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The Newsletter of the International Association of Meiobenthologists

Number 152, August 2009

Composed and Printed at: Department of Zoology Federal University of Pernambuco Recife, PE, 50670-420 BRAZIL

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July 12-16, 2010

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 1 The International Association of Meiobenthologists Executive 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]]

Ex-Officio Executive Committee (Past Chairpersons) 1966-67 Robert Higgins 1984-86 Olav Giere Founding Editor 1968-69 W. Duane Hope 1987-89 John Fleeger 1970-71 John Gray 1990-92 Richard Warwick 1972-73 Wilfried Westheide 1993-95 Paul Montagna 1974-75 Bruce Coull 1996-98 Magda Vincx 1976-77 Jeanne Renaud-Mornant 1999-2001 Yoshihisa Shirayama 1978-79 William Hummon 2002-04 John Lambshead 1980-81 Robert Higgins 2005-07 Keith Walters 1982-83 Carlo Heip

Board of Correspondents Antonio Todaro Dipartimento di Biologia Animale, Univeristy di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Via Campi 213/d, I-41100 Modena, Italy Teresa Radziejewska Department of Palaeoceanology, University of Szczecin, ul. Mickiewicza 18, 70-383 Szczecin, Poland

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This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 2 Editorial

Bom dia! Next Conference In my first Editorial I suggested that the exchange of information about on- going Projects, student training The International Association of opportunities/courses, occurrences of Meiobenthologists is pleased to invite known (or unknown) taxa and several you to participate in its 14th other activities may possibly increase International Meiofauna Conference – our networking. Such information FourtIMCo – in Ghent, Belgium, from would increase interactions among July 12th – 16th 2010. members and hence inject some new blood in IAM. Despite this Full registration + abstract submission encouragement few members are deadline: 15/03/2010. sending news of their activities that could be useful for others. Well, I am More details in: trying an alternative way. Gathering http://www.fourtimco.ugent.be/index.asp recent literature enabled me to see how many people are publishing on meiofauna but are still not members of Workshop IAM. I am thus making use of this list of people/mails to invite them to come to Fourtimco (I expect they will not be The Census of Marine Life project bothered by my emails) and also to ChEss (Biogeography of Deep-Water become members of our association. Chemosynthetic Ecosystems) is Nevertheless I insist that exchanging organizing a workshop on ‘Meiofauna back-stage information will prove most from chemosynthetic deep-sea helpful for maintaining the Association environments’ in conjunction with the health. Send your news! 14th International Meiofauna Conference at the Ghent University Cheers, August, 17 2010. This workshop is Paulo organized by Monika Bright and Ann

Vanreusel and we would like to invite you to attend for free. The aim of this workshop is to bring together meiofauna researchers who are interested in any biological aspect

concerning deep- sea reducing environments, such as hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, whale falls, sunken

wood, and areas of low oxygen that intersect with continental margins and seamounts.

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 3 We will have sessions in which we will Bloomington, IL 61702-2900, USA. discuss the current state of knowledge Phone: 309-556-1063. of biogeography, biodiversity and e-mail: [email protected] abundance, ecology, origin and evolution, morphological and molecular Susan M. Sewell, 790 County Road 37, phylogeny, and , and future Leesburg, AL USA. Phone: 256-526- plans. Further we will discuss the 7335. possiblities of multidisciplinary and e-mail: [email protected] integrative research, building a platform of researchers to combine our Eric N. Powell, 6959 Miller Ave., Port efforts in databases, field programmes, Norris, NS 08349, USA Phone: 856- and outreach activities. 785-0074 x4309. e-mail: [email protected] Webpage: http://www.hydrothermalvent.com/php/c Hiroshi Yamasaki, Division of Natural hess-workshop.html History Sciences, Hokkaido University Kita 10 Nishi 8 Sapporo 0600810 Japan Registration: email to Monika Bright e-mail: [email protected] [email protected] Emil Ólafsson (new address) Deadline of registration June 30, 2010 I.E.O.- Centre Oceanogràfic de les Balears P.O. Box 291 Any questions and suggestions: email to 07080 Palma (Spain) Monika Bright Phone: (34) 971401877 [email protected] Fax: (34) 971404945 E-mail: [email protected] http://www.ieo.es New Members

Stephen C. Landers, 219A MSCS Dept. Gastrotricha project Bio. Env. Sci., Troy University, Troy, AL 36082, USA . Phone: 334-670-3661. The US-NSF has funded a 3-year e-mail: [email protected] project entitled “An International Approach to the Biodiversity, Frank A. Romano III, Dept. Biology, Biogeography and Evolution of Jacksonville State Univ., 700 Pecham Caribbean Gastrotricha” PI is Rick Rd. N., Jacksonville, AL 36265, USA Hochberg (UM-Lovell-USA), other Phone: 256-782-5038 people involved are W.D. Hummon e-mail: [email protected] (USA), M.A. Todaro (Italy), C.Y. Chang Interests: Meiofauna of the Gulf of (Korea), A. Schmidt-Rhaesa (Germany), Mexico, Tardigrades A. Kieneke (Germany) and S.Z: Togouet (Cameroon). William Jaeckle, Dept. of Biology, Illinois Wesleyan Univ., P.O. Box 2900,

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 4 Goals of the Project. The proposed findings at conferences and in regional research (2010-2012) will be the most and international journals. comprehensive survey of marine International conferences and journals gastrotrichs from the western targeted by our project members hemisphere. The primary goals are as include: SICB, International Meiofauna follows: Conference, Caribbean Journal of 1. To survey, collect and catalogue Science, Invertebrate Biology, Journal marine gastrotrichs from a variety of of Morphology, Molecular Phylogenetics diverse habitats in the wider Caribbean. and Evolution, Zoologischer Anzeiger, This objective includes A) the Zoologica Scripta, Zootaxa identification of species-rich habitats 4. Enhance molecular databases within four marine ecoregions and B) through the sequencing of genes (coxI, determination if individual SIDS have 18S, 28S). Specific databases include distinct faunal assemblages. SIDS and the following: Genbank, Consortium for specific islands of interest include the the Barcode of Life, Moorea Biocode following: Bahamas - Perry Institute, Database Bahamas - Gerace, Barbados - Bellairs 5. Test hypotheses of cryptic speciation, Institute, Belize - Carrie Bow Cay, organ system evolution, and Bocas del Toro, Panama – STRI, phylogeny Cayman Islands- CCMI, Curacao – 6. Train multinational undergraduate CARMABI, Grenada – SGU, Jamaica – and graduate students in gastrotrich DMBL, Turks-Caicos – CMRS, US systematics and provide Training in Virgin Islands - VIERS Tropical Taxonomy Workshop to 2. Amend current electronic databases Central and South American students and build new museum archives in the with an interest in meiobenthology. USA, Central and South America, and internationally. Museums targeted for enhanced meiofauna collections include: Instituto de Biologia at the Universidad Course Nacional Autónoma de México, National Zoological Collection of Suriname, Jon Norenburg (NMNH) and Rachel University of Suriname, Smithsonian Collin (STRI) are offering some Institute National Museum of Natural vacancies for participants in the History, American Museum of Natural Meiofauna Diversity and Taxonomy History, Zoological Museum of the Course that will occur between the 7th University of Hamburg, Germany, The and 18 June, 2010 at Bocas Research Natural History Museum of Denmark, Station, Bocas del Toro, Panama. Copenhagen, Denmark, Natural History Museum of Ewha Womans University, Please see more information about the South Korea. course and application procedures at: 3. Construct CD-ROM, print and http://striweb.si.edu/taxonomy_training/ internet guides to the taxonomy of future_courses/2010/2010_encyclopedia_ Caribbean Gastrotricha, and present of_life.html new systematic and biogeographic

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 5 Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies Recent Literature in Oceanography 55 (24-26): 2617-2626 Boeckner MJ, Sharma J, Proctor HC. 2009. Adao H, Alves AS, Patricio J, et al. 2009. Revisiting the meiofauna paradox: Spatial distribution of subtidal Nematoda dispersal and colonization of nematodes communities along the salinity gradient in and other meiofaunal organisms in low- southern European estuaries. Acta and high-energy environments. Oecologica-International Journal of Hydrobiologia 624 (1): 91-106 Ecology 35 (2): 287-300 Bogut I, Vidakovic J, Cerba D, et al. 2009. Armenteros M, Williams JP, Creagh B, et al. Epiphytic meiofauna in stands of 2008. Spatial and temporal variations of different submerged macrophytes. Ekoloji meiofaunal communities from the 18 (70): 1-9 western sector of the Gulf of Batabano, Bollmohr S, van den Brink PJ, Wade PW, et Cuba: III. Vertical distribution. Revista de al. 2009. Spatial and temporal variability Biologia Tropical 56 (3): 1127-1134 in particle-bound pesticide exposure and Artigas J, Romani AM, Sabater S. 2008. their effects on benthic community Relating nutrient molar ratios of microbial structure in a temporarily open estuary. attached communities to organic matter Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 82 utilization in a forested stream. (1): 50-60 Fundamental and Applied Limnology 173 Brancelj A. 2009. Fauna of an unsaturated (3): 255-264 karstic zone in Central Slovenia: two new Baguley JG, Montagna PA, Hyde LJ, et al. species of (Crustacea: 2008. Metazoan meiofauna biomass, Copepoda), Elaphoidella millennii n. sp grazing, and weight-dependent and E. tarmani n. sp., their ecology and respiration in the Northern Gulf of Mexico morphological adaptations. Hydrobiologia deep sea. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii- 621: 85-104 Topical Studies in Oceanography 55 (24- Cibic T, Blasutto O, Bettoso N., 2009. 26): 2607-2616 Microalgal-meiofaunal interactions in a Bartsch I. 2009. Checklist of marine and sublittoral site of the Gulf of Trieste freshwater halacarid mite genera and (northern Adriatic Sea, Italy): A three- species (Halacaridae: Acari) with notes on year study. Journal of Experimental synonyms, habitats, distribution and Marine Biology and Ecology 370 (1-2): descriptions of the taxa. Zootaxa 1998: 3- 144-154 170 Cordell JR, Draheim R, Sytsma M. 2007. First Bayartogtokh B, Chatterjee T, Chan BKK, et record of the harpacticoid genus al. 2009. New Species of Marine Littoral Harpacticella in the Pacific Northwest, Mites (Acari: Oribatida) from Taiwan USA: another probable introduction. and India, with a Key to the World's Aquatic Biology 1 (1): 17-20 Species of Fortuynia and Notes on Their Corgosinho PHC, Arbizu PM, Reid JW. 2008. Distributions. Zoological Studies 48 (2): Revision of the genus Murunducaris 243-261 (Copepoda: Harpacticoida: Bernhard JM, Sen Gupta BK, Baguley JG. Parastenocarididae), with descriptions of 2008. Benthic foraminifera living in Gulf two new species from South America. of Mexico bathyal and abyssal sediments: Journal of Biology 28 (4): 700- Community analysis and comparison to 720 metazoan meiofaunal biomass and density.

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 6 De Troch M, Chepurnov VA, Vincx M, et al. model. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf 2008. The effect of Fucus vesiculosus on Science 79 (3): 409-418 the grazing of harpacticoid on Fonseca G, Decraemer W. 2008. State of the diatom biofilms. Journal of Sea Research art of the free-living marine 60 (3): 139-143 Monhysteridae (Nematoda). Journal of the De Troch M, Cnudde C, Vyverman W, et al. Marine Biological Association of the 2009. Increased production of faecal United Kingdom 88 (7 SI): 1371-1390 pellets by the benthic harpacticoid Frenzel P, Borrmann C, Lauenburg B, et al. Paramphiascella fulvofasciata: 2009. Environmental impact assessment importance of the food source Marine of sediment dumping in the southern Biology 156 (3): 469-477 Baltic Sea using meiofaunal indicators. Defaye D, Reddy YR. 2008. A new Journal of Marine Systems 75 (3-4): 430- Allocyclopina species (Copepoda, 440 Cyclopoida, Cyclopinidae) from a Galassi DMP, Huys R, Reid JW. 2009. hyporheic zone of the river Godavari, Diversity, ecology and evolution of India, and comments on the morphological groundwater copepods. Freshwater characters of the genus. Crustaceana 81 Biology 54 (4): 691-708 (9): 1119-1141 Gallucci F, Moens T, Vanreusel A, et al. 2008. Delgado JD, Riera R, Monterroso O, et al. Active colonisation of disturbed sediments 2009. Distribution and abundance of by deep-sea nematodes: evidence for the meiofauna in intertidal sand substrata patch mosaic model. Marine Ecology- around Iceland. Aquatic Ecology 43 (2): Progress Series 367: 173-183 221-233 Gambi C, Bianchelli S, Perez M, et al. 2009. Di Domenico M, Lana PD, Garraffoni ARS. Biodiversity response to experimental 2009. Distribution patterns of interstitial induced hypoxic-anoxic conditions in polychaetes in sandy beaches of southern seagrass sediments. Biodiversity and Brazil. Marine Ecology - an Evolutionary Conservation 18 (1): 33-54 Perspective 30 (1): 47-62 Gaudes A, Artigas J, Romani AM, et al. 2009. Elofsson R, Hessler RR. 2008. Two Contribution of microbial and microvillar organs, new to Crustacea, in invertebrate communities to leaf litter the Mystacocarida. Structure & colonization in a Mediterranean stream. Development 37 (6): 522-534 Journal of the North American Fanelli E, Cartes JE, Badalamenti F, et al. Benthological Society 28 (1: 34-43 2009. Trophodynamics of suprabenthic Gopalakrishna K, Shabi B, Bilwa LM. 2008. fauna on coastal muddy bottoms of the Distribution of ostracode assemblages southern Tyrrhenian Sea (western along the nearshore and offshore areas of Mediterranean). Journal of Sea Research Malabar coast, Kerala (west coast of 61 (3): 174-187 India). Indian Journal of Marine Sciences Fenchel T, Finlay B. 2008. Oxygen and the 37 (3): 298-306 Spatial Structure of Microbial Grzelak K, Kotwicki L, Szczucinski W. 2009. Communities. Biological Reviews 83 (4): Monitoring of Sandy Beach Meiofaunal 553-569 Assemblages and Sediments after the Ferrero TJ, Debenham NJ, Lambshead PJD. 2004 Tsunami in Thailand. Polish Journal 2008. The nematodes of the Thames of Environmental Studies 18 (1): 43-51 estuary: Assemblage structure and Gutierrez D, Enriquez E, Purca S, et al. 2008. biodiversity, with a test of Attrill's linear Oxygenation episodes on the continental

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 7 shelf of central Peru: Remote forcing and the Marine Biological Association of the benthic ecosystem response. Progress in United Kingdom 89 (1): 109-117 Oceanography 79 (2-4 SI): 177-189 Huang Y, Zhang ZN. 2009. Two new species Hayward BW, Grenfell HR, Sabaa AT, et al. of Enoplida (Nematoda) from the Yellow 2008. Ecological impact of the Sea, China. Journal of Natural History 43 introduction to New Zealand of Asian date (17-18): 1083-1092 mussels and cordgrass - The Hummon WD. 2009. Tetranchyroderma foraminiferal, ostracod and molluscan parapapii n. sp. (Gastrotricha, record. Estuaries and Coasts 31 (5): 941- Thaumastodermatidae), a North 959 American analog to the European T. papii, Hazra AK, Mitra B. 2008. Scopes and trends with a redescription of the latter. of Antarctic invertebrate faunal research Meiofauna Marina 17:121-132 with special reference to Southern ocean, Hummon WD, Gadiz CJ. 2009. A new species east Antarctica and Schirmacher oasis. of marine Gastrotricha from Maine, USA: Indian Journal of Marine Sciences 37 (4): Tetranchyroderma mainensis 450-454 (Macrodasyida, Thaumastodermatidae). Heiner I, Kristensen RM. 2009. Urnaloricus Marine Biology Research 5:385-390 gadi nov gen. et nov sp (Loricifera, Irabien MJ, Cearreta A, Leorri E, et al. 2008. Urnaloricidae nov fam.), an aberrant A 130 year record of pollution in the Loricifera with a viviparous pedogenetic Suances estuary (southern Bay of Biscay): life cycle. Journal of Morphology 270 (2): Implications for environmental 129-153 management. Marine Pollution Bulletin 56 Hermi M, Mahmoudi E, Beyrem H, et al. (10): 1719-1727 2009. Responses of a Free-Living Marine Karanovic T, Eberhard SM. 2009. Second Nematode Community to Mercury representative of the order Misophrioida Contamination: Results from Microcosm (Crustacea, Copepoda) from Australia Experiments. Archives of Environmental challenges the hypothesis of the Tethyan Contamination and Toxicology 56 (3): origin of some anchialine faunas. Zootaxa 426-433 2059: 51-68 Higuti J, Meisch C, Martens K. 2009. On Kieneke A, Ahlrichs WH, Arbizu PM. 2009. Paranacypris samambaiensis gen. nov., Morphology and function of reproductive sp nov (Crustacea, Ostracoda), the first organs in Neodasys chaetonotoideus South American psychrodromid from the (Gastrotricha: Neodasys) with a alluvial valley of the Upper Parana River, phylogenetic assessment of the Brazil. Journal of Natural History 43 (13- reproductive system in Gastrotricha. 14): 769-783 Zoologica Scripta 38 (3): 289-311 Hourston M, Potter IC, Warwick RM, et al. Kieneke A, Arbizu PM, Riemann O. 2008. 2009. Spatial and seasonal variations in Body Musculature of Stylochaeta the ecological characteristics of the free- scirtetica and Dasydytes (Setodyes) living nematode assemblages in a large tongiorgii (Gastrotricha: Dasydytidae): A microtidal estuary. Estuarine Coastal and Functional Approach. Journal of Shelf Science 82 (2): 309-322 Morphology 269 (12): 1491-1492 Hua E, Zhang ZN, Zhang Y. 2009. Kiko R, Kramer M, Spindler M, et al. 2008. Environmental factors affecting nematode Tergipes antarcticus (Gastropoda, community structure in the Changjiang Nudibranchia): distribution, life cycle, Estuary and its adjacent waters. Journal of morphology, anatomy and adaptation of

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 8 the first mollusc known to live in Antarctic Leduc D, Probert PK. 2009. The effect of sea ice. Polar Biology 31 (11): 1383- bacterivorous nematodes on detritus 1395 incorporation by macrofaunal detritivores: Kilvington CC, Collins AG, Kosevich IA, et A study using stable isotope and fatty al. 2008. Protohydra leuckarti near acid analyses. Journal of Experimental Plymouth. Journal of the Marine Marine Biology and Ecology 371 (2): 130- Biological Association of the United 139 Kingdom 88 (8 SI): 1555-1557 Leduc D. 2009. Description of Oncholaimus Knudsen SW, Kirkegaard M, Olesen J. 2009. moanae sp nov (Nematoda: The tantulocarid genus Arcticotantalus Oncholaimidae), with notes on feeding removed from Basipodellidae into ecology based on isotopic and fatty acid Deoterthridae (Crustacea: ) composition. Journal of the Marine after the description of a new species from Biological Association of the United Greenland, with first live photographs and Kingdom 89 (2): 337-344 an overview of the class. Zootaxa 2035: Lee JM, Chang CY. 2008. A new species of 41-68 the rarely known genus Apolethon Konigshoff D, Glatzel T. 2008. Mating (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, behaviour of the 'cosmopolitan' species Laophontidae) from brackish waters of Phyllognathopus viguieri (Copepoda: Korea. Cells and Systems 12 (4): Harpacticoida) and its systematical 249-259 significance. Journal of Zoological Lee JM, Hwang UW, Chang CY. 2009. A Systematics and Evolutionary Research 46 New Gastrotrich Species of the Genus (4): 297-309 Ptychostomella (Macrodasyida, Krisper G, Schuster R. 2008. Fortuynia Thaumastodermatidae) from South Korea. atlantica sp nov., a thalassobiontic oribatid Animal Cells and Systems 13 (1): 25-30 mite from the rocky coast of the Bermuda Liu XS, Cheung SG, Shin PKS. 2009. islands (Acari: Oribatida: Fortuyniidae). Meiofauna with special reference to Annales Zoologici 58 (2): 419-432 nematodes in trawling ground of Kristensen RM, Guidi L, Pierboni L, et al. subtropical Hong Kong. Marine Pollution 2008. Diuronotus aspetos (Gastrotricha): Bulletin 58 (4): 607-615 New Morphological Data and Description Medina MH, Morandi B, Correa JA. 2008. of the Spermatozoon. Journal of Copper effects in the Tigriopus Morphology 269 (12): 1490-1491 angulatus Lang, 1933: natural broad Leasi F, Todaro MA. 2009. Meiofaunal tolerance allows maintenance of food cryptic species revealed by confocal webs in copper-enriched coastal areas. microscopy: the case of Xenotrichula Marine and Freshwater Research 59 (12): intermedia (Gastrotricha). Marine Biology 1061-1066 156 (6): 1335-1346 Mokievsky VO. 2009. Quantitative Leduc D, Gwyther J. 2008. Description of distribution of the meiobenthos in the new species of Setosabatieria and Large Aral Sea in 2003 and 2004. Journal Desmolaimus (Nematoda: Monhysterida) of Marine Systems 76 (3 SI): 336-342 and a checklist of New Zealand free-living Moreno M, Vezzulli L, Marin V, et al. The marine nematode species. New Zealand use of meiofauna diversity as an indicator Journal of Marine and Freshwater of pollution in harbours. ICES Journal of Research 42 (3): 339-362 Marine Science 65 (8): 1428-1435

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 9 Mouritsen KN, Haun SCB. 2008. Community feeder Hydrobia ulvae and comparison regulation by herbivore parasitism and with Meiofauna. Journal of Sea Research density: Trait-mediated indirect 60 (3): 151-156 interactions in the intertidal. Journal of Pesic V, Chatterjee T, Abada AEA. 2008. Experimental Marine Biology and Marine water mites (Acari: Hydrachnidia: Ecology 367 (2): 236-246 Pontarachnidae) from the Red Sea, with Muschiol D, Markovic M, Threis I, et al. description of one new species. Cahiers de 2008. Predatory copepods can control Biologie Marine 49 (4): 375-379 nematode populations: A functional- Pesic V, Chatterjee T, Schizas NV. 2008. response experiment with Eucyclops Marine water mites (Acari : subterraneus and bacterivorous Hydrachnidia : Pontarachnidae) from nematodes. Fundamental and Applied the Caribbean Sea, with description of one Limnology 172 (4): 317-324 new species. Cahiers de Biologie Marine Muschiol D, Traunspurger W. 2009. Life at 49 (3): 253-259 the extreme: meiofauna from three Pillay D, Perissinotto R. 2009. Community unexplored lakes in the caldera of the structure of epibenthic meiofauna in the Cerro Azul volcano, Galapagos Islands, St. Lucia Estuarine Lake (South Africa) Ecuador. Aquatic Ecology 43 (2): 235-248 during a drought phase. Estuarine Coastal Nascimento FJA, Karlson AML, Elmgren R. and Shelf Science 81 (1): 94-104 2008. Settling blooms of filamentous Piraino S, Bluhm BA, Gradinger R, et al. cyanobacteria as food for meiofauna 2008. Sympagohydra tuuli gen. nov and sp assemblages. Limnology and nov (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) a cool hydroid Oceanography 53 (6): 2636-2643 from the Arctic sea ice. Journal of the Nascimento FJA, Karlson AML, Naslund J, et Marine Biological Association of the al. 2009. Settling cyanobacterial blooms United Kingdom 88 (8 SI): 1637-1641 do not improve growth conditions for Pugh PJA, Convey P. 2008. Surviving out in soft bottom Meiofauna. Journal of the cold: Antarctic endemic invertebrates Experimental Marine Biology and and their refugia. Journal of Biogeography Ecology 368 (2): 138-146 35 (12): 2176-2186 Netto SA, Gallucci F, Fonseca G. 2009. Deep- Raes M, Decraemer W, Vanreusel A. 2008. sea meiofauna response to synthetic- Walking with worms: coral-associated based drilling mud discharge off SE epifaunal nematodes. Journal of Brazil. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Biogeography 35 (12): 2207-2222 Studies in Oceanography 56 (1-2): 41-49 Raes M, Decraemer W, Vanreusel A. 2009. Netto SA, Pereira TJ. 2009. Benthic Draconematidae (Nematoda) from cold- community response to a passive fishing water corals in the Porcupine Seabight: gear in a coastal lagoon (South Brazil). The genus Cygnonema Allen & Aquatic Ecology 43 (2): 521-538 Noffsinger, 1978. Organisms Diversity & Norling P, Kautsky N. 2008. Patches of the Evolution 9 (1): 37-40 mussel Mytilus sp are islands of high Raes M, Decraemer W, Vanreusel A. 2009. biodiversity in subtidal sediment habitats Draconematidae (Nematoda) from cold- in the Baltic Sea. Aquatic Biology 4 (1): water corals in the Porcupine Seabight: 75-87 The genus Tenuidraconema Decraemer, Pascal PY, Dupuy C, Richard P, et al. 2008. 1989. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 9 Influence of environment factors on (1): 41-43 bacterial ingestion rate of the deposit-

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 10 Rahman MM, Hossain MY, Jo Q, et al. 2009. Schratzberger M, Lampadariou N, Somerfield Ontogenetic shift in dietary preference and P, et al. 2009. The impact of seabed low dietary overlap in rohu (Labeo rohita) disturbance on nematode communities: and common carp (Cyprinus carpio) in linking field and laboratory observations. semi-intensive polyculture ponds. Marine Biology 156 (4): 709-724 Ichthyological Research 56 (1): 28-36 Shang X, Zhang GS, Zhang J. 2008. Relative Reddy YR, Defaye D. 2009. Two new importance of vascular plants and algal Parastenocarididae (Copepoda, production in the food web of a Spartina- Harpacticoida) from India: Parastenocaris invaded salt marsh in the Yangtze River muvattupuzha n. sp from a river and P. estuary. Marine Ecology-Progress Series kotumsarensis n. sp from a cave. Zootaxa 367: 93-107 2077: 31-55 Shimanaga M, Lee W, Nomaki H, et al. 2009. Rowe GT, Kennicutt MC. 2008. Introduction Sex ratio and gut contents of the deep-sea to the Deep Gulf of Mexico Benthos harpacticoid Neocervinia itoi and other Program. Deep-Sea Research Part Ii- cerviniids: a possibility of reduced Topical Studies in Oceanography 55 (24- foraging among males. Journal of 26): 2536-2540 Crustacean Biology 29 (2): 183-191 Rowe GT, Wei CL, Nunnally C, et al. 2008. Siebert S, Anton-Erxleben F, Kiko R, et al. Comparative biomass structure and 2009. Sympagohydra tuuli (Cnidaria, estimated carbon flow in food webs in the Hydrozoa): first report from sea ice of the deep Gulf of Mexico. Deep-Sea Research central Arctic Ocean and insights into Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography histology, reproduction and locomotion. 55 (24-26): 2699-2711 Marine Biology 156 (4): 541-554 Rubal M, Veiga R, Besteiro C. 2009. Stoch F, Artheau M, Brancelj A, et al. 2009. Nematode/Copepod Index: importance of Biodiversity indicators in European sedimentary parameters, sampling ground waters: towards a predictive model methodology and baseline values. of stygobiotic species richness. Freshwater Thalassas 25 (1): 9-18 Biology 54 (4): 745-755 Sak S, Karaytug S, Huys R. 2008. Tod SP, Schmid-Araya JM. 2009. Meiofauna Ciplakastacus gen. nov., a primitive genus versus macrofauna: Secondary production of Leptastacidae (Copepoda, of invertebrates in a lowland chalk stream. Harpacticoida) from the Mediterranean Limnology and Oceanography 54 (2): 450- coast of Turkey. Journal of Natural 456 History 42 (37-38): 2443-2459 Tsujino M. 2008. Estimation of bottom Schminke HK. 2008. First report of conditions by using the benthos in groundwater fauna from Papua New Hiuchi-Nada and Bingo-Nada of the Seto Guinea: Kinnecaris Jakobi, 1972 redefined Inland Sea. Nippon Suisan Gakkaishi 74 (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, (6): 1043-1051 Parastenocarididae), and description of a Urban-Malinga B, Drgas A, Ameryk A, et al. new species. Crustaceana 81 (10): 1241- 2009. Meiofaunal (re)colonization of the 1253 Arctic intertidal (Hornsund, Spitsbergen) Schratzberger M, Forster RM, Goodsir F, et after ice melting: role of wrack deposition. al. 2008. Nematode community dynamics Polar Biology 32 (2): 243-252 over an annual production cycle in the Van Gaever S, Moodley L, Pasotti F, et al. central North Sea. Marine Environmental 2009. Trophic specialisation of metazoan Research 66 (5): 508-519 meiofauna at the Hayenkon Mosby Mud

This Newsletter is not part of the scientific literature for taxonomic purposes. 11 Volcano: fatty acid biomarker isotope Paradanielssenia Soyer, 1970. Organisms evidence. Marine Biology 156 (6): 1289- Diversity & Evolution 8 (4): 249-250 1296 Worsaae K, Rouse GW. 2008. Is Diurodrilus Van Gaever S, Olu K, Derycke S, et al. 2009. an Annelid? Journal of Morphology 269 Metazoan meiofaunal communities at cold (12): 1426-1455 seeps along the Norwegian margin: Yang WX, Dahms HU, Hwang JS. 2008. A Influence of habitat heterogeneity and review of karyological studies on the evidence for connection with shallow- Cyclopoida (Copepoda). Crustaceana 81 water habitats. Deep-Sea Research Part I- (10): 1229-1240 Oceanographic Research Papers 56 (5): Yasuhara M, Cronin TM. 2008. Climatic 772-785 influences on deep-sea ostracode van Lith Y, Langezaal AM, de Nooijer LJ, et (Crustacea) diversity for the last three al. 2009. Benthic foraminiferal effect on million years. Ecology 89 (11 SI): S53- nitrogen and carbon cycling. Journal of S65 Foraminiferal Research 39 (2): 97-111 Zvyagintsev AY, Ivin VV, Kashin IA, et al. Veiga P, Rubal M, Besteiro C. 2009. Shallow 2009. Acclimation and introduction of sublittoral meiofauna communities and hydrobionts ships' ballast water organisms sediment polycyclic aromatic in the Port of Vladivostok. Russian Journal hydrocarbons (PAHs) content on the of Marine Biology 35 (1): 41-52 Galician coast (NW Spain), six months after the Prestige oil spill. Marine Pollution Bulletin 58 (4): 581-588 Wandeness AP, George KH, Santos PJP. 2009. First record of the taxon Echinopsyllus (Copepoda, Harpacticoida, Ancorabolidae) from the deep sea of Editor’s Acknowledgments Campos Basin, Brazil, with the description

of three new species and their contribution For their help and contribution for this to phylogenetic analysis. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 156 (1): number, I would like to thank Jyotsna 52-78 Sharma for comments on a first draft of Warry FY, Hindell JS, Macreadie PI, et al. the issue, Adriane Wandeness for 2009. Integrating edge effects into studies gathering the recent literature and of habitat fragmentation: a test using Visnu Sarmento for gathering emails of meiofauna in seagrass. Oecologia 159 (4): meiofauna authors that are still not 883-892 IAM members. Widdicombe S, Dashfield SL, McNeill CL, et al. 2009. Effects of CO2 induced seawater acidification on infaunal diversity and sediment nutrient fluxes. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 379: 59- 75 Willen E. 2008. Pseudotachidiidae (Copepoda: Harpacticoida) from the Angola Basin and the Antarctic deep sea, with the description of a new species of

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