Serpula vermicularis, S. lo-biancoi, Hydroides norvegica, Vermiliopsis infundibulum, Salmacina incrustans, Protula intestinum, P. tubularia, Apomatus ampulliferus, A. similis, Spirorbis militaris, and S. corrugatus. 2. In all species there is a ce...

Dinophilidae (e.g., Dinophilus O. Schmidt, 1848) is a typical meiofaunal polychaete taxon with a seemingly simple organisation, e.g., no parapodia, only a few segments (Rouse and Pleijel, 2001). Dinophilidae is thought to be an eunicidan taxon and is often presented as the classical example of progenetic evolution within annelids (Westheide, 1987). The retention of ancestral juvenile characters...

•^A new polynoid polychaete, Minusculisquama hughesi n. gen., n. sp., from Northumberland Strait and Nova Scotia is described. The species is remarkable for its elongate and flattened body with only 15 pairs of minute elytra confined to the anterior region. It shows features characteristic of some polynoids found living commensally in the tubes of other polychaetes. Some polynoids from Eastern ...

A new eremophilane sesquiterpene, 1-beta-hydroxy-8-oxoeremophila-7,9-dien-12-oic acid (1), in addition to two known flavonol glycosides, rutin (2) and quercetin-3-O-glucoside-7-O-rutinoside (3), was isolated from the ethyl acetate fraction obtained from the aqueous alcoholic extract of the aerial parts of Senecio aegyptius var. discoideus Boiss. (family Asteraceae). The chemical structures of t...

This article investigates the exomorphic characteristics of the achenes which are achene size, color, and surface pattern, and pappus length, and colour. All these characteristics in seven taxa of Asteraceae namely, C. aggregata Fisch. & C.A. Mey. ex DC. subsp. aggregata, C. sivasica Wagenitz, C. polypodiifolia Boiss. var. polypodiifolia, C. polypodiifolia Boiss. var. szowitziana (Boiss.) Wagen...