Benecke1) was the first to report the isolation of Bacillus chitinovorus, a bacillus which decomposes chitin, from the sea water of Kiel Bay in 1905. Later, the bacillus was collected and studied mainly in Germany and in the United States, taking as sources various materials such as sea mud, sea water, fresh lake water, soil, compost, crustacea etc. However, the study of this bacillus has never...

The aim of the present study is to represent an annotated checklist of the Branchiopoda (Crustacea) reported from Chilean inland waters. Only Anostraca and Cladocera are found in Chile, while there are no reports on Notostraca and "Conchostraca". Our checklist contains 85 valid taxa, among which nine anostracans and 76 cladocerans. Such "low" biodiversity of the branchiopods in Chile is in real...

  Baseline ecological studies of Pondicherry mangroves are important for monitoring, management and conservation of mangrove ecosystems. A brachyuran crab faunal assemblage at four stations of Pondicherry mangroves is described and monthly samplings were made during September 2008 – August 2009. Totally 22 species of brachyuran crabs belonging to 12 genera and 5 families were recorded crabs bel...

This essay looks at the historical significance of two APS classic papers that are freely available online: Kravitz EA, Kuffler SW, and Potter DD. Gamma-aminobutyric acid and other blocking compounds in Crustacea. III. Their relative concentrations in separated motor and inhibitory axons. J Neurophysiol 26: 739–751, 1963 (http:// jn.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/26/5/739). Otsuka M, Kravitz EA, an...

A new species of Chydoridae cladoceran (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae) is described from the Cerrado (a Brazilian tropical savanna ecoregion), Central Brazil. Ephemeroporus quasimodo sp. nov. differs from other species of the genus in a high dorsal keel on carapace and posterior part of the head shield, which resembles a hunchback. Parthenogenetic females, ephippial females and males are des...

This essay looks at the historical significance of two APS classic papers that are freely available online: Kravitz EA, Kuffler SW, and Potter DD. Gamma-aminobutyric acid and other blocking compounds in Crustacea. III. Their relative concentrations in separated motor and inhibitory axons. J Neurophysiol 26: 739–751, 1963 (http:// jn.physiology.org/cgi/reprint/26/5/739). Otsuka M, Kravitz EA, an...

_______________________________________ 237 Introduction _______________________________________ 237 Methods and procedures-------.------.---------238 Acknowledgements. __--___-_-___-_____--________ 239 Geology-__________________________________ 239 Characteristics of the nodules_______________________ 240 Preservation of the fossils-_-__-_-____________________ 241 Age of the fauna_--__-__-__--...

An unusual species of the genus Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae Pontoniinae) from Heron Island, Queensland, Australia, collected by Dr Niel Bruce in 1979, is described and illustrated. Periclimenaeus denticulodigitus sp. nov., an ascidian associate was collected from coral reef at 7.0 m and presents some interesting new features. It increases to 17 the number ...

as Surgeon-Naturalist for about four years. The volume is divided into three parts, the first for the general reader, describes the objects of marine survey of India, the world beneath the waves, and gives an account of many voyagings among the islands in the Bay of Bengal, and the Laccadive Sea. The second part deals with the deep-sea fauna of the Indian region, with deep sea fishes, crustacea...

The monophyletic group of myrmicine ant genera related to Eutetramorium is described and its taxonomy is documented. The group is endemic in Madagascar and contains five genera: Eutetramorium Emery, 1899 (3 species, 1 of which is new); Malagidris nom. n., a replacement name for Brunella Forel, 1917, junior homonym of Brunella Smith, G.W. 1909 (Crustacea) (6 species, 5 of which are new); Myrmisa...