Isopod Newsletter 30 - Department of Invertebrate Zoology ...

ISOPOD NEWSLETTER
Number 30 March 1998
Editor: Brian Kensley
SECOND INTERNATIONAL ISOPOD CONFERENCE, AMSTERDAM, 16-18 JULY 1998.
There is still time (until the end of April at most) to submit a registration form and abstracts of
papers and posters for the Conference. Send all enquiries to Brian Kensley (NHB-163,
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, USA; KENSLEY.BRIAN@NMNH.SI.EDU;
FAX 202-357-3043).
ADDRESSES
Dr. Richard Brusca
Senior Research Scientist
Columbia University
Biosphere 2 Center
Highway 77 at Mile Marker 96
P.O.Box68
Oracle, Arizona 85623, USA
RBRUSCA@BI02.EDU
Dr. Simon Cragg
Institute of Marine Sciences
University of Portsmouth, U.K.
SThfON@PORT.AC.UK
Paraimene ibarzabalae and P.tumulus
Kensley, Ortiz & Schotte, 1997
PUBLICATIONS
Araujo, P. B. D., L. Buckup & G. Bond­
Buckup. 1996. Terrestrial isopods
(C.rustacea: Oniscidea) from Santa Catarina
and Rio Grande do Sui, Brazil.--Iheringia,
Zoologia 0(81):111-138.
Botosaneanu, L .. & T. M. nitre. 1997. Four
new stygobitic cirolanids (Crustacea:
Isopoda) from the Caribbean, with remarks
on intergeneric limits in some cirolanids.-­
Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences
naturelles de Belgique, Biologie 67:77-94.
Bhat, U. G., K. E. Skora & S. Kotwicki.
1997. Subtidal benthic meiofauna of Puck
Bay, Polish Baltic coast.--Indian Journal of
Marine Sciences 26( 1): 16-19.

Botosaneanu, L. & 1. H. Stock. 1997.
Stygofauna of Oman, 1. A new freshwater
stygobiont Cyathura (Isopoda, Anthuridae),
from interstitia of coarse wadi sediments in
Oman.--Annales de Limnologie 33(2):79-84.
Boyko, C. B. 1997. Catalog of Recent type
specimens in the Department of
Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural
History. IV. Crustacea: Isopoda.--American
Museum Novitates 3217, 39 pages, 1 table.
Brandt, A. 1997. Biodiversity of peracarid
crustaceans (Malacostraca) from the shelf
down to the deep Arctic Ocean.-­
Biodiversity and Conservation 6(11): 1533-
1556.
Claridge, M. F., H. A. Dawah & M. R.
Wilson. 1997. (Eds). Species: The units of
biodiversity. The Systematics Association
Special Volume Series 54, 439 pages.
Colomi, A., 1.-P. Trilles & D. Golani. 1997.
Livoneca sp., (Flabellifera: Cymothoidae), an
isopod parasite in the oral and branchial
cavities of the Red Sea silverside
Atherinomorus lacunosus (Perciformes:
Atherinidae) . --Diseases of Aquatic
Organisms 31(1):65-71.
Craciun, C. 1995. The spermatogenic cycle
in terrestrial isopods under the climatic
conditions of Romania: II. The evolution of
spermatogenetic phases in isopods
maintained under laboratory conditions
during their hibernal period and the
establishment of the number of generations
hatched during one year.--Studia
Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Biologia 40(1-
2):95-114.
Cuartas, E. I. 1997. Primera mencion de
Oniscus asellus Linnaeus, 1758 (Isopoda:
Oniscoidea) para la Republica Argentina-­
Neotropica 43(109-110):121-122.
Dalens, H., A. Rousset & D. Fournier. 1997.
Studies on epigean species of the genus
Oritoniscus (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea).
II. The Oritoniscus bonadonai-pyrenaeusremyi
complex. --Revue Suisse de Zoologie
1 04(4):727-749.
Davis,1. & F. Christidis. 1997. A guide to
wetland invertebrates of southwestern
Australia. Perth, Western Australia: Western
Australian Museum. 177 pages.
Espinosa-Perez, M. C. & M. E. Hendrickx.
1997. New geographic records of two
species of two species of Cirolanidae
(Crustacea: Isopoda) from the eastern
tropical Pacific.--Anales del Instituto de
Biologia, Universidad Nacional Autonoma
de Mexico (Zoologia) 68(1):175-185.
Ferry, L. A., S. L. Clark & G. M. Cailliet.
1997 . Food habits of spotted sand bass
(Paralabrax maculatofasciatus, Serranidae)
from Bahia De Los Angeles, Baja
Califomia.--Bulletin of the Southern
Califomia Academy of Sciences 96( 1): 1-21.
Hendrickx, M. E., M. Espinosa Perez, 1.
Salgado Barragan & M. N. Mendez Ubach.
1997. Tercer catalogo de la coleccion de
referencia de invertebrados, Estacion
Mazatlan, Mexico, ICML, UNAM. [Isopods
on pages 27-49]
Jones, M. 1991. Marine organisms
transported in ballast water. A review of the
Australian scientific position.--Bulletin of the
Bureau of Rural Resources 11: 19.

Klitgaard, A. B. 1997. The distribution and
habitats in the North Atlantic of two gnathiid
species (Crustacea, Isopoda) and their
reproductive biology in the Denmark Strait
and north of Iceland.--Meddelelser om
Gronland, Bioscience 47: 1-32.
Kumar, A. B. & N. L. Bruce. 1997. Elthusa
samariscii Shiino, 1951 (Isopoda,
Cymothoidae) parasitizing Samaris cristatus
Gray, 1831, off the Kerala coast, India.-­
Crustaceana 70(7):780-787.
Kussakin, O. G., M. B. Ivanova & A. P.
Tsurpalo. 1997. A check-list of animals,
plants and fungi from the intertidal zone of
Far Eastern seas of Russia. Vladivostok:
Dalnauka. 168 pages. [In Russian]
Kussakin, O. G. & G. S. Vasina. 1977.
Three new species of Arcturidae from the
lower abyssal zone ofLorie and South
Sandwich Trenches, west Antarctic
(Crustacea: Isopoda: Valvifera).-­
Zoosystematica Rossica 5:221-232.
Lavy, D., O. Nedved & H. A. Verhoef
1997. Effects of starvation on body
composition and cold tolerance in the
collembolan Orchesella cincta and the
isopod Porcellio scaber.--Journal of Insect
Physiology 43(1):973-978.
Leistikow. A. 1997. A new species of the
genus Reductoniscus Kesselyak, 1930, from
Sabah, North Bornea, Malaysia (Isopoda:
Oniscidea: Armadillidae).--Revue Suisse de
Zoologie 1 04( 4): 785-793.
Malyutina, M. V. 1997. Disconectes
vanhoeffeni sp. n., a new isopod species of
the family Munnopsidae from the South
Sandwich Trench of the Antarctic.-­
Biologiya Morya, Vladivostok 23(3): 174-
178. [In Russian with English abstract.]
Margulis, L. & K. V. Schwartz. 1998. Five
kingdoms. An illustrated guide to the phyla
of life on earth. Third edition. 520 pages.
McCay, T. S. & G. L. Storm. 1997. Masked
shrew Sorex cinereus, abundance, diet and
prey selection in an irrigated forest.-­
American Midland Naturalist 138(2):268-
275.
Merilaita, S. 1997. Evolution of a cryptic
colour pattern in Idotea baltica (Isopoda,
Crustacea).--Page 165 in M. Taborsky & B.
Taborsky (eds) Advances in Ethology 32.
Contributions to the XXV International
Ethological Conference, Vienna, Austria.
Mitton, J. B., P. A. Carter & A. Digiacomo.
1977. Resting oxygen consumption varies
among lactate dehydrogenase genotypes in
the sow bug Porcellio scaber.--Proceedings
of the Royal Society, London (B) 264:1543-
1546.
Negoescu, 1. & J. Svavarsson. 19977.
Anthurideans (Crustacea, Isopoda) from the
North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean.--Sarsia
82(3): 159-202.
Okuno, A., Y. Hasegawa & H. Nagasawa.
1997. Purification and properties of
androgenic gland hormone from the
terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare.-­
Zoological SGience (Tokyo) 14(5):837-842.
Poore, G. C. B. & A. Brandt. 1997.
Crustacea Isopoda Serolidae: Acutiserolis
cidaris and Caecoserolis novaecaledoniae,
two new species from the Coral Sea.-­
Memoires du Museum National d'Histoire
Naturelle, Paris 176:151-168.

Sandberg, E. 1997. Benthic predator-prey
relationships and abiotic stress. The effects
of physical disturbance and oxygen
deficiency. --Acta Academiae Aboensis
(B): 56(2): 1-42.
San Vicente, C., A. Ramos, A. Jimeno & 1.
C. Sorbe. 1997. Suprabenthic assemblages
from South Shetland Islands and Bransfield
Strait, Antarctica: Preliminary observations
on faunistic composition, bathymetric and
near-bottom distribution.--Polar Biology
18(6):415-422.
Sbordoni, M. C., V. Ketmaier, E. De
Matthaeis & S. Taiti. 1997. Biochemical
systematics and evolutionary relationships in
the Trichoniscus pusillus complex
(Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea) . --Heredity
79(5):463-472.
Schmalfuss, H. 1998. Evolutionary strategies
. of the antennae in terrestrial isopods.-­
Journal of Crustacean Biology 18(1): 10-24.
Sparrevik, E. & K. Leonardsson. 1998.
Recruitment in the predacious isopod
Saduria entomon (L.): alternative prey
reduces cannibalism.--Journal of
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology
221 : 11 7-130.
Starmans, A. 1997. Vergleichende
Untersuchungen zur Okologie and
BiodiversiUit des Mega-Epibenthos der
Arktis und Antarktis.--Berichte zur
Polarforschung 250: 1-150.
Svavarsson, 1. 1997. Diversity of isopods
( Crustacea): new data from the Arctic and
Atlantic Oceans.--Biodiversity and
Conservation 6(11): 1571-1579.
Swami, B. S. & M. Udhayakumar. 1997.
Incidence of a crustacean wood-borer
Limnoria platycauda Menzies (Isopoda:
Limnoriidae) in Bombay Harbour, west coast
of India. --Indian Journal of Marine Sciences
26(3):302-304.
Szlavecz, K. & M. Pobozsny. 1995.
Coprophagy in isopods and diplopods: a case
for indirect interaction.--Acta Zoologica
Fennica 196:124-128.
Tamako, A. & K. Suzukawa. 1997. Life
history and zonation dynamics of the
cirolanid isopod Eurydice nipponica Bruce
& Jones, on an intertidal sandflat in western
Kyushu, Japan.--Crustacean Research 26:83-
102.
Thatcher, V. E. 1997. Mouthpart
morphology of six freshwater species of
Cymothoidae (lsopoda) from Amazonian fish
compared to that of three marine forms, with
the proposal of Artystonenae subfam. nov.-­
Amazoniana 14(3/4):311-322.
Tigar, B. 1. & P. E. Osborne. 1997. Patterns
of arthropod abundance and diversity in an
Arabian desert.--Ecography, Copenhagen
20:550-558.
Ugolini, A., F. Morabito & C. Castellini.
1997. Spectral filtering and celestial
orientation iIrthe semi-terrestrial isopod
Ty/os europaeus.--Ethology Ecology and
Evolution 9:261-268.
Warburg, M. R., J. Adis, M. Rosenberg & F.
Schaller. 1997. Ecology and structure of
respiratory organs in a unique amphibious
terrestrial isopod from the neotropics
(Oniscidea: Philosciidae).--Studies on
neotropical fauna 'and environment 3 2( 1 ): 52-
63.

Wright, J. C., M. J. O'Donnell & S. Sazgar.
1997. Hemolymph osmoregulation and the
fate of sodium and chloride during
dehydration in terrestrial isopods.--Journal of
Insect Physiology 43(9):795-807.
Ziegler, A. & F. H. E. Scholz. 1997. The
ionic hemolymph composition of the
terrestrial isopod Porcellio scaber Latr.
during molt.--Journal of Comparative
Physiology B, Biochemical, Systematic and
Environmental Physiology 167(8):536-542.
Zimmer, M. 1997. Surfactants in the gut
fluids of Porcellio scaber (Isopoda:
Oniscidea) and their interactions with
phenolics. --Journal of Insect Physiology
43(11): 1009-1014.
Zimmer, M. & G. Kautz. 1997. Breeding
phenological strategies of the common
woodlouse Porcellio scaber (Isopoda:
Oniscidea).--European Journal of Soil
Biology 33(2):67-73.
Zimmer, M. & W. Topp. 1997. Homeostatic
responses in the gut of Porcellio scaber
(Isopoda: Oniscidea) optimize litter .
degradation. --Journal of Comparative
Physiology, B, Biochemical Systematic and
Environmental Physiology 167(8):582-585.