Treatise on Zoology. The Myriapoda. Vol. 2

Description:

Myriapods are the only major zoological group for which a modern encyclopaedic 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). This book fills that gap with an updated treatment of all aspects of biology of the four myriapod classes (about 15,000 species described to date), including external and internal morphology, physiology, reproduction, development, distribution, ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy.

Volume II deals with the Diplopoda or millipedes. As in the previous volume, chapters deal with external and internal morphology, physiology, reproduction, development, distribution, ecology, phylogeny and taxonomy. All currently recognized suprageneric taxa and a very large selection of the genera are considered. 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 colour photographs.