UNIVERSITETSQIBLIOTHKET H TROMS0 TROMS0 MUSEUM. AM PH IPOD NEWSLETTER EDITED BY: Vader ^ Trom$^ PRODUCED BY' Le$ WatUng, Unhenity of Mai/io ^:^msESSs^ I I iifi I iilwwii ■ ' -it-i ‘ifc'. , -.-i . ■- r. ■ i ! ! : i‘ 1 It is apparently unrealistic to aim at 2 issues of tiie rievvsletter each year; 3 in 2 years aiJpears to be the maximum frequency I am able to manage. This time the main reason for the delay has been the time-consuming "index-project", the first installments of which form the main course of AN 11,1 had not really expected any positive reactions to my request for volunteers for this tedious job, so I was very agreeably surprised to get a prompt offer for help from Dr. George I. Crawford in Northampton. Dr. Crawford has done virtually all the spadework for the index, while the department of Crustacea at the British Museum (Natural History) and the deparlment of Zoology at Tromso Museum have rendered clerical assistance. If the present "index to genera and above" is met with approval by you (lUease let us liear your comments), Dr. Crawford is willing to have a go at the "index to species" also. This is of course a still more formidable tasl< and it is unlikely to become avail- able before summer 1980, viz. in AN 13. From mid July 1979 to mid August 1980 I shall be away from Tromso, on sabbatical leave. Most of this year will be spent at Bodega Marine Lab., Bodega Bay, CA 9d923, USA, where 1 shall work on the biology of amphipod-sea anemone associations, particularly that between the Lysianassid Allogausia recondita and the aggregating sea anemone Anbhopleura elegan t issirna . I also intend to work for shorter periods at the Srni tlusoni an Institution in Washington, and the National Museum of Natural Sciences In Ottawa, and hope to get a chiance to visit also other "active amphipod centers", parti- cularly colleagues wiio woj'k on ampliii'jod associations and interti.dal ecology. My postal address throughout tlie year will bc' Bodega Marine Laboratory. This newsletter again contains a list of "regional editors", the former regional collectors. They have got a more impressive- sounding title, in the hope that this may stimulate both themselves and their "subjects" not only i send their money to them, but also to act as clearing-houses for "news from colleagues", requests for information, and particularly also assistance with Liic bib 1 i ograpiiy . 2 This last will be ^pficially important during 1979-1980, as the library facilities at Bodega Bay are meagre and 'will not allow me to carry on with the weekly two hours of scanning that has been the backbone of the bibliography-section hitherto. Les Watling has kindly offered to step in in this respect as far as possible, but also his department has an incomplete coverage of especially European literature. We must therefore ask you to please send your references (and reprints) to either bes or me, Some additional notes; The newsletter will be sent to subscribers outside of North America by air mail. I would appreciate hearing from you regarding the date of receipt of this newsletter which will be mailed on or before August 31, 1979. The deadline for the next A.N. will be 1 February 1980. I would like to remind everyone to send money and news to the regional editors or to myself or Wim Vader. The normal rate will be US $3.00 for two issues, but donations are also very welcome. Would you also check the address label to be certain it is accurate. If postal codes are used in your country and they are not on your label please send the appropriate postal code to me. This will greatly minimize (but probably not insure) the loss of your A.N. Past newsletters for the following persons have been retured; W.B. Rhoads, Georgia, USA: Henk Uennert, Holland; Xih-Hin Taiwan, If anyone knows their correct address please let me know* The cover for this issue is courtesy of Ur. Manolo Ortiz of Cuba. Additional contributions are needed for future issues. They may be sexioas or humorous but the size should be equivalent to the present design. Trorns 0 , 30. May 1.979. Wim Vader Les Watling 3 LIST OF REGIONAL EDITORS Austral j a Dr. W.D. Williams Dept of Zoology The University Adelaide (S. Austr. 5001), Australia Canada Dr. Diana Fi . Laubitz National Museum of Natural Sciences Ottawa , Ontario KIA 0M8 Canada Great-Dri tain Dr. Michael Thurston Institute of Oceanographical* Sciences Wormley ) Godaiming, Surrey England J apan Dr. Akira Taniguchi Lab. of Oceanography, Faculty of Agriculture Tohoku University Sendai 980, Japan USA-East of 110® W'. Long Dr. Les Watling Dept of Oceanography Ira C. Darling Center Univ. of Maine Walpole , Maine 04573 USA USA-West of 110° W. Long. John T. Chapman Dept of Biological Sciences Univ. of California Santa Barbara , CA 93106 USA (It would be nice to have regional editors also for France, Germany and the USSR). 4 FORTHCOMIINJG AMPHIPOD SYMPOSIUM POLAND 1980. Fifth International colloquium on Gammarus and Niphar^us and third international symposium on groundwater ecology Lodz- Czt^s bochowa , Poland - September 1980 . 1st Circular Letter Dear colleagues, We are glad to inform you that according to the wish of many partici- pants of our previous combined meeting in Schlitz and Blacksburg the 'successive conference will be held in Poland. The place of this meeting will be probably Burzenin near -Lodz and the program will in- clude also visit to Czestochowa. We invite you cordially to our country in early fall 1980/rnost pro- bably 7-13 Sep ternber/hop ing that daily costs of the stay in Poland will be not higher than those during the previous colloquia. The registration fee should be prepaid to: Bank Handlowy, ul . Trau- gutta 7/9, 00-067 Warszawa, R-k nr 342-1516-787, for: Mi n . • N . Sz . W . T . , Uniwersytet Lodzki, Komitet Organi zacy J ny V Int. Coll. Gammarus. Registration fee is U.S.A. 35 when sent prior to 31 March 1980 and 40 after that date. _ The tentative program of the conference is following; a/3 days in Burzenin- presenting the papers, b/field excursion Burzenin-Kazimierz- Czqstochowa with sampling e^mphipods and groundwater fauna/2 days/ , c/ field excursion Czystochowa- Ojcow National Park- Czestochowa/ 1 day/. Informal discussion sessions, depending on the proposals and on the number of papers presented, will be held at the evenings in Burzenin or in Czestochowa. This circular letter is being sent to over 330 of our colleagues according to the list obtained by the courtesy of the Blacksburg meeting organizers and supp 1 ement«r(J wi th some new addresses. Please ask persons that would be interested in receiving circular letters to contact one of us. If you are interested in receiving further circular letters please fill out and return a preliminary application 5 form until the end of October 1979. The deadline for receipt of the abstracts will be April 30, 1980. Next ci’rcular letter will be sent in November 1979. With best regards Dr. Andrzej W. Skalski Director of the Museum Museum Okrc^gowe Ratusz B 42-200 Cz(-stochowa, POLAND Dr. Krzysztof Jazdzewski Assoc. Professor of Zoology Zakiad Zoologii Ogolnej U.L. ul. S. Banacha 12/16 90-237 Lodz, POLAND (The preliminary applicabion form asks for name, address, whether you wish to attend, whether you wish to present a paper (and if yes, its title), and if you have any suggestions for topics for "informal discussion sessions". W.V.) REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION Leucothoe inside bivalve molluscs Dr. Brian S. Morton (Hong Kong) has recently found a leucothoid amphipod in the mantle cavity of the extremely rare (and now probably extinct) bivalve Pholadomya Candida . The specimen was collected nearly 150 years ago in the Danish West Indies, and belongs to the Univ. of Copenhagen. The amphipod has been sent to me. It is sur- prisingly viell conserved and is a representative of the genus Leucothoe , one of those species with rectangular posterior ' border of ep . 3 and a very short dactyl on go. 1. I know of only a single previous record of Leuco bhoe species in bivalve molluscs, viz. that of Ortiz ( 1975. Invest, mar. cienc, 8 (16), 1-12), who found L. spinicarpa in Lima scabra and Atrina rigida . On the other hand, available records seem to show a low host-specifi- city for many Leucothoe species, and L. spinicarpa has been found in a variety of hosts: tunicates, sponges', brachiopods, sea-anemones, echinoderms and molluscs (cf. Vader 1979, Astarte 11, 123-136). Also, the taxonomy of Leucothoe is in a state of flux, and many undescribed' species occur, also in the Caribbean (J. Thomas, un- published). I am therefore very hesi tant to erect a new species on 6 the basis of a single specimen, and should like to come in contact wi ch colleagues, v/ho are working on Leuco thoe taxonomy and biology, especially in the tropical and subtropical Atlantic. 1 shall also be very grateful for published or unpul^lished records of the occurrencf of leuco Lhoids in molluscs, brachiopods and sea anemones. If some of you are describing nevy species in the group to which the present specimens belongs, the Copenhagen Museum wi.ll no doubt be interested in having the present specimen included in such a study. Amphipods and Sea Anemones During my sabbatical year in CaiifornLa I steal 1 mainly work on amphipod- sea anemone associations, and one of my aiiiis is to v/ri te an extensive review of the occLirrence and biology of such associations throughC)Ut the world, based on the literature' and my own studies in Norway and California, In this connection I should greatly appre- ciate receiving publistied and especially unpublished data and observations on the occurrence of suen associations. Wirri Vader c/o Bodega Mar. Lab. Bodega Bay CA 94923, USA We would like to request that anyone who has made collections of amphipods from any type of seagrass habitat anywhere in the world send us a list of the species collected. Roger Ziuunerman and I are interested in comparing the major genera of amphipods found in seagrass habitats worldwide. We have reasonable information for the U.S. east coast and the Carribean but would be grateful for additional information from these areas as well as others. Species lists may be sent to either: Dr. Roger Zimmerman Dr. Walter Nelson Center for Energy & Enviromiiental Research Harbor branch Institution University of Puerto Rico RR-1, box 196-A College Station Ft. Pierce, FL 33450 Mayaguez, P.R. 00708 I am currently doing a series of SEM studies on species of Gammarus. If anyone is currently doing any rearing or in-lab experiments with G. zaddachi , pel^^ > locus ta or salinus and could spare a few recently-molted individuals, I would appreciate having them ("recently" means within a day or so, to insure a reasonably clean cuticle). Ideally, I would prefer mature and^? , formalin fixed for at least 24 hrs., rinsed several times with distilled H^O and them transferred to 50% ethanol. Heather Holman Ira C. Darling Center University of Maine at Orono Walpole, Maine 04573 USA ; 1 ’ ! [ ■ 7 Mews from Colleagues Stephen Petrich: My work with amphipods over the last 3 years has centered on their occurrence and importance in marine fouling communities with emphasis on the systematics of the local fauna. Presently, I am working on biofouling problems under a contract with the Southern California Edison Company. Kelly Duncan: On terrestrial amphipods - a disease (-caused by the bacterium Bacillus sub tills ) is sweeping through one population decimating it as it goes. Makes a nice study of a naturally occurring pandemic. I have also discovered that I can keep terrestrial amphipods alive on raothing but filter paper. Fun for me, but not, I guess for them. They lose body pigmentation except for the blue liaemocyanin tint. But the proteins that normally carry the carotenoid pigments are still present in the haemolymph at normal concentrations. Ms. Leslie J. Snider: I am a graduate student at Scripps Inst. Oceanography... am working on the dispersal of amphipods from kelp holdfasts ( Macrocys tis pyrlf era ) . Helmut Koch: I am currently investigating some of the amphipod fauna of the shallow nearshore waters of the western Beaufort Sea in Alaska, in conjunction with the Outer Continental Shelf Environmental Assessment Program. Kris Thoerake: I am now a post-doc with Dr, David C. Wliite at Florida State University. Dr. White, his graduate students and technicians and I are looking at the effects of offshore oil drilling platform discharge on the microbial community and how this effects the behavior and physiology of amphipods. Mike Dadswell: Currently analysing the amphipod communities of Northumberland Strait, Gulf of St, Lav/rence. Laura Richards: Foraging behaviour of Qrchestoidea californiana and its beetle predators. Noel Hynes: Spent six months collecting stoneflies and, incidentally, amphipods in Tasmania, where lie was much impressed with the variety of freshwater species. Eric Mills: Currently diverted from amphipods to ecosystem research. David J. Wildish: I have just returned frm an interesting year in Aberdeen spent working in the Microbiology Department, University of Aberdeen. At St. Andrews two projects are underway: forest pesticide side- effects on freshwater microbiology and assessment of biological effects of a proposed Bay of Fundy tidal power project. The latter is « multidisciplinary involving many individuals from local University and government labs. My particular niche in this program, with collaborators Mike Dadswell of the St. Andrews Lab, and Don Peer of the Marine Ecology Lab, Halifax, is to produce a sublittoral benthic production map of the whole of the Bay. We have already mapped the summer biomass of the Bay and are now attempting to sample some stations monthly to determine production of individual dominant species sucli as Haploops sp . , Casco bigelowij Photis re'Lnhard'i and iku^pinia propinqua. I v^^ould welcome information from anyone working on, or sampling, these species, Pierre Brunei: Since May 1978, I have r.wo new graduate students working toward their M.Sc. on amphipods: Bernard Saiiite-Marie and Gabriel Laraarche. They have been sampling an amphipod community at a monitoring station (Lower St. Lawrence (Estuary)) wlrich liad been studied from May to October 1970 and 1971 by Michel Besner, and Stuupled further in the same way in 1972 and 1973, using our improved Macer-GIROQ sui)rabenthic two-level sled (description in pres.s in the Internationale Revue der gesamten Hydrobiologie) . Sampling has been done this time mainly for life-cycle and breeding season studies on the dojninant species, from June to November 1978, and we liave added samplings with liessler-Sanders ’ epibenthic sled. Each student is starting with a species well represented both in the Lower St. Lawrence and in the Baie des Chaleurs ecosystem, which differ in primary production regimes, but the bottom coiJUQunities being studied are very similar, over mud in the cold-layer at a depth of 120 metres. The first two species selected are Arrhis p hyllony x (Oedicero tidae) and An onyx pacJli cus, and the extensive time-series samples of four years in eacli ecosystem wliicli we had collected in 1968- 73 will be used in addition to the 1978 material. Max Dunbar: My own amphipod activities are limited to amphipods of the Gulf of St. Lawrence water and Labrador current v\?ater in the Northeastern Gulf, and to an essentially bibliographic study of the fauna associated with diatoms in sea ice in Arctic and Antarctic regions where the same herbivore niches have been filled by different groups of crustacean, including amphipods. Ed Bousfield: Gurrent activities relating to amphipod research include: 1. Continued preparation of an illustrated guide to aiuphipods of the Pacific coast of Canada and contiguous regions. About 400 species will be fully treated (whole-mount line illustrations, colour photographs and keys) of which more than 100 have been completed to date. New taxa are being prepublished on a superfamily basis. 2. Refinement of concepts and in ter-re].ationships . Recent field work in New Zealand and southeastern Australia yielded valuable specimens of terrestrial, freshwater, estuarine and intertidal sand-burrowing groups from which important features of sexual dimorphism, gills and brood-plates and antennal calceoli can be detej'inined aiul superfamily placement more reliably made. Especially encouraging is the energy and enthusiasm of regional amphipod taxonomists in tackling this large fauna, much of it still unworked, on a sys tematics-ecology basis. For these ongoing studies on phylogeny, the writer would welcome the deposition of worldwide, genericaily representative, material in the Canadian National Collection that now numbers approximately 75,000 lots. 9 Wolgang Zeidler: I am currenLly working on Lhe amphipod fauna of Southern Australia. For the past two years I have been trying to obtain a copy of J.L. Barnard, 1969; "The families and genera of marine gammaridean amphipod." (U.S. Nat, Mus, Bull, 271:1-535) but without success. Our library does not have a copy and the only copy available to me is in the University library and I can only borrow that one week at a time - not very satisfactory. I am now getting desperate and wonder if I could send out a cry for help via tlie next newsletter, I am prepared to buy anyone’s second copy if they have one or perhaps someone knows of a copy that is not likely to be used that X may be able to purchase. Alternatively I offer for exchange, duplicates of papers from our museum library. Some of the longer works of wliich I have good duplicates are listed separately below: [Barnard, J.L. (obtained from K. Sheard bequest). 1952, Some amphipoda from central California. Wasmann J. Biol., 10(1): 9-36, 9 pis, 1954. Marine amphipoda of Oregon. Oregon State Monog. Zoo!., 8:1-103, pis. 1-33. 1955. Gammaridean amphipoda (Crustacea) in the collections of Bishop Museum. Bishop Mus., Bull. 215:1-46, figs. 1-20, 1958. Index to the families, genera, and species of the gaimnaridean Amphipoda. Hancock Found., Occ. Pap. No. 19: 1-148. and Reish. 1959. Ecology of Miphipoda and Polychaeta of Newport Bay, California. Hancock Found., Occ. Pap. No. 21:1-106. 1964, Deep-sea Amphipoda (Crustacea) collected by the R/V "Vepna" in tlie eastern Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean and Mediterranean seas. Bull. Amer, Mus. Nat. Hist. 127(1) :l-46. Chilton, C. 1912. The Amphipoda of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Trans. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 48 (2) ; 454-520, 2 plates. 1921. Fauna of the Chilka Lake - Amphipoda. Mem. Ind. Mus. 5:521-558. Hale, H.M. Many of Hales's papers, particularly those on cumaceans are still available . Haswell, W.A. 1882. Catalogue of the Australian stalk - and sessile-eyed Crustacea. Aust. Mus. (Syd.) Publ. 1-326 pp., 4 plates. Stebbing, T.R.R. 1899. Amphipoda from the Copenhagen Museum and other sources Part II, Trans. Linn. Soc. Loud. 7 (8) : 395-432, 6 plates. 1910. Scientific results of the trawling expedition of H.M.C.S. "Thetis". Crustacea V - Amphipoda. Aust. Mus. Mem. 4 (2) : 567-658, 14 plates. Stephensen, K. 1929. Zoology of the Faroes - Marine Crustacea, Amphipoda, 1-40.] t [ I I t 10 New Subscribers Ms. Laura Richards Institute of Animal Resource Ecology University of British Columbia 2075 Westbrook Mall Vancouver, B.C. V6T IWS Mr. Stephen M. Petrich 1837 Britton Drive Long Beach, CA 90815 The Library Kristineberg Zoologiska Station S-45034 Fiskebackskil Sverige Ms, Leslie J. Snider A-008 Scripps Institution of Oceanography La Jolla, CA 92093 Mr. Denis Thomson L.G.L. Ltd. Suite 414, 44 Eglinton Ave. W. Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4R lAl Change of Address George S . Lewbel Biology Dept. Bates College Lewiston, Maine 04240 USA Mr. P. Lambert Aquatic Zoology Dividion British Columbia Provincial Museum Victoria, B.C. V8V 1X4 Dr, Walter Nelson Harbor Branch Institution RR 1, Box 19 6- A Ft. Pierce, FL 33450 Kris W. Thoerake Dept. Biological Science Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306 11 Walter Nelson: Abstract of Dissertation The community ecology of seagrass amphipods: predation and community structure, life histories, and biogeography. Amphipod crustaceans constitute a significant component of seagrass eco- systems. As lower trophic level elements, ecological theory suggests that ■ predation may be relatively more important in regulating amphipod abundances and controlling their interactions than competition. An attempt was made to examine this hypothesis in detaill for the amphipods of eelgrass ( Zostera marina) habitats near Beaufort, N.C., and to compare these results with those found for amphipod communities of other seagrass systems. To evaluate the predation hypothesis, the following program was carri.ed out: l) extensive field sampling was carried out in two eelgrass beds to deter — mine the seasonal and spatial pattern of abundaiice and diversity of amphipod prey and their predators, 2) field predator exclusion and inclusion experiments were performed, and 3) laboratory predation experiments vjere performed to examine the prey preferences of major predators. The importance of competition was examined by l) examining matrices of correlation coefficients of all common species for negative values, 2) examining gut contents of 5 common species for degree of food overlap, and 3) performing laboratory competition experiments with three common amphipod species. Results show little evidence for competition. On the other hand, strong evi- dence for the importance of predation was recorded. Sampling data Indicate that amphipod abundances undergo strong seasonal fluctuations, with the maximum rate of decrease occurring in the spring, the period during which juvenile fish predators are present in maximum abundances in the estuary. Significant decreases in amphipod abundances occurred in a fish inclusion experiment, in- dicating fish are capable of generating the observed decreases in amphipod ; abundances. Amphipod densities decreased in fish exclusion experiments, possibly due to predation by decapod crustaceans which were protected by the cages from their own predators. Extension of sampling to other study sites and seagrass species along a latitudinal range again indicated predation to be a possibly significant factor controlling seagrass amphipod communitites. Results suggest that in seagrass beds at more southerly latitudes where large numbers of predatory fish species are present, there are fewer amphipod species lacking some form of predator avoid- ance mechanism relative to areas of less severe predation. * A comparison of the biology of epifaunal and Infaunal species reveals differences in seasonal patterns of variation in mean population body size and egg size between the tvro groups which indicate that predation may act in a differential manner depending on amptiipod habits. The predation hypothesis, therefore, satisfactorily explains a variety of aspects of amphipod distribution, seasonality, and community composition, as viall as being implicated in several aspects of individuad species biology. BIBLIOGRAPHY 12 As usual I have received invaluable help from Claude De Broyer, Iraida Greze and Jan Stock in the compilation of this bibliography. I am also as always most grateful to those of you who have sent me reprints. As noted in the "editoral" of this newsletter, such assistance will be still niuch more necessary during the coming year, although Les Watling and 1 will do our best to maintain the present standard of only moderate incompleteness. I Seme ; col 1 eagues havejaslced me why the bibliography is always divided in bo 3-A pieces, with consequent loss of clarity. The reason is simply that I want to spread the considerable work involved some- what more evenly over the year. 1 hope that your will bear over with this also in future. Roger Lincoln’s eagerly awaited book on British shallow-water amphipods will appear this summer and will be reviewed in AN 12. I also should much like to have reviews of Greze 's and Tzvetkova's monographs, and herewith challenge our Russian-speaking colleagues to furnish such reviews for AN 12. Also the review of Jensen's book must wait until AN 12. A new type of identification key While .scanning the reference journal Oceanic Abstracts for amphii)od literature, my attention was drawn to an abstr’act of a paper by McKinney, Kalke & Holland in Contr. mar. Sci . ^ on "New species of amphipods from t,he -western Gulf of Mexico". According to this abstract "Keys to the unknown species of Parametopel la , Ne tamel i ta , and marine Er j opi sa are provided". This is indeed a most promising development. One may hope that the authors will be enabled to proceed along these lines, finishing up with a comprehensive key to all unknown marine amphipods. (V/.V.) 13 BIBLIOGRAPHY I ARIMOTO, A & T. KIKUCHI, 1977, Canrellicis obtainr'd in the vicinity of Amakusa Islands, West Kyushu. PubI . Arnakusa mar. Biol. Lab, Kyushu Univ. 91-98. ^ BARNARD, J.L., 1977. A new species of Synchel id 1 urn (Crustacea, Arnphipoda} from sand beaches in California, Proc . biol. Soc . Wash. 90 , 877-883. ( S . mi crop 1 eon n. sp . This is the species which Enright used in his well-known experiments on tidal rhy thmi c i ty ) . BEKMAN, M. Yu. E.L. AFANASEEVA, 1977. (The distribution and production of Mac robe c topus ) Trudy Limnol . Inst, Sibirs. otdel. Akad . Nauk 3SSR }_9 (39), 76-98. (In Russi an . G i ve s information on bodv lengtli, weight, annual production and P/B- coefficients). BELOGUROV, O.I., V.V. KULIKOV & L.V. RUSSKIKH, 1978. (Two species of commensal nematodes of the genus Gamma rinema (Nematoda Monhy s te ri dai from the littoral zone of the Far East and hypothesis of the stoma and vestibulum origin in the Gammar I nema ) Zool . Zh . 1180- 1149 (In Russian. E.g. Gammar i nema gamma ri from Gafnmarus setosus , the first record of Gammari n€*ma fro:u the Pacific) BLANCHET, M-F., P. PORCHERON & F. DRAY, 1976. Etude des variations du taux des ecdysones au cours du cycle d'intermue chez le male d ' Orches 1 1 a gammare 1 1 a Pallas (Crust ace Amphipode) par dosage rad 1 oimmunol ogi que . C.R. Acad. Sci. Pari.s 2 83 D, 651 -664. X' BULNHEIM, H . -P , , 1978. Variability of the modes of sex de termina tlcn in littoral am phi pods. Pp 529-548 in B. Battaglia & J.A. Beardmore (Eds). Marine organisms. Gcmetics, ecology and evolution. Plenum Press, N.Y & London. BYNUM, K.H., 1978. Reproductive biology ,of Caprc- i 1 a penan 1 i s Leach, 1814 (Arnphipoda; Caprellidae) in North Ca roil na ^ USA . Est. coast, mar. Sci. 7, 473-485, X CAINE, E.A., 1978. Habitat adaptations of North American caprellid Arnphipoda (Crustacea). Biol. Bull. 155 , 288-296. CAMERON, G.N. & T.W. LAPOINT, 1978. Effect of tannins on the decomposition of Chinese tallow leaves by terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates. Oecologia ( Berl . ) 349-366 (i.a. Crangonyx shoemakeri ) . K DICKINSON, J.J., 1978. Faunal composition of the gamrnarid Arnphipoda (Crustacea) in two bathyal basins of the California continental borderland. Mar. Biol. 367-372. DUNHAM, P.J., 1978. Sex pheromones in Crustacea. Biol. Rev. 53 , 555-583. ENRIGHT, J.T., 1978. Migration and homing of marine invertebrates; a potpourri of strategies. Pp 4 40-44 6 in K. Schmidt Koenig & W.T. Keeton (Eds.) Animal migration, navigation and homing. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, N.Ycrk. ^ FISH, J.D. & S. FISH, 1978. Observations on an annual migration of Bathyporeia pelagica ( Amphi poda , Haus tori i dae ) . Crustaceana 215-221, FOSTER-SMITH, R.L., 1978. An analysis of water flow in tube-living animals. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 3_4, 73-9G (i.a. Corophi urn volu tator ) GALKOVSKAYA, G.A, & L.M. SUSHCHENYA, 1978 (The growth of aquatic animals with changing temperatures). "Nauka i Tekhnika", Minsk, 140 pp . (In Russian. A study of the favourable efi'ect of daily and seasonal oscillabions of temperature on the growth of some invertebrates, especially Crustacea: Cladocera, Copepoda and Gamrnarus lacustris ) GAMO, S., 1977. A new gammaridean Amphipoda, Mellta soxstachya sp , nov. from Sagami Bay. Proc. Jap. Soc . syst. Zool. 1_3, 65-71, GUDKOVA, N.S. & E. G. PANFILOVA, 1976 (Change of gill surface with growth in Ron togarnfna rus obesus (G.O.Sars)). Trud. Komplex. Eksped. Saratov, Univers. pa izucheniyu Vo 1 gogradskogo i Saratov- skogo vodokiirani 1 i shch 6 ^ 52-55. (In Russian, not seen). GULLIKSEN, B., 1978. Rocky bottom fauna in a submarine gulley at Loppkalven, Finnmarken, Northern Norway. Est. coast, mar. Sci. 7, 361-372. GURJANOVA, E.F., 1977. (Some new data in taxonomy of family Phoxo- cephalidae sensu latp (Amphipoda, Gammaridae )' Report 1. Zool. Inst. Akad. Nauk SSSR. Explor. Seas USSR ^ (29), 67-87. - (In Russian . Outline of a revision of the family. Coxophoxidae n, fam. for Coxophoxus .Phoxocephalldae s.s. divided into Harpi- niinae, Palabri a phoxi nae and Phoxocephal Inae . New taxa; Harpind a feren tari a n . sp Pal abri aphoxus n.gen. (type Harpinia palabria ), Paramesophoxus n.gen. (type P . rakumae n . sp . )^ Mesophoxus n.gen. (type M. laperusi n . sp . )^ Eusyrophoxus n.gen. (type Phoxocephal us tenu i pes ) , Cephal ophoxus n.gen. (type Phoxocephalus regium ), Parame tap'hoxus n. gen. (type Phoxocephalus fultoni )^ Cephalo- phoxol de s n. gen. (type Phoxocephalus bassi ) , Para joubine 1 la n.gen. (type Phoxocephalus concinna ) . Type species of Urophoxus is Urotho(3 pinguis .of Pontharpi ni a P. pinguis s. Stebbit^ig (= P . s t e b b i n g i ) ) 15 HARBISON, G.R., L.P. MADIN &- N.R. 3WANBERG , 1978. On the natural '<' history and distribution of oceanic ctenophores. Deep- Sea Res. 233-256, (Data on arnphipod symbionts on pp 239, 240 and 251 ) . HARTNOLL , R . G . & S.M. SMITH, 1978. Pair formation and the reproductive cycle in Gamrnarus duebeni . J. nat. Hisl. 12, 501-511. V HEARD, R.W. & D.G. PERLMUTTER , 1977. Description of Colomastix .janiceae n . sp . , a commensal arnphipod (Gammaridea: Colomasti- gidae) from the Florida Keys, USA. Proc . biol . Soc . Wash. 90, 30-42. HESTHAGEN, I. & B. GJEHMUNDSEN, 1978. The replicability of sampling the hyperbenthic region by means of Beyer's 50 cm epibenthic closing net. Meeresforsch. 26, 1-10. iiOLTHUIS, L.B., 1977. The data of publication of C. Spence Bate and J.O. Westwood's "A history of Britisli Sessile-eyed Crustacea." Crustaceana 33, 313-316. HUGHES, R.G., 1978. Life-histories and abundance of epizoites of the hydroid Nemertesia antennina (L.). J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 58 , 313-322. (i.a. Corophium sex ton :i , Ericthonius br^asi 1 i ensi s and Pseudop rote 1 1 a phasma ) IVLEVA, I.V., 1977. (Metabolism levels in crustaceans living at low temperatures). Trudy Vses. Gidrobiol. ob-va 2A_, 197-230 * (In Russian. The rate of metabolism was studied in Crustacea, especially ' ' G amni a r u s o c e a n i c u s L," and Gammarellus cari natus from reservoirs with different conditions of wa ter- Lcrnpe nature . The characteristics of curves of metabolic rate as a function of temperature are escablistied for different cold-water organisms) JONES, D.A., A.R.G. PRICE R.N. HUGHS, 1978. Ecology of the high saline lagoons Dowhat as Sayh, Arabian Gulf, Saudi Arabia. Est. coast, mar. Sci. 253-262 (i.a. Urotlioe grlmaldii ) JUST, J., 1978. Taxonomy, biology and evolution of the c i rcurnarc ti c genus Acan thonotozorna (Ampliipoda) v^i tl’i notes on Panoploeopsis , Acta arctica 1-140 (An important monograph, the autl)or's V D. Sc. thesis for Copenhagen University. A, sinuaturn , A. gurjanovae A . magnum and A dunbari are described as new species, bringing the total number to 9. The author has studied fecampiid and chonios torna tid parasites of A c a n t h o n o t o z o rn a spp., and gives an extensive and most valuable discussion of the evolutionary liistory and distribution of the genus as well as data on breeding strategy). _ 16 KAMEiNCKAYA , O.E., 1977. ( y\rnphi pod s in tlio fouling of hyd no techni cal constructions in the Sea of Japan) Biol. Morya (Vladi- vostok). ^ ^ (In Russian, not seen. Twenty spp . recorded) KARAMAN, G.S., 1977. Contributions to the knowledge of the Arr.phipoda 81. Revision of the genus Carinurus Sov. 1915 from Baikal Lake (fam. Gamma ri dae ) . Pol joprivreda i Surnarstvo _1_3, 33-52 ( Bazi kalova ' s forms A-C of C. relssnerii are given specific rank and decribed as C. amentatus, C . bi f rons ~ and C. hazikalovae n. spp. A key to the 11 recognized species is provided) KORYAKOV, E.A., 1977. (Night concentrations of makroplank ton in epilim- nion). Trudy limnol. Inst. Sibirs. otdel . Akad . Nauk SSSR 1 9 (39), 98-105 (In Russian. Data on night concentrations, bio- mass and stock of the pelagic amphipod Mac rohec topus branickli i n Lake Baikal ) . KOGMJIAN, L. & I. VALIELA, 1978. The effect of secondary p 1 an t substance.^ on grazing of some salt marsh herbivores. Bit»i. Bull. 155 , AA9 (i.a. Orchestia grill us . Abstract only) KDDRJA3H0VV- V.A. & A . Yu . ZVJAGINTSEV, 1978. (Amphipod Crustaceans: composition and distribution in the fouling of natural substrates in the tidal zone of the Tauysk Gulf, the Okhotsk Sea) Trans. Inst. mar. Biol., Vladivostok ^ 137-lG6.(ln Russian . Deals wi Ui 32 intertidal amphipod spp., their ecological distribution and their zoogeographi ca 1 position) LAUTENSCHLAGER, K.P. & N.K. KAUSHIK, 1977. Consumption of leaf micro- flora by Gamma rus . S . I . L. 20 Congr., Copenhagen, (Not seen) LAUTEMSCHLAGER, K.P., N.K. KAUSHIK & J.B. ROBINSON , 1978. The peri- trophic membrane and faecal pellets of Ganifriarus 1 a c; u s t r i s 1 i m f i a e u s Smith. Freshw. Biol. 8, 207-211. LAVAL., Ph . , 1 978. The barrel of Che pelagic amphipo.d Phronima sedencaria ( Porsk . ) ( C rus tacea ; Hyperiidae). J. Exp. mar. Biol. Ecol , 33 , 187-211. (The barrels come from salps and pyrosomes). LEE, W.Y., 1977. Some Laboratory cultured crustaceans for marine pollu- tion studies. Mar. F*oll. Bull. 8, 258-259 (i.a. Amphi thoe V a 1 j d a ) LEE, W.Y. & J.A.C. NICOL, 1978. The effect of naphthalene on survival and activity of the amphipod Parhyal e . Bull, environm. Con tarn.- Toxicol, 233-2d0. LEWIS, M.H., 1976. Amphipoda. Pp . 167-182 in A. Chapman & M, Lewis. An introduction to the freshwater Crustacea of Nev/ Zealand. Collins, Auckland & London, 261 pp (13 spp are dealt with). 17 MAGNIEZ, G., 1978. Precopulation et vie souterraine chez quelques PeVacarides (Crustacea, Malacostraca ) . Arch. Zool . exp. gd'n. 119, 471-478 (In anoph thalmous hypogean peracarids, the precopulatory nuptial rides have either become much longer than normal, or have completely disappeared). V' MEYERING, M. & W. TEICHMANN, 1978. Zeitplane limnischer Gammariden unter naturnahen Bedingungen. Verb. Ges, Okol . (Kiel 1977), 191-199 ( Gammarus fossarum in cages in. small rivers moult more frequently than those kept under constant condi tions., in the lab; moulting frequency is influenced by varying temperature). MOORE, J.W. & I. A. MOORE, 1976. The basis of food selection in flounder:: Platichthys flesu s (L.) in tlie Severn estuary. J. Fish Biol. 9, 139- 156 (Feeds on Gammarus salinus in Febr. -April) NEALE, J.W., 1978. A re-investigation of Scott's Pon tocypri s ? hyperborea (Ostracoda) from Franz Joseph land. Crustaceana 34, 69-75 (a senior synonym of Ace tabu las torna l.i t to rale 1 i t torale Schornikow, an obligate associate of gammarids.) NELSON,W.G., 1978. An occurrence of Heterophlias seclusus Shoemaker, 1933 (Amphlpoda, Phliantidae) at Beaufort, North Carolina, USA. Crustaceana _35, 103. ^ OPALINSKI, K.W. & K. JAZDZEWSKI, 1978. Respiration of some antarctic amphipods. Pol. Arch. Hydrobiol. 643-655 (Data on Para them! s to gaudi chaudi i , Parandania boecki , Byblis securiger, Eusirus perdentatus , Cyphocaris richardi and Eurythenes gryllus ) V ORTIZ, M., 1976, (A new amphipod from Cuban waters (Arnphipoda, Gamrnaridea, Phliantidae). Cienc. Ser. 8, Invest, mar. (Havana) 25 , 21-36 (In Spanish. Heterophllas seticoxa n . sp . ) * ORTIZ, M., 1976, (Some characteristics of the Cuban benthos). Ciene. Ser. 8, Invest, mar. (Havana) _2^, 1-32 (In Spanish), PERCY, J.A. & J.A. WALBRIDGE, 1978. Seasonal changes in organic composition and caloric value of an arctic marine amphipod, Qni si mus (= Boeckosimus ) af f i ni s . Data Rep. Fish. mar. Serv. £6, 32 pp. ( ? 0701-7634). (Not seen) PIEARCE , T.G, & M. COX, 1977. The distribution of unpigrnented and pigmented Gammarus pul ex in two streams in northern England. Naturalist, Hull 102 , 21-23 (Not seen). PONOMAREVA, Z.A., 1978. (Heat resistance of some amphipods in the Caspian complex of Dniepr and Kaunas water p^gei^voir) - Zool. Zh. 5^,610-613 (In Russian. No physiological changes in heat resistance were registered as a results of acclimatization in Pon togamrnarus robustoi des and P. crassus ) j IB RACHOR, E. & S.A. GERLACH, 1978, Changes of macrobenthos in a sublittoral sand area of the German Bight, 1967 to 1975. Rapp. P.-V. Reun. Cons, int. Explor. Mer 172 , 418-431. RUBER, E. & R. KOCOR, 1976, The measurement of upstream migration in a laboratory stream as an index of potential side-effects of temephos and chlorpyrifos on Gammarus fasciatus (Arnph. Crust.) Mosquito News 424-429. SEMENCHENKO, V.P. & V .S-.SARVIRO , 1977. (The effectiveness of food utilization on the growth of Gammarus lacustris Bars) Dokl . Akad . Nauk, BSSR , Minsk 21, 376-377 (In Russian, not seen) SHILLAKER, R.O. & P.G. MOORE, 1978. Tube building by the amphipods ‘ Lembos websteri Bate and Corophium bonnellii Milne Edwards. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol . 3^, 169-185. oHULENBERGER , E,, 1977. Hyperiid amphipods from the zooplankton community of the North Pacific central gyre. Mar. Biol, 4 2 , 375-385 (83 species, none endemic for the gyre) SPEHAR, R.L., R.L. ANDERSON & J. T. FIANDT, 1978. Toxicity and bio- accumulation of cadmium and lead in aquatic invertebrates. Environm. Poll. 195-208 (i.a. Gammarus pseudol imnaeus ) STALMAKOVA, G.A., 1977 (On bi oecological characteristics of some benthic species of crustaceans of Lake Ladoga). Izv. Nii ozern. i. rechnogo rybkhoz. 111^ 103-113. (In Russian. The reproduction of Asellus aquaticus , Gammarus lacustris and Pontoporeia affinis was studied and their potential production calculated . ) SUTCLIFFE, D.W., 1978. Water chemistry and osmoregulation in some arthropods, especially Malacostraca . Ann. Rev. Freshw. biol. Ass. 57-69 (Not seen) TASHIRO, J.E., 1978. Comparisonr, of Eupronoe armata Claus, 1879, and Eupronoe intermedia Stebbing, 1888 (Amphipoda, Hyperiidea) . Crustaceana 76-82 (Both are valid species). THAYER, A. & E. RUBER, 1 97 6 . Pf evl buss feeding history as a factor in the effects of temephos and chlorpyrifos on migration of Gammaru s fasciatus . Mosquito News 429-432, TZVETKOVA, N.L., 1977. (New genus and new species of amphipods (Amphipoda: Gorophioidea ) from the Japan Sea. Akad. Nauk. SSSR^ Zool . Inst. Leningi'ad, Explor. Sea USSR ^ (29)^88-101. (In Russian. Pareury s theus n.gen. (Isaeidae), type Eurys theus a namae . Further species: P. gurjanovaej ? I i f I I : n . sp . ( = den ta 1 us s. Gurj. 1951), P. latipus n . sp . , Purystheus se xderi tatus and E . gurvi tzi . ) VASSILENKO, S.V., 1977. (A new species of amphipod Cap rm-^^^arnmarus ml cropl eopodi u; (Amphlpoda, Caprogamrnaridae ) inhabited on the shore of the Kuril Islands) Akad . Nauk SSSR, Zool . Inst. Lenningrad, Explor. Seas USSR 2J_(29), 60-66 (In Russian). VERHEYEN, F.J., 1978. Orientation based on directivity, a directional parameter of the animal's radiant environment. Pp 447-458 in K. Schmidt Koenig W.T. Keeton (Eds.) Animal, migration, navi- gation, and homing. Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, N.York. VEROLLET, G. & H. TACHET, 1978. Un echantilleur a succion pour le prelevement du zoobenthos fluvial. Arch. Hydrobiol. 84 , 55-64 . WOLFF, T., 1977. Diversity and faunal composition of the deep-sea benthos. Nature, Lndh 267 , 780-785, ZAKUTSKII , V . P . & F.A. OLEINIKOVA, 1977. ( Pon to gamma rus of the Sea of Azov.). Rybnac Khozyaistvo 1_^, 27-28 (In Russian .Abundance (25-170.000 p.m^) and biomass (140-1000 g/m^) of Pon togammaru s maeo 1 i cus were de te rmined . Annual production in the Azov Sea in wet weight is c. 1000 tons. ZERBIB, C. 1976. Nature chimique des enclaves vitellines de 1 'ovocyte du Crustace Amphipode Orchestia gamma re 11 us (Pallas). Ann. Histochim. 27 9-295. ZERBIB, C., 1977. Endocytose ovocytaire chez le Crustace Amphipode Orchestia gammarellus ( Pal las )> Demons trati on par le peroxydase. C.R. Acad. Sc. Paris 284 D, 757-760. ^ ZIEGELMEYER, E., 1978, Macrobenthos investigations in the eastern part of the German Bight from 1950 to 1974. Rapp. P.V. Reun. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 172 , 432-444 . 20 >C ANDRES, H.G., 1978, L 1 d y o c e r a d cj c u s a c u t: u s sp.n., ein Gamma ride aus der Jameos del Agua auf Lanzarote (Amphipoda, Crustacea). Mitt. hamb. zool. Mus. Inst. 7_5, 249-253. ANGER, K., 1977. Benthic in ve rt ebrates as indicators of organic pollution in the western Baltic Sea, Int. Rev. ges. Hydro- biol. 245-254. ^BARNARD, J.L., 1978. Redescription of Plioplateia K.H. Barnard, a genus of amphipod (Crustacea) from Sou.th Africa. Ann, S. Afr. Mus. 77, 47-55. (The new family PI ioplateidae (recte : Plioplateiidae) is erected for the monotypic Plioplateia triquetra ,, BARNARD, J.L. & M.M. DRUMMOND, 1978. Gamma r id ean Amphipoda of Australia, part III. The Phoxocephal idae . Smithson. Contr. Zool. 2 A 5 , 1-551. (A monumental monograph. It is most unfortunate that it is a few m o n t s f!) r e d a t e d by G u r j a n o v a ' s first paper' in her pro- posed series on the same family (see p. |4- ), because of the nomenclatorial uncertainty this has created. Barnard and Drummond have divided the family in 9 subfamilies; PONTHARPINI INAE (wit[*\ as only genus and species Pontharpinia pinguis) ; TIPIMEGINAE (type genus Tip imegu s n . g e n . ) with Tipimegus thaler us n . s p . ( type) , T . d i n j e r r u s n . s p . , T . kangu lun n . s p . , T . ka I k ro n . s p . and T . s t e I) l3 i n g i (was Paraph ox us ) , ti o o r a n u s n . g e n . , B . w e e m u s n . s p (type), D . t i k e r i n . sp B . wangoorus n.sp., Trichophoxus (only species T. capillatus ) and Wa i t ang i (only species W , r a k i u r a ) ; BROLGINAE (type genus D r o 1 g u s n.gen.), with Mandibulophoxus, Cu nmu r ra n . g e n . ^ C . i t i c e r u s n.sp. (type), B r o 1 g u s n . gen. (type Paraphoxus tattersalli ) , B . in i 1 1 i n u s n.sp. , B. mahmak n . s p . ^ B. tavelus n , s p . ^ B . k o o n g a r' r u s n.sp. , E 1 p e d d o n.gen. (only species E . K a i t< a i n.sp. ) . G a n b a n.gen. (only species G. pellati n.sp. ) , K u r i t u s n.gen. (only species K, nacoomus n.sp. )j W i 1 d u s n.gen. , W. tharnbaroo n.sp. (type), W . rn u 1 1 o k u s n.sp., fuegiensis (Schell enberg) , Wi ldus?waipiro (J.L. Barnard), Paraphoxus (with P . o c u 1 a t u s and possibly P . simplex the only species left here); LEONGATH I INAE , with Leongathus nootoo n.gen. n.sp. as only represen tat i ve ; JOUB INE L L INAE (type genus Joubinella ) , Mat on g n.gen. (only species M. matong n.sp. ) , Kot la n.gen. (only species K . batter! n.sp .)^ Yammacoona n. gen. (only species Y. kunarella n . sp . )j PARHARPINI INAE (type genus Pa r ha r p i n ia ) , V i 1 I o sa , P _. wa iM; je n.sp,, P P P ULiLbll 1 B I R U B 1 1 N A E (type genus B i u b i u s ) , Birublus ( ty|je B. pananiunus), B. lorus n.sp B. namm ul dus n . sp B . my a 1 1 u s n.sp., N . apart n.sp., B . c a. r t o o 3 r I 21 BARTON , BELLAN- n . s p . , B . t ha Imu s n . s p . , B. muldarpus n . s p . , B, gallangus n . s p . B. mayamayi n . s p . ^ B. w Irak us n . s p . ^ B. ch in too n . s p . ^ B, karobrani n.sp., B . boo 1 eus n.sp., B, babanukuB n.sp.,- B, gel anus n . sp , , B . quearus n.sp.^ B. narus n.sp., B . gambod en i n . sp B . maamus n . sp B . lowannu s n.sp.^ B. I TARARAM, A.S., Y. WAKABAHA & F.P.P. LEITE, 1978. Notes on Parhyale hayyaiensi s (Dana). Crustacea - Arnphipoda. Bull. mar. Sci. 28, 782-786. K THURSTON, M.H., 1979. Scavenging abyssal ampliipods from the North-East Atlantic Ocean. Mar, Biol. 55-68 (Seven lysianassids from 4855 m, in baited traps, with Paralicella cap ere sc a most common. Many biological data). 33 VADER, W., 1978. Alloj?,ausia recondita Stasek (Amphipoda, Lysi anassi dae ) , an associate of Lhe aggregating sea anemone, An Lhopleura e 1 egan ti ssinia (Firandt) in Cali f ornia ^Preliminary report). Trornso, off-set, 0 pp . VADER, W., 1979. Associations between amphipods and echinoderms. Astarte (1978), 123-135 ( 28 amphipod species in 15 families have been found on or in echinoderms. All cchinoderrn classes are involved). V^ERHOEVEN, J.T.A., 1978. Natural regulation of plant biomass in a Rupp i a - dominated system. Proc . EWRS Syrfip . on aquatic Weeds 5, 53-61 ( G arnm a r u s z a d d a c h i feeds on Rufjpia, consuming c 0.4 mg /mg animal /day. WESTERNIIAGEN, H. von, H. ROSENTHAL, S. KERR & G. FUERSTENDERG , 1979. Factors influencing predation of Hyperoche medusarum (Hypc'riida Amphipoda) on larvae of the Pacific Herring C 1 u p e a h a r e n gu s pallasli . Mar. Biol. 5^, 195-201. WIEI.IAMS, J.A. & E. NAYL.OR, 1978, A procedure for the assessment ol’ significance of rhythmic ity in time-series data. J. Chronobiol. 5, 435-44H (Not seen. Involves Ta 1 i t rus sal ta tor ) . I J4 aBOI.MAIjOVA , G.I., 19V8. ( i^ne rge ti c and plastic nie tabol i sin interrela- tion in Gammarus olivii M.-Edw. at different temperatures.) 2. All-Union Conf. Shelf Biol., Sevastopol _1, 12-13. (In Russian. Rates of respiration at different temperatures: at 5*^C- 0.306, 10*^-0.347, and 20^- 1.245 mm^ O^h ^ ( at a weight of 1 mg). Mean specific growth rate increases from 0.006 at 5*^ to 0.126 at 20*^C . At low temp 77% of energy is used for growth) AMIN, O.M., 1978. On the crustacean hosts of larval acanthocephalan and cestode parasites in southwestern Lake Michigan. J. Parasitol. 042-842 (Data on 3 Acan thocephal a spp from Pontoporeia afflnis ) ANDERSON, J . W . S.L. KIESSER & J.W. BLAYLOCK, 1979. Comparative uptake of naphthalenes from water and oiled sediment by benthic amphipods. Proc. 1979 Oil Spill Conf. L.A., 579-? (Not seen). BARNARD, J.L., 1979. Littoral Gammaridean Ainphipoda from the Gulf of California and the Galapagos Islands. Smithson. Contr. 2ool . 271 ,1-149 (New taxa: Gitanopsis baciroa , Ampithoe guaspare , A. plumulosa tepahue , A. tahue, A. vacoregue , Lembos achlre , L. tehuecos , Posopho ti s n.gen. ( Corophi idea ) with type species P . se r 1 , Varoh j os n.gen. ( Co rophi idea) with type species V. topi anus , Zoedeu top us n. gen. ( Corophi i de a) with type species Z. c:inaIoanus , Po n t o ge n i a gp a t a , A n c h i a 1 e 1 1 a n . gen^ ( Gammari dae ) v/ith type species A. vul cane 11a , Dulzura gal , Elasmopus bampo , E. hawaiensis n. status (was spp of E . ecuadorensi s ) , E . mayo, K. ocoroni , E. serricatus n. status (was ssp of E. rapax) , E . temori , E. tiburoni , E. tubar, E. zoanthide a, Maera reishi , M. chinarra , Allorchestes carinatus n. status (was ssp. of A. malleolu s) , Uyale darv/ini , 11. canal ina , U. yaqui , H. zuaque^, H. guasave , H. californic a n. status (was ssp of H. grand i co rni s ) H. humboldti , Na,)na kitamatl , Parhyale penicillat a n. status (was ssp of P . f asc i ge ra ) > M i c r o j a s s a c h i n i p a and 1 le te rophi i as galapagoanus . A number of other species is discussed and illustrated, especially in the genera Ampi tlioe , Pontogeneia , Elasmopus , Allorchestes , Uyal e and Parhyal e . Most northern-hemisphere species of the P o n t o ge ne i a - g roup are transferred back to Pon togene i a , but P . n a s a and probably lA i nsari^a belong in Tethyge n eig i . A1 1 ore hes te: mal leol u s and v 1 adi n pi r i a re s y 1 1 o ny u t i z e d v; i t ti A. angusLa . T li e Hyale frequens - group and the M. gran d! co r n i s - group are again reviev/ed, many earlier identifications corrected and a number of "formas" elevated to specific rank. keys are provided to the species of Elasmopus and Hyale in the region and to all A1 1 orchestes ) BELLAN-SANTINI, D., G. BELLAN & D.J. REISH, 1979. Moly smologi e marine - variations de 1 ' inf luence d ' al teragenes suivant le cycle d'activite jour/nuit de certains organisrnes marins. _____ C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris D 288 , 139-141. (Not seen, a.o. on Podocerus fnlanus ) BIERNBAUM, C.H., 1979. Influence of sedimentary factors on the distribution of benthic amphipods of Fisliers Island Sound, Connecticut. ___ 4. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol . 201-233 (Not seen). BOYLE, P.J., 1978. Absence of microorganisms in crustacean digestive tracts. Science, N.Y. 200 , 1157-1159. CAINE, E., 1979. Functions of swiniming setae v/ithin caprellid amphipods (Crustacea) Biol. BuJ 1 . 156 , 169-178. CHAMBERS, M.R. & i-i . MILNE, 1979. Seasonal variation in the condition of some intertidal invertebrates of the Ythan estuary, Scotland Est. coasts mar. Sci. 8, 411-419 (a.o. Corophiurn volutato r) CHASSE, C. & D. MORVAN, 1978, Six mois apres la mare"e noire de 1' Amoco Cadi Z/ provisoire de 1' impact biologique. Penn ar Bed 1_1^, 311-33 CZECZNGA, B, & A. SKALSKI, 1978. Carotenoids in Nip hargus casimiriensis Skaiski (Amphipoda) from Artesian wells. Int. J. Speleol. _9, 131-136. DICKSON, G.W., 1977. Variation among populations of the troglobytic ampliipod crustacean Crangonyx antennatu s living in different habitats. 1. Morphology. Int . J .Speleol . 9_j_ 43-50. DICKSON, G.W., 1979. The importance of cave mud sediments in food jirefe rence , growth and mortality of the troglobitic amphipod crustacean Crangotry^x anteiinatus Packard ( Crangonyc t idae ) . Crustaceana _36, 129-140. FERRARESE, U. & B. SAMBUGAR , 1977. (Investigation df the interstitial hyporheal fauna in the Adige River in relation to the degree of pollution). __ Rev. Idrobiol. (1976), 47-128 (In Italian, not seen) . KAISER, E.W., 1978. (Tl^e Malacostraca of the inland waters of Thy ai'id Ves te r-llauherred , Jutland, Denmark ^Zootopograplii cal investi- gations In Thy 14.) Flora Fauna, Aarhus 1_4, 3-28 (In Danish wi til Engl ish suminary ) . EliMELEVA, N.N. N A.P. GuIxUiCA/, 19/8, (Gmierative and exuvial growth rate as a function of weight In Crustaceans). Dokl . Ak . Nauk SSSR ^_0, 1497-1499 (in Russiargnot seen) 36 Kl-IMELEVA, N.N. & Z.A. HUMANUVA, 1976. (Changes in mass and caloric value of some crustaceans during embryogenesis) . Biol. Morya. Kiev 54-60 (In Russi an . Deal s a.o. with Cxamrnarel lus c a r 1 n a t u s , and gives data on the content of water, solids^ mineral fraction, and the caloric value of the eggs at the initial and final stages of embryonic development. In all crustaceans studied (isopods, decapods, amphipods) the water and -ashes contents increase and the dry mass and caloric value decrease in the course of development). KIM, 11.3. & K.S. LEE, 1976. Systematic study of Arnphipoda (Crustacea) in Korea. 3. Four unrecorded caprellids ( Caprel 1 i dae ) from South Korea, Korean J. Zool . 1-8 (Not seen) KREZOSKI, J.R., S.C. MOZLEf & J.A. ROBBINS, 1978. Influence of benthic macroi nver tebrates on mixing of profundal sediments in south- eastern Lake Huron. Limnol . Oceanogr. 2 ^, 1011-1016. (Not seen) LEE, W.Y & J.A.C. NICOL, 1978. Individual and combined toxicity of some petroleum aromatics to the marine arnphipod El asm op us pec ten i crus . Mar. Biol. 4_8, 215-222. MARCH, B.G.E. de , 1978. The effects of constant and vai'iable tempc.'ra- tures on the size, growth, and reproduction of the fresliwater arfiphipod Hyalella aztec a (Saussure). Can. J. Zool. 1801- 1806. MORDVINOVA , T . N . , 1978. (On rnicrophallid metacercaria paz'asitic on the Black Sea crustaceans). Biol. Morya, Kiev 4jS, 34-40 (In Russi an , Frodi 1-174 cysts found in 40% of 2270 Gaifirnarus i n s n s i b 1 1 i s . Seasonal and age aspects of infestation are ■ discussed, and sevei'al ffii c ropl lal 1 ids described). MORDVINOVA , T . N . & A.M. PARUKHIN , 1978. ( Gal vanac an thus problemati cus sp . n.^a new acan thocephalan from the Black Sea G arnrn a r u s o 1 i v i 1 ) Biol. Morya, Kiev 45^, 42-44. (In Russian) / MORINO, li., 1978. Studies on the Tali tridae (Arnphipoda, Crustacea) in Japan. 3. Life lies Lory and breeding activity of Orch esti a p 1 a to 11 si s Kroyer’. Publ. Seto mar. Lab. 245-267. ' NELSON, W.G., 1979. Additions to the arnphipod crustaceans of North Carolina. Estuaries _2, 65. Pf^ATT, T.l’t., 1978. A report of Polynio riJ uts paradoxus ( Acan tl locepliala ) m M ] c rv j t u s penj' i.sy i v .--u;! i cus fr'um Hastings Lake, A L bei' ta( Canada ) . Proc . helrninthol. Soc. Wasn. fl_5, i (The voles probably get ini'erl.ed by eatiiig f. a ( r n 1 1 ci r* u s 1 a c u s t i s during the F-.n r 1 n p i' 1 o od i n p s J j. y t 37 RUBTZOV, I. A. & M. Yu. BEKMAN , 1979. (Merinithids from the garnmarids of the Baikal Lake). Zool, Zh. 751-75d (Russian with English summary. Clammarome rmi s n.gen. with 3 spp (2 new), 1 rorn hos of 4 different genera) . SHIll, C.T. & D.R, LAUBITZ, 1978. Zooplankton distribution in the eastern Beaufort Sea and che Northwest Passage. Astarte 1^1 > 45-54. TIMMS, B.V., 1978, The benthos of seven lakes in Tasmania. Arch. Hydrobiol. £1, 422-444(Not seen. Neoni phargus common) \ WILDISH, D.J. & R.J. LINCOLN, 1979. Occurrence of Orchestia platensls Kroyer, 1845 (Arnphipoda, Talitridae) in Britain. Crustaceana 3G, 199-200. NEW SUBSCRIBERS Dr. Dr. D r . Dr, Dr, The Gerd Bracht, Zoologisches Institut, Abt. Physiologic und Oko logic, Bade ns tr. 9, D- 4400 Munster , BRD R.C. Brusca, Allan Hancock Foundation, Univ. of S. California, ]-.QS Angelc-s , CA 90007, USA W.l'j. Gillies, Connell Metcalf & Eddy, Architecture Engineering Planning, 1320 Sou th Di x ie Hignway , PO Box 341939, Coral Gables Fla. 33134, USA. K.F. Herhaus, Zoologisches Institut, Abt. Physiologic und Gkologir. Badenstr. 9, D- 4 4 00 Mu ns ter , BRD Masanori Hiroki, Dept of Science Education, Kyoto University of Education, Fu j inoifiori , Fushimi -icu , Kyo to , 612 Japan. Library, Kristineberg Zoologiska Station, S- 45034 Fiskebackski 1 , Sverige . Dr. J. Sieg (Tanaidacea Newsletter), Univ. Osnabruck, Abt. Vechta, D 2848 Vech ta (Oldenb.), BRD Dr. J.- Cl. Sorbe, Inst, de Biologic Marine, 2 rue du Professeur Jolyet, F 33120 A rcachon , France Dr'. Denis Thomson, L.G.L. Ltd, Suite 414, 44 Eglinton Avenue West, 'Poron to M 4 R I AI , C anad a . 38 Last minute additions. Change of addres s: Dr. Hiroshi Inoue, Ibaragi Higashi High School, 2524^ Qbata , Ibaragi-cho, 311-31 Japan. New subscribers Dr. Hisashi Miyamoto, Fujishima High School, 2-8-30, Bunkyo , F ukui , 910, Japan. Dr, Yoichi Sasada, Laboratory of Zoology, Tokyo University of Fisheries, Konan, Minato-ku, Tokyo , 108, Japan. Bib 11 Qgraphy < MATEUS, A. & E. de Oliveira MATEUS , 1978. Atnphipoda hypoges de Portugal. Publ^s Inst. Zool . "Dr. Augusto Nobre" 142 , 11-26. (Deals with Hap log 1 ngly- mus bragai , Pseudoniphargus sp , under further study, H adzia tavaresl and Bogidiella helenae ) . OSEID, D.M., 1970. A comparison of the variability of Asel lus c om mun i s (Crustacea: Isopoda) and Gammarus pseudol imnaeus (Crustacea: Amphipoda) and suitability for joint bioassays. Bull environm. Contam, Toxicol. 20 , J61-469 (Not seen). PARSONS, T.R. & C.A. BOWDEN, 1979. A controlled ecosystem for tlie study of the food requirements of amphipod populations. Est, coast, mar. Sci. 547-553 (Most interesting data on continuous cultures of Ani sogammarus pugettensis ) WILLIAMS, R. & D. ROBINS, 1979. Calorific, ash^ carbon and nitrogen content in relation to length and dry weight of Paraihemis to gaudichau,^ commensaux, etc. (Th. Monod et R. Serene, ed.) VI Crustac(^s Amphipodes Gammariens. Bull. Mus_. natn Hist. nat. Paris (^) 137-181 (New taxa: Ampelisca rnonodl , Eriopisella spinosa , Grandide ri el 1 a indentata . Descriptions and figures of Amphi ] oclius neapol i tanus , Cyproidea ornata , Ainphithoe kulafi , / A. ? cavimana , A. ? platycera , Sunamphithoe pelaglca , Colomast i x trunca tipes Ledo^ei' in pi'ess, Aoroides nahili , Grandl deriel la bi spinosa , G . g 1 1 e = i , M i c rop ro topus D i cuspi da t:us , P 1 ~i o t i s longi cauda ta , A t:y 1 u s j ap o n i c u s , Diancollna rnauihina , El aspiopus hooheno , Melita orgasmos , \A. zeylanica , Lysianassa sp . , Leuco tho f urina , Pereionotus tesl.udo s, Rabindranalh ( P. t:estudo s, Ledoyer 1972 was P . a 1 a ru p h 1 i a s ) , Podocerus walkeri , Hyal e d iplodac tyla , Orchesti a sp . , ? Tali trus sp . and Talorches tia ml ndorensi s . A synoptic key to Eriopisella is provided. Most of the amphiptods v;ere collected intertidally in the Moluccas. Leucothoe Purina is noted from inside a Pinna sp.) ^ LEWBEL, G.S., 1978. Sexual dimorphism and intraspecific aggression, and their relationship to sex ratios in Caprella gorgonia / Laubitz & Lewbel (Crustacea: Ampliipoda). Ecol. 33, 133-151. J. exp. mar. Biol,'. McKINNEY, L.D., 1979. Liljeborgiid amphipods from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. Bull, rnar, Sci . 140-154. (New taxa: Liljeborgia bousfieldi , 1, 1 s t r i e 1 1 a q u i n t an a , L. bahia, L . Carina i ■