world catalogue and bibliography of the recent pycnogonida

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There are certain arguments that speak for publishing such
a catalogue on computer disk, instead of distributing it
regularly as a printed book. From the financial point of view,
the former way is considerably cheaper and allows new editions
in short intervals. If you prefer to have parts of this
catalogue printed, you can do it yourself easily. The layout is
prepared, genus and species names written in italics. Using the
catalogue in a computer, you can locate certain species
automatically with the search function of "Word Perfect 5.1".
This allows convenient access to the respective species in the
file PYCNO.CAT on the first floppy disk, even when only older
names/synonyms are available to you.
Users should keep in mind, that we have a considerable
steady increase of information within a short time. Thus, to
avoid unnecessary inflation of the volume of this catalogue, I
included only the more substantial information, which is
(surely) subjective to some extend. For example, when a species
is mentioned only in a key in a certain paper, this is often
not noted in the reference-list under the respective species.
When you are searching for keys to genera or species, you
should check the information given for the respective families,
subfamilies and genera. The inclusion of recent literature has
been given priority, because these papers usually summarize
information of older publications.
A complete bibliography of publications refering on
Pycnogonida is available in the file PYCNO.LIT on the second
flopy disc. I included all references that came to my
knowledge.
Helpful suggestions for improvement of this catalogue are
always welcome.
1993, H.-G. Müller, for personal use only. You are
allowed to take one copy of this file for security purposes and
to print yourself one copy of the files PYCNO.CAT and
PYCNO.LIT. The price of 69 US-$ for the floppy disk version
payable in advance inludes packing and registered airmail
worldwide for individuals and institutions. With the
acquisition of these files you have the possibility to obtain
the update-versions for a reduced fee, which are compiled from
time to time. You are informed free of charge by air mail, as
soon as an update will be available. However, a printed version
of this catalogue is available on request as paper-bound
photocopy for 119 US-$, or 139 US-$ as cloth-bound volume with
gold tooling. The prices of the printed versions include the
floppy disks and registered surface-mailing. Add 25 US-$, if
you prefer registered air-mailing for the printed version. The
contents of computer- and printed versions are identical,
except for the lack of an index in the former. ISBN 3-930311-
04-6, 26 Oct. 1993.
Helpful suggestions for improvement of this catalogue are
always welcome.