Aquatic Oligochaeta: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Aquatic Obligochaete Biology, held in Pallanza, Italy, September 21–24, 1982

Front Matter....Pages I-XIV
Howard R. Baker (1955–1983) in memoriam....Pages 1-2
A phenetic and cladistic study of spermatozoal ultrastructure in the Oligochaeta (Annelida)....Pages 3-13
Two atavistic characters of some Lumbriculidae and their importance for the classification of Oligochaeta....Pages 15-17
Phylogenetic and taxonomic problems in freshwater Oligochaeta with special emphasis on chitinous structures in Tubificinae....Pages 19-23
The position of the Haplotaxidae in the evolution of oligochaete annelids....Pages 25-36
Aspects of the phylogeny of the marine Tubificidae....Pages 37-44
Specific criteria in Grania (Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae)....Pages 45-50
Capilloventer atlanticus gen. et sp.n., a member of a new family of marine Oligochaeta from Brazil....Pages 51-54
A method of identifying immature specimens of marine Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) by vital staining of epidermal glands....Pages 55-58
Cytological aspects of oligochaete spermiogenesis....Pages 59-64
Life-cycle and karyology of Branchiura sowerbyi Beddard (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae)....Pages 65-69
Diet and histophysiology of the alimentary canal of Lumbricillus lineatus (Oligochaeta, Enchytraeidae)....Pages 71-81
The gutless oligochaete Phallodrilus leukodermatus Giere, a tubificid of structural, ecological and physiological relevance....Pages 83-89
Asexual propagation and reproductive strategies in aquatic Oligochaeta....Pages 91-95
Life cycles and reproductive adaptations of marine Oligochaeta from European boreal shores....Pages 96-96
Parthenogenesis in Tubificidae....Pages 97-99
Potential age of aquatic Oligochaeta....Pages 101-104
Growth of Stylaria lacustris (L.) (Oligochaeta, Naididae)....Pages 105-107
The biology of Psammoryctides barbatus (Grube) in English chalk streams....Pages 109-112
Cohort cultures of Psammoryctides barbatus (Grube) and Spirosperma ferox Eisen: a tool for a better understanding of demographic strategies in Tubificidae....Pages 113-119
Oxygen demand and long term changes of profundal zoobenthos....Pages 121-126
Oligochaete communities as biological descriptors of pollution in the fine sediments of rivers....Pages 127-129
Eutrophication of Lakes Léman and Neuchâtel (Switzerland) indicated by oligochaete communities....Pages 131-138
Lethal and sublethal tolerances of aquatic oligochaetes with reference to their use as a biotic index of pollution....Pages 139-144
Oligochaeta of the middle Po River (Italy): principal component analysis of the benthic data....Pages 145-152
Short term dynamics of the dominant annelids in a polyhaline temperate estuary....Pages 153-158
The occurrence of species of semi-aquatic Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) in Ireland....Pages 159-170
The oligochaetes (Annelida, Oligochaeta) in a lake and a canal in the agricultural landscape of Poland....Pages 171-174
Oligochaeta of the epigean and underground fauna of the alluvial plain of the French upper Rhône (biotypological trial)....Pages 175-182
Comparison of different methods of water quality evaluation by means of oligochaetes....Pages 183-186
On aquatic Oligochaeta Lumbricomorpha in Europe....Pages 187-190
Diversity and zoogeography of marine Tubificidae (Annelida, Oligochaeta) with notes on variation in widespread species....Pages 191-196
Distribution and habitat characteristics of Naididae and Tubificidae in the inland waters of Israel and the Sinai Peninsula....Pages 197-205
A taxonomic and faunistic survey of the marine Tubificidae and Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta) of Italy. Introduction and preliminary results....Pages 207-210
Ecology and importance of Oligochaeta in the biocenosis of zoobenthos in lakes of the National Park of the Lithuanian SSR....Pages 211-214
The distribution of aquatic oligochaetes in the fenland area of N.W. Overijssel (The Netherlands)....Pages 215-222
Oligochaeta from profundal zones of Spanish reservoirs....Pages 223-230
Back Matter....Pages 231-240