PSAMMONALIA
The Newsletter of the International Association of Meiobenthologists
Number 153, May 2010
Composed and Printed at: Department of Zoology Federal University of Pernambuco Recife, PE, 50670-420 BRAZIL
Homage to Prof. Sebastian A. Gerlach and Dr. Warwick L. Nicholas
Hydrobiologia 511: 47–64 (2004)
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This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 1 The International Association of MeiobenthologistsExecutive Committee Paulo Santos Dept. of Zoology, Federal University of Pernambuco, Recife, Chairperson PE 50670-420 Brazil [[email protected]] Keith Walters Dept. of Marine Science, Coastal Carolina University, POB Past Chairperson 261954, Conway, SC 29528-6054 USA [[email protected]] Ann Vanreusel Lab Morphologie, Universiteit Gent, Ladengancjstraat 35, Treasurer B-9000 Gent, Belgium [[email protected]] Jyotsna Sharma Dept. of Biology, University of Texas at San Antonio, San Assistant Treasurer Antonio, TX 78249-0661, USA [[email protected]] Monika Bright Dept. of Marine Biology, University of Vienna, Vienna, A- (term expires 2013) 1090, Austria [[email protected]] Tom Moens Ghent University, Biology Department, Marine Biology (term expires 2013) Section, Gent, B-9000, Belgium [[email protected]] Kevin Carman Dept. of Biology, A103 Life Sciences, Louisiana State (term expires 2010) University, Baton Rouge LA 70803 USA [[email protected]] Emil Olafsson Menntun Consultoría, c/Cava Alta 9, 2ºC, Madrid 28005 (term expires 2010) Spain [[email protected]]
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This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 2 Editorial Committee, Eduardo Suarez-Morales at [email protected] Bom dia! New Members UnfortunatelyI have to begin with some Laura Ryckman, University of Texas sad news, during the last weeks two Marine Science Institute, 750 Channel important nematologists/ View Drive, Port Aransas, TX 78373 meiobenthologists passed away: Prof. USA Sebastian A. Gerlach and Dr. Warwick e-mail: [email protected] Nicholas for whom two friends wrote Interests: Harpacticoid copepods some nice words. They left us many important achievements during their Watanabe Hidemi, Graduate School of careers, and are certainly examples to Information Science and Technology be followed. N14W9, 0600814 Sapporo Japan Waiting to see most of you at Ghent e-mail: [email protected] during our Conference, Cheers, Change of address Paulo Birger Neuhaus, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstr 43 D-10115 Germany e-mail: [email protected]
Next Conference Mathew Richard Lee, Inst Biologia Marine Jurgen Winter, Universidad Austral de Chile, Campus Isla Teja The International Association of Valdivia Chile Meiobenthologists is pleased to invite e-mail: [email protected] you to participate in its 14th International Meiofauna Conference – FourtIMCo – in Ghent, Belgium, from Obituaries July 12th – 16th 2010. Sebastian A Gerlach (17.06.2010) See program details in: http://www.fourtimco.ugent.be/index.asp Dear colleagues, Today the sad news reached me that the former Professor of Benthos Ecology Other related Conferences in Kiel, Sebastian A. Gerlach, passed away last Thursday, 17.06.2010. He was The 11th International Conference on weakening since a few years, although Copepoda will be held in 2011, in there was a recovery from a serious Merida, Mexico. For more information break down in Sweden two years ago. on the 11th ICOC, contact the My last encounter with him was when I Chairman of the Local Organizing transported the separate prints of his collected works to the meiofauna
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 3 group in Wilhelmshaven. I knew Nic for thirty years, but this Prof. Gerlach started his academic time covers barely half of his very long career as a meiofauna taxonomist and wide-ranging scientific career, and (Nematoda) and doctoral student of it certainly does not cover all the Adolf Remane in Kiel and became in different aspects of his work. Indeed, 1977 such was the range of topics, places and director of the Institut für people involved that I cannot hope to do Meeresforschung in Bremerhaven. He justice to them all. left this place when the AWI was Nick was born in England and had a far founded to become full professor of from settled childhood under the care of benthos ecology and head of the his mother and several relatives. His Department of Marine Botany in the father died when Nick was quite young. Institut für Meereskunde in Kiel (1981). At one stage he and his mother moved Here he made a second career in to Canada. He attended a number of pollution research and as coordinator of different schools; from all reports only a a large eutrophication project that few were happy experiences. At one initiated many other scientific works stage, he had an enlarged lymph node both in the North Sea and the Baltic removed, and was diagnosed with region. He also coordinated for diphtheria, although after three weeks HELCOM the Second Periodic in diphtheria and scarlet-fever wards Assessment (GESPA) in 1989. He left the diagnosis turned out to be tonsillitis. his chair in 1991 and had an active life After finishing school during the 2nd as an emeritus professor and sailor with World War, he trained to become a pilot, his yacht "GAMLA". He leaves a family first in the UK, then in the USA. Nick behind with his wife Christine and had a great deal of flying experience, three children. Our sympathy is with much of it solo, but the war ended his family. before he took up active service. After the war, pilot training was ceased, and Heye Rumohr (by e-mail) Nick returned to the UK for more training as a radar mechanic. He finished his military service in 1946 as a Vale Warwick L. (Nick) Nicholas petty officer. (3 April 1926 – 5 May 2010) After demobilization, Nick took up the opportunity to go to university, where Warwick Nicholas (Nick) was one of the he studied zoology and other sciences at pioneering nematologists in Australia the University of Liverpool, graduating and the world. He died recently after in 1951. He completed a doctorate at battling cancer with his typical practical the Liverpool Institute of Tropical resolve since 2003. In addition to his Diseases working on insect-vectored scientific legacy, he leaves his wife diseases in west Africa. Through Evelyn, 4 adult children and eleven various outside influences Nick was left grandchildren. Many colleagues to complete this research virtually attended his funeral in Canberra. unaided, but it was completed successfully and marked the beginning
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 4 of a career-long association with advisory board. He lead the Zoology nematodes. Here found his true calling, Department at ANU for quite a few and his life-long partner, his wife years in total over several intervals, Evelyn. although he was never appointed There followed a period of career Professor, which was a disappointment instability with various short-term to him. positions and projects, including work For most of his career, Nick was on another group of small parasitic passionate about the nematodes. He worms, the Acanthocephala, which was studied human, vertebrate and also to continue throughout his career. invertebrate parasites, free-living forms During this period Nick continued to in beaches and swamps from Melbourne work on nematode parasites of to Darwin. He studied feeding and vertebrates, but also entered the then energetics in the laboratory. He studied novel field of nutritional requirements ecology, behaviour, epidemiology, and culture of nematodes. biochemistry, and taxonomy. He Nick arrived in Australia in 1960 to described 35 new species and 5 new take up a senior lectureship at the then genera of nematodes, which is a sizeable Canberra University College, soon to chunk of the known fauna of Australia. become The Australian National Not content with that, he described 3 of University. Apart from brief periods on the 12 species of gastrotrichs known sabbatical, he remained at ANU for the from Australia, the last published only a rest of his long career. When he joined, few years ago. He worked on the department consisted of a professor, Nematomorpha and Acanthocephala as his secretary, the chief laboratory well. All these names may mean very administrator, six students, and Nick, little to most, but they demonstrate all housed in a "fibro" hut shared with Nick's tremendous interest in real Botany, Chemistry and Physics. Those scientific problems, and starting from were true pioneering days. where nothing or very little was known At ANU Nick continued to work on never deterred him. culturing and nutrition of free-living Nick literally gave the world the nematodes, vertebrate-parasitic nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, nematodes and Acanthocephala, in which is used a model organism for addition to supervising postgraduate studying nutrition, development and students and lecturing. Later, he added ageing. He and wife Evelyn travelled to other types of nematodes and little America by ship in the late 1950's with known taxonomic groups to the list of vials of culture in his pocket and the animals studied. recipe for keeping the cultures alive in He was, with the late Alan Bird, one of his notebook. (Those were less the early editors of the Australasian biosecurity-conscious days.) Nick used Nematologists Newsletter. He was his intimate knowledge of nematodes to instrumental in setting up the choose this species carefully, so that it Australian Society for Parasitology. He would both culture without any other served on many committees and organisms present, and survive the then advisory boards, including the ABRS lengthy travelling times. So good was
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 5 Nick’s choice, that Caenorhabditis has and scholarly interactions we all had been studied around the world ever with Nick, the scientific community was since. The axenic cultures of C. elegans lucky to have known him. were an essential condition for the studies that lead to the 2002 Nobel Mike Hodda (by e-mail) Prize awarded to Horvitz, Brenner and Sulston. It is a measure of the importance of the cultures which Nick Recent Literature started, that right up to the present, he was still being contacted for information Alves AS, Adao H, Patricio J, et al. 2009. about their origin from around the Spatial distribution of subtidal meiobenthos world. His studies on energetics are along estuarine gradients in two southern still used as the basis for calculating European estuaries (Portugal). Journal of energy flows and food requirements in the Marine Biological Association of the nematodes. United Kingdom 89 (8): 1529-1540 Nick produced many things scientific. Araujo-Castro CMV, Souza-Santos LP, He wrote many papers over 55 years of Torreiro AG, et al. 2009. Sensitivity of the scientific publishing; many of the 119 marine benthic copepod Tisbe biminiensis papers are still cited. Modern search (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) to potassium tools list over 1000 references to his dichromate and sediment particle size. papers; it is a measure of impact that Brazilian Journal of Oceanography 57 (1): 33-41 this is an impressive figure even though Armenteros M, Ruiz-Abierno A, Fernandez- many papers were written and cited Garces R, et al. 2009. Biodiversity patterns before the advent of the modern tools. of free-living marine nematodes in a He wrote a book which went through 2 tropical bay: Cienfuegos, Caribbean Sea. editions. He had many PhD and Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 85 (2): Masters students; I was one. Such was 179-189 the range of his interests that we, his Armenteros M, Ruiz-Abierno A, Vincx M, et students, have gone many different al. 2009. A morphometric analysis of the ways. genus Terschellingia (Nematoda: More than anything Nick produced Linhomoeidae) with redefinition of the ideas, and shared his experience. He genus and key to the species. Journal of the was always open but forthright, and Marine Biological Association of the United willing to share his time (except when Kingdom 89 (6): 1257-1267 his favourite soap opera was on!). Balsamo M, d'Hondt JL, Pierboni L, et al. Despite these achievements, Nick was 2009. Taxonomic and nomenclatural notes always down-to-earth and dismissive of on freshwater Gastrotricha. Zootaxa 2158: those seeking status for its own sake. 1-19 His exploits and anecdotes enlivened Balsamo M, Guidi L, Ferraguti M, et al. 2010. the staff room at what became known as Diuronotus aspetos (Gastrotricha): new BoZo at ANU for many years. morphological data and description of the By any measure, by his scientific spermatozoon. Helgoland Marine Research impact, through his writings, by the 64 (1): 27-34 Bernhard JM, Barry JP, Buck KR, et al. 2009. students he has left, and in the personal Impact of intentionally injected carbon
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 6 dioxide hydrate on deep-sea benthic Chatterjee T, De Troch M, Chan BKK. 2008. foraminiferal survival. Global Change Descriptions of two species of Biology 15 (8): 2078-2088 Copidognathus Halacaid mites (Acari, Blanar CA, Munkittrick KR, Houlahan J, et al. Halacaridae) from Zanzibar, Tanzania. 2009. Pollution and parasitism in aquatic Zootaxa 1809: 49-60 animals: A meta-analysis of effect size. Chatterjee T, Pešić V, Chan Bkk, De Troch Aquatic Toxicology 93 (1): 18-28 M. 2009. Description of a new species of Botelho AP, Da Silva MC, Sobral LDT, et al. the Agauopsis ornata group (Acari, 2009. Two new species of Sabatieria Halacaridae) from Zanzibar, Tanzania Rouville (Nematoda: Comesomatidae) with including a key to species of the ornata conical-cylindrical tails, from Campos group sensu stricto. Cahiers de Biologie Basin, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 2096: Marine 50 (3): 261-271 82-98 Chatterjee T, Pešić V, De Troch M. 2008. A Caramujo MJ, Boavida MJ. 2009. The new species of the genus Arhodeoporus practical identification of harpacticoids (Acari, Halacaridae) from Zanzibar, (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) in inland waters Tanzania. Cahiers de Biologie Marine 49 of central Portugal for applied studies. (2): 185-190 Crustaceana 82 (4): 385-409 Chatterjee T, Pešić V, De Troch M. 2009. A Casu M, Lai T, Sanna D, et al. 2009. An new species of the genus Atelopsalis (Acari, integrative approach to the taxonomy of the Halacaridae) from Zanzibar, Tanzania. pigmented European Pseudomonocelis Cahiers de Biologie Marine 50 (2): 193-197 Meixner, 1943 (Platyhelminthes: Chertoprud ES, Gomez S, Gheerardyn H. Proseriata). Biological Journal of the 2009. Harpacticoida (Copepoda) fauna and Linnean Society 98 (4): 907-922 the taxocene diversity of the South China Cavalcanti MD, Da Silva MC, Da Fonseca- Sea. Oceanology 49 (4): 488-498 Genevois V. 2009. Spirodesma magdae nov Chullasorn S, Dahms HU, Schizas NV, et al. gen. nov sp (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) 2009. Phylogenetic inferences of Tisbe from the Brazilian deep sea (Campos Basin, Lilljeborg, 1853 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). Zootaxa 2096: 109- with Tisbe thailandensis sp nov from 118 Thailand. Hydrobiologia 627 (1): 1-17 Cerrano C, Danovaro R, Gambi C, et al. 2010. Chullasorn S. 2009. A review of Gold coral (Savalia savaglia) and gorgonian Typhlamphiascus Lang, 1944 (Copepoda: forests enhance benthic biodiversity and Harpacticoida: Miraciidae) with a new ecosystem functioning in the mesophotic species Typhlamphiascus higginsi from zone. Biodiversity and Conservation 19 (1): Phuket Island, Thailand. Zoological Studies 153-167 48 (4): 493-507 Chapman MG, Tolhurst TJ, Murphy RJ, et al. Coe HJ, Kiffney PM, Pess GR, et al. 2009. 2010. Complex and inconsistent patterns of Periphyton and invertebrate response to variation in benthos, micro-algae and wood placement in large Pacific coastal sediment over multiple spatial scales. rivers. River Research and Applications 25 Marine Ecology-Progress Series 398: 33-47 (8): 1025-1035 Charbagi-Barbirou K, Tekaya S. 2009. Sexual Cottarelli V, Bruno MC, Berera R. 2008. An differentiation and karyological study in the intriguing new taxon of interstitial gonochoristic planarian Sabussowia dioica Laophontidae from the Indo-Pacific: (Platyhelminthes, Tricladida). Cahiers de Aequinoctiella gen. nov (Copepoda: Biologie Marine 50 (4): 303-309
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 7 Harpacticoida). Vie et Milieu-Life and Gad G. 2009 A clearly identifiable postlarva Environment 58 (3-4): 263-275 in the life cycle of a new species of Das SS, Tripathi MK. 2009. Trace fossils Pliciloricus (Loricifera) from the deep sea from Talchir carbonate concretions, Giridih of the Angola Basin. Zootaxa 2096: 50-81 basin, Jharkhand. Journal of Earth System Gad G. 2009. Culexiregiloricus, a new genus Science 118 (1): 89-100 of Nanaloricidae (Loricifera) from the deep De Wit P, Rota E, Erseus C. 2009. Grania sea of the Guinea Basin (Southeast (Annelida: Clitellata: Enchytraeidae) of the Atlantic). Zootaxa 2096: 33-49 Great Barrier Reef, Australia, including four George KH, Plum C. 2009. Description of two new species and a re-description of Grania new species of Dorsiceratus Drzycimski, trichaeta Jamieson, 1977. Zootaxa 2165: 1967 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: 16-38 Ancorabolidae) from Sedlo and Seine Debenay JP, Della Patrona L, Herbland A, et Seamounts (Northeastern Atlantic) and al. 2009. The impact of easily oxidized remarks on the phylogenetic status of the material (EOM) on the meiobenthos: genus. Zootaxa 2096: 257-286 Foraminifera abnormalities in shrimp ponds Gheerardyn H, Arbizu PM, Vanreusel A. of New Caledonia; implications for 2009. Discovery of Novocriniidae environment and paleoenvironment survey. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from cold-water Marine Pollution Bulletin 59 (8-12) SI: 323- corals in the Porcupine Seabight (NE 335 Atlantic), with description of a new species Denis F, Ravallec R, Pavillon JF, et al. 2009. of Atergopedia Martinez Arbizu & Moura, Genetic differentiation of Atlantic 1998. Organisms Diversity and Evolution 9 populations of the intertidal copepod (3) DOI: 10.1016/j.ode.2009.04.001 Tigriopus brevicornis. Scientia Marina 73 Gheerardyn H, de Troch M, Vincx M, et al. (3): 579-587 2009. Harpacticoida (Crustacea: Copepoda) Diaz-Asencio L, Armenteros M, Diaz-Asencio associated with cold-water coral substrates M, et al. 2009. Spatial and temporal in the Porcupine Seabight (NE Atlantic): variations of meiofaunal communities in species composition, diversity and Cienfuegos Bay, Cuba. Revista de Biologia reflections on the origin of the fauna. Marina y Oceanografia 44 (1): 13-22 Scientia Marina 73 (4): 747-760 Du YF, Xu KD, Lei YL. 2009. Simultaneous Gheerardyn H, De Troch M, Vincx M, et al. enumeration of diatom, protozoa and 2010. Diversity and community structure of meiobenthos from marine sediments using harpacticoid copepods associated with cold- Ludox-QPS method. Chinese Journal of water coral substrates in the Porcupine Oceanology and Limnology 27 (4): 775-783 Seabight (North-East Atlantic). Helgoland Fadeeva NP, Maslennikov SI. 2009. The Marine Research 64 (1): 53-62 abundance and distribution of free-living Gheerardyn H, George KH. 2010. New marine nematodes of the Piltun- representatives of the genus Ancorabolina Astokhskoye oil and gas field (North-East George, 2006 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Sakhalin). Russian Journal of Nematology Ancorabolidae) including remarks on 17 (1): 31-42 ancorabolid phylogeny. Zoological Journal First MR, Hollibaugh JT. 2010. of the Linnean Society 158 (1): 16-55 Environmental factors shaping microbial Gheerardyn H, Veit-Kohler G. 2009. Diversity community structure in salt marsh and large-scale biogeography of sediments. Marine Ecology-Progress Series Paramesochridae (Copepoda, 399: 15-26 Harpacticoida) in South Atlantic Abyssal
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 8 Plains and the deep Southern Ocean. Deep- Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology- Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Progress Series 396: 181-195 Research Papers 56 (10): 1804-1815 Guilherme BC, Da Silva MC, Esteves AM. Gillett DJ, Schaffner LC. 2009. Benthos of the 2009. Description of a new species of York River. Journal of Coastal Research Epacanthion (Thoracostomopsidae, SI 57: 80-98 Nematoda) from Brazil and a modified key Gomes TP, Rosa JS. 2009. Composition and for species identification. Zootaxa 2096: 99- spatio-temporal variability of meiofauna 108 community on a sandy beach in the Amazon Gwyther D, Batterham GJ, Waworuntu J, et region (Ajuruteua, Para, Brazil). Iheringia al. 2009. Recolonisation of mine tailing by Serie Zoologia 99 (2): 210-216 meiofauna in mesocosm and microcosm Gomez S, Chertoprud ES. 2009. Sentiropsis experiments. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58 vietnamensis n. sp., a new pseudotachidiid (6): 841-850 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the South Heiner I, Boesgaard TM, Kristensen RM. China Sea. Journal of Crustacean Biology 2009. First time discovery of Loricifera 29 (4): 568-578 from Australian waters and marine caves. Gowda G, Rajesh KM, Mridula RM. 2009. Marine Biology Research 5 (6): 529-546 Vertical distribution of polychaetes in Heiner I, Sorensen KJK, Kristensen RM. brackishwater pond of Nethravathi estuary, 2009. The spermiogenesis and the early India. Journal of Environmental Biology 30 spermatozoa of Armorloricus elegans (6): 1025-1029 (Loricifera, Nanaloricidae). Zoomorphology Gradinger RR, Kaufman MR, Bluhm BA. 128 (4): 285-304 2009. Pivotal role of sea ice sediments in Hildrew AG. 2009. Sustained research on the seasonal development of near-shore stream communities: a model system and Arctic fast ice biota. Marine Ecology- the comparative approach. Advances in Progress Series 394: 49-63 Ecological Research 41: 175-312 Grego M, De Troch M, Forte J, et al. 2009. Hoang LP, Blome D, Nguyen VT, et al. 2009. Main meiofauna taxa as an indicator for Five new species of the genus assessing the spatial and seasonal impact of Leptolaimoides Vitiello, 1971 (Nematoda: fish farming. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58 Leptolaimidae) from Can Gio mangrove (8): 1178- biosphere reserve, Vietnam. Russian Grilli P, Kristensen RM, Balsamo M. 2009. Journal of Nematology 17 (1): 17-29 Heterolepidoderma caudosquamatum Hummon WD, Guadiz CJ. 2009. A new (Gastrotricha: Chaetonotida), a new species species of marine Gastrotricha from Maine, from brackish waters of Denmark. Zootaxa USA: Tetranchyroderma mainensis 2173: 49-54 (Macrodasyida, Thaumastodermatidae). Guidi L, Ferraguti M, Todaro MA, et al. 2009. Marine Biology Research 5 (4): 385-390 Unusual spermatozoa and reproductive Hummon WD, Todaro MA. 2009. Italian modalities of Xenodasys eknomios marine Gastrotricha: VI. Seven new species (Gastrotricha: Xenodasyidae). Italian of Macrodasyida. Zootaxa 2278: 47-68 Journal of Zoology 76 (2): 165-172 Huys R, Lee W. 2009. Proposal of Marbefia, Guidi-Guilvard LD, Thistle D, Khripounoff A, gen. n. and Inermiphonte, gen. n., including et al. 2009. Dynamics of benthic copepods updated keys to the species of and other meiofauna in the benthic Pseudonychocamptus Lang, 1944 and boundary layer of the deep NW Paralaophonte Lang, 1948 (Copepoda,
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 9 Harpacticoida, Laophontidae). Zookeys 23: Association of the United Kingdom 89 (4): 1-38 A1-A7 Huys R, Mackenzie-Dodds J, Llewellyn- Kihara TC, Huys R. 2009. A new genus of Hughes J. 2009. Cancrincolidae (Copepoda, Ectinosomatidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) Harpacticoida) associated with land crabs: from sublittoral sediments in Ubatuba, Sao A semiterrestrial leaf of the ameirid tree. Paulo State (Brazil), an updated key to Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 51 genera and notes on Noodtiella Wells, 1965. (2): 143-156 Zookeys 17: 57-88 Huys R. 2009. On the junior subjective Kihara TC, Huys R. 2009. Contributions to synonyms of Coullia Hamond, 1973 the taxonomy of the Normanellidae (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Laophontidae): (Copepoda, Harpacticoida): description of a an update and key to species and related new genus from the Brazilian continental genera. Zookeys 5: 33-40 shelf and re-assignment of Pseudocletodes Huys R. 2009. Unresolved cases of type vararensis Scott & Scott, 1893 (ex fixation, synonymy and homonymy in Nannopodidae). Zootaxa 2233: 1-38 harpacticoid copepod nomenclature Kolasinski J, Frouin P, Sallon A, et al. 2009. (Crustacea: Copepoda). Zootaxa 2183: 1-99 Feeding ecology and ontogenetic dietary Hwang U, Choi E, Kim D, et al. 2009. shift of yellowstripe goatfish Mulloidichthys Monophyly of the family Desmoscolecidae flavolineatus (Mullidae) at Reunion Island, (Nematoda, Demoscolecida) and its SW Indian Ocean. Marine Ecology- phylogenetic position inferred from 18S Progress Series 386: 181-195 rDNA sequences. Molecules and Cells 27 Kovacic M, La Mesa M. 2008. Feeding (5): 515-523 ecology of De Buen's goby, Buenia affinis, Ingels J, Kiriakoulakis K, Wolff GA, et al. in the Kvarner Area (Adriatic Sea). Vie et 2009. Nematode diversity and its relation to Milieu-Life and Environment 58 (3-4): 249- the quantity and quality of sedimentary 256 organic matter in the deep Nazare Canyon, Kruck NC, Chargulaf CA, Saint-Paul U, et al. Western Iberian Margin. Deep-Sea 2009. Early post-settlement habitat and diet Research Part I-Oceanographic Research shifts and the nursery function of tidepools Papers 56 (9): 1521-1539 during Sillago spp. recruitment in Moreton Kanneby T, Todaro MA, Jondelius U. One Bay, Australia. Marine Ecology-Progress new species and records of Ichthydium Series 384: 207-219 Ehrenberg, 1830 (Gastrotricha: Lampadariou N, Tselepides A, Hatziyanni E. Chaetonotida) from Sweden with a key to 2009. Deep-sea meiofaunal and the genus. Zootaxa 2278: 26-46 foraminiferal communities along a gradient Karanovic TV, Hancock P. 2009. On the of primary productivity in the eastern diagnostic characters of the genus Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina 73 (2): Stygonitocrella (Copepoda, Harpacticoida), 337-345 with descriptions of seven new species from Leasi F, Ricci C. 2010. Musculature of two Australian subterranean waters. Zootaxa bdelloid rotifers, Adineta ricciae and 2324: 1-85 Macrotrachela quadricornifera: Kieneke A, Zekely J. 2009. Desmodasys organization in a functional and abyssalis sp nov.-first record of a deep-sea evolutionary perspective. Journal of gastrotrich from hydrothermal vents. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Journal of the Marine Biological Research 48 (1): 33-39
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 10 Lecroq B, Gooday AJ, Pawlowski J. 2009. Mirto S, Bianchelli S, Gambi C, et al. 2010. Global genetic homogeneity in the deep-sea Fish-farm impact on metazoan meiofauna in foraminiferan Epistominella exigua the Mediterranean Sea: Analysis of regional (Rotaliida: Pseudoparrellidae). Zootaxa vs. habitat effects. Marine Environmental 2096: 23-32 Research 69 (1): 38-47 Leduc D, Probert PK, Duncan A. 2009. A Nam EJ, Lee W. 2009. On the first swimming multi-method approach for identifying leg of Rhizothrix sejongi Nam & Lee, 2005 meiofaunal trophic connections. Marine (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Rhizothricidae), Ecology-Progress Series 383: 95-111 with an amended key to species of the Lee JM, Chang CY. 2009. Two groundwater genus Rhizothrix. Proceedings of the copepods of the Genus Parastenocaris Biological Society of Washington 122 (2): (Harpacticoida, Parastenocarididae) from 212-214 South Korea. Animal Cells and Systems 13 Netto SA, Valgas I. 2010. The response of (2): 169-178 nematode assemblages to intensive mussel Levin LA, Mendoza GF, Konotchick T, et al. farming in coastal sediments (Southern 2009. Macrobenthos community structure Brazil). Environmental Monitoring and and trophic relationships within active and Assessment 162 (1-4): 81-93 inactive Pacific hydrothermal sediments. Nielsen DL, Gigney H, Watson G. 2010. Deep-Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies Riverine habitat heterogeneity: the role of in Oceanography 56 (19-20) SI: 1632-1648 slackwaters in providing hydrologic buffers Lima RDC, Lins L, Da Silva MC, et al. 2009. for benthic microfauna. Hydrobiologia 638 Four new species of Syringolaimus De Man, (1): 181-191 1888 (Nematoda: Ironidae) from the Pascal PY, Dupuy C, Richard P, et al. 2009. Southeast Atlantic (Brazil), with Seasonal variation in consumption of redefinition of valid species and the benthic bacteria by meio- and macrofauna proposal of a new key. Zootaxa 2096: 119- in an intertidal mudflat. Limnology and 136 Oceanography 54 (4): 1048-1059 Maria TF, Esteves AM, Smol N, et al. 2009. Pesic V , Chatterjee T, Chan BKK, Ingole B. Chromaspirina guanabarensis sp n. 2008. New records of marine water mites (Nematoda: Desmodoridae) and a new (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Pontarachnidae) from illustrated dichotomous key to Taiwan, Korea and India, with the first Chromaspirina species. Zootaxa 2092: 21- description of the male of Pontarachna 36 australis Smit, 2003. Systematics and Menzel L, George KH. 2009. 122 Description Applied Acarology 13 (1): 72-74 of four new species of Mesocletodes Sars, Pešić V, Chatterjee T, De Troch M, Ingole B. 1909 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, 2009. New records of marine water mites Argestidae) and redescription of (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Pontarachnidae) from Mesocletodes robustus Por, 1965 from the the Pujada Bay (west Pacific Ocean) and the South Atlantic, including remarks on the Andaman Sea (Indian ocean). Acta Mesocletodes abyssicola-group. Zootaxa Entomologica Serbica 14 (1): 129-132 2096: 214-256 Pešić V, Chatterjee T, Herrera-Martinez Y, Merckx B, Goethals P, Steyaert M, et al. 2009. Herrando-Perez S. 2010. Wandesia Predictability of marine nematode (Partnuniella) lehmanni – a new water mite biodiversity. Ecological Modelling 220 species (Acari: Hydrachnidia, (11): 1449-1458 Hydryphantidae) from a high-altitude lake
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 11 in the Colombian Andes. International Dactylopodola species (Gastrotricha, Journal of Acarology 36 (1): 53-58 Macrodasyida). Zoomorphology 128 (3): Petersen DG, Sundback K, Larson F, et al. 227-246 2009. Pyrene toxicity is affected by the Rubal M, Guilhermino LM, Medina MH. nutrient status of a marine sediment 2009. Individual, population and community: Implications for risk community level effects of subtle assessment. Aquatic Toxicology 95 (1): 37- anthropogenic contamination in estuarine 43 meiobenthos. Environmental Pollution 157 Pillay D, Branch GM, Steyn A. 2009. (10): 2751-2758 Complex effects of the gastropod Assiminea Santos PJP, Botter-Carvalho ML, do globulus on benthic community structure in Nascimento AB, et al. 2009. Response of a marine-dominated lagoon. Journal of estuarine meiofauna assemblage to effects Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology of fertilizer enrichment used in the sugar 380 (1-2): 47-52 cane monoculture, Pernambuco, Brazil. Plum C, Arbizu PM. Discovery of Brazilian Journal of Oceanography 57 (1): Smacigastes Ivanenko & Defaye, 2004 43-55 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Tegastidae) in a Schminke HK. 2009. Monodicaris gen. n. deep-sea cold seep, with the description of a (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, new species from the Gulf of Mexico. Parastenocarididae) from West Africa. Zootaxa 2096: 338-355 Crustaceana 82 (3): 367-378 Pusceddu A, Gambi C, Zeppilli D, et al. 2009. Sedlacek L, Thistle D, Carman KR, et al. Organic matter composition, metazoan 2009. Effects of carbon dioxide on deep-sea meiofauna and nematode biodiversity in harpacticoids revisited. Deep-Sea Research Mediterranean deep-sea sediments. Deep- Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers 56 Sea Research Part II-Topical Studies IN (6) : 1018-1025 Oceanography 56 (11-12): 755-762 Seifried S, Veit-Kohler G. 2010. Radziejewska T, Fenske C, Wawrzyniak- Redescription of Bradya typica Boeck, Wydrowska B, et al. 2009. The zebra 1873 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: mussel (Dreissena polymorpha) and the Ectinosomatidae) with the first description benthic community in a coastal Baltic of the male. Helgoland Marine Research 64 lagoon: another example of enhancement? (1): 1-20 Marine Ecology-an Evolutionary Soetaert K, Franco M, Lampadariou N, et al. Perspective 30: 138-150 2009. Factors affecting nematode biomass, Reddy YR, Schminke HK. 2009. Discovery of length and width from the shelf to the deep the genus Kinnecaris Jakobi, 1972 sea. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 392: (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, 123-132 Parastenocarididae) in Southeastern India, Soltwedel T, Mokievsky V, Schewe I, et al. with description of a new species. 2009. Yermak Plateau revisited: spatial and Crustaceana 82 (3): 311-326 temporal patterns of meiofaunal Ricketts ER, Kennett JP, Hill TM, et al. 2009. assemblages under permanent ice-coverage. Effects of carbon dioxide sequestration on Polar Biology 32 (8): 1159-1176 California margin deep-sea foraminiferal Song SJ, Ryu J, Khim JS, et al. 2010. assemblages. Marine Micropaleontology 72 Seasonal variability of community structure (3-4): 165-175 and breeding activity in marine phytal Rothe BH, Schmidt-Rhaesa A. 2009. harpacticoid copepods on Ulva pertusa Architecture of the nervous system in two
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 12 from Pohang, east coast of Korea. Journal Northeastern Brazil with description of the of Sea Research 63 (1): 1-10 deep-sea species Kliopsyllus minor sp nov. Sorensen MV, Heiner I, Hansen JG. 2009. A Zootaxa 2096: 327-337 comparative morphological study of the Veit-Kohler G, Drewes J. 2009. Kliopsyllus kinorhynch genera Antygomonas and schminkei sp n. (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Semnoderes (Kinorhyncha: Cyclorhagida). Paramesochridae)-a new copepod from the Helgoland Marine Research 63 (2): 129-147 southeast Atlantic deep sea (Angola Basin). Sorensen MV, Rho HS. 2009. Triodontoderes Zootaxa 2096: 313-326 anulap gen. et sp nov.-a new cyclorhagid Veit-Kohler G, Gerdes D, Quiroga E, et al. kinorhynch genus and species from 2009. Metazoan meiofauna within the Micronesia. Journal of the Marine oxygen-minimum zone off Chile: Results of Biological Association of the United the 2001-PUCK expedition. Deep-Sea Kingdom 89 (6): 1269-1279 Research Part II-Topical Studies in Spilmont N, Meziane T, Seuront L, et al. Oceanography 56 (16): 1093-1099 2009. Identification of the food sources of Vezzulli L, Pezzati E, Moreno M, et al. 2009. sympatric ghost shrimp (Trypaea Benthic ecology of Vibrio spp. and australiensis) and soldier crab (Mictyris pathogenic Vibrio species in a coastal longicarpus) populations using a lipid Mediterranean environment (La Spezia biomarker, dual stable isotope approach. Gulf, Italy). Microbial Ecology 58 (4): 808- Austral Ecology 34 (8): 878-888 818 Todaro MA, Dal Zotto M, Maiorova AS, et al. Wetzel A. 2009. The preservation potential of 2009. A new species of Aspidiophorus ash layers in the deep-sea: the example of (Gastrotricha, Chaetonotida) from the the 1991-Pinatubo ash in the South China Russian Far East with a key to marine Sea. Sedimentology 56 (7): 1992-2009 species of the genus. Marine Biology Whomersley P, Huxham M, Schratzberger M, Research 5 (3): 297-303 et al. 2009. Differential response of meio- Urban-Malinga B, Burska D. 2009. The and macrofauna to in situ burial. Journal of colonization of macroalgal wrack by the the Marine Biological Association of the meiofauna in the Arctic intertidal. Estuarine United Kingdom 89 (6): 1091-1098 Coastal and Shelf Science 85 (4): 666-670 Willen E, Dittmar J. 2009. A new genus of Van Colen C, Montserrat F, Verbist K, et al. Pseudomesochrinae Willen, 1996 2009. Tidal flat nematode responses to (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, hypoxia and subsequent macrofauna- Pseudotachidiidae) from the Guinea Basin. mediated alterations of sediment properties. Zootaxa 2096: 287-298 Marine Ecology-Progress Series 381: 189- Willen E. 2009. Nyxis rostrocularis, a new 197 genus and species of Paranannopinae Por, Van Gaever S, Galeron J, Sibuet M, et al. 1986 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from the 2009. Deep-sea habitat heterogeneity Southern Atlantic deep sea. Zootaxa 2096: influence on meiofaunal communities in the 299-312 Gulf of Guinea. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii- Witek A, Herlyn H, Ebersberger I, et al. 2009. Topical Studies in Oceanography 56 (23): Support for the monophyletic origin of 2259-2269 Gnathifera from phylogenomics. Molecular Vasconcelos DM, Veit-Kohler G, Drewes J, et Phylogenetics and Evolution 53 (3): 1037- al. 2009. First record of the genus 1041 Kliopsyllus Kunz, 1962 (Copepoda Zaleha K, Jamaludin FI. 2010. Culture and Harpacticoida, Paramesochridae) from growth of a marine harpacticoid,
This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 13 Pararobertsonia sp in different salinity and temperature. Sains Malaysiana 39 (1): 135- 140 Zhuo K, Wang HH, Liao JL. 2010. Neodolichodorus sinensis sp nov (Nematoda: Dolichodoridae) from China. Zootaxa 2362: 63-68
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