AMPHIPOD NEWSLETTER 9' October 1977 Again the newsletter is a few months delayed: my excuses are the same as in A.N. 8. 1 hope the quality has not suffered. Jim Lowiy's contribution on the life and works of Charles Chilton will no doubt be a most welcome aid for many of us, and Mike Thurston has written a thoughtful essay on regional amphipod faunas. There is also further news on the forthcoming Gammarus/Niphargus symposium in Virginia, and the promised updated list of subscribers, as well as the usual columns and bibliography. The regional editors have been listed in AN 8, and the system functions very well. I am especially grateful to Les Watling for most effeetive assistance. The deadline for A.N. 10 will be 1 december 1977. Wim Vader Tromso Museum University of Tromso N-9001 Tromso Norway May 1978 Due to problems with Zoo-Tax, Wim Vader was unable to get AN 9 printed, so I am having it printed here at the University of Maine. AN 1 0, and probably future newsletters, will be printed here also. You should continue to send your news, dues, etc. to your regional editor or to Wim directly. Les Watling Department of Oceanography Ira C. Darling Center University of Maine Walpole, Maine 04573 ^ This newsletter was re-typed in 2017 from an old copy of the original newsletter. Sadly, some pages were not of a quality where all letters were visible. When it was impossible to reconstruct what was missing, . . . has been inserted to denote missing letters. Anne Helene S: Tandberg A BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LIST OF THE AMPHIPOD SPECIES DESCRIBED BY CHAREES CHIETON (1860-1929) Jim Eowry, The Australian Museum Charles Chilton was born in Hereford, England, but grew up on a farm in East Eyreton, New Zealand. Probably because he lost a leg at an early stage it was decided that he would not be a farmer like his father. Consequently he attended Canterbui*y College in Christchurch, New Zealand, where he gained a BA in 1 880 and an MA in 1881. fn 1886 he received the first New Zealand BSc from Otago University, Dunedin, and in 1893 the first New Zealand DSc. He later took a medical degree at Edinburgh University. From 1910 to 1928 he was Professor of Biology at Canterbury College, and became Rector of the College m 1921. In 1907 he lead the Canterbuiy Philosophical Society Expedition to the New Zealand Subantarctic Islands and edited the two volume expedition results. A more detailed account of his life can be found in the obituary written by his friend and colleague G.M. Thomson (1930, Trans Proc. N.Z. Inst., 60(4): 587-589). Recently D.E. Huxley (1975, N.Z. Nat. Her., 3(43): hi) has written a biographical sketch of his life. Chilton published about 130 scientific papers during his career. Although this work covered a wide range of Crustacea the majority dealt with amphipods and isopods. He published 71 papers on amphipods of which 24 contain new species descriptions. Nearly half of the 51 new species he described are in the families Gammaridae and Talitridae. More than half of his described species come from the New Zealand ai'ea, but he also worked on marine amphipods from the Antactic, and marine and freshwater species from Australia, India and the Phillipines. Chilton's eaiJy taxonomic work is considered sound, but after his stay in the British Isles his taxonomic philosophy changed dramatically and he became a proponent of wide ranging, variable species. During this time, as Hurley (1975, Ibid.) says, “he searches for reasons to avoid describing species”. However, regardless of this criticism, Chilton's work forms the basis of New Zealand amphipod systematics, a basis superbly developed by D.E. Hurley and J.L. Barnard. Chilton's books and bound reprint collection of over 50 volumes are housed at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. The majority of his amphipod collection is deposited at the Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. Eist of the new general and new species described by Charles Chilton. New genera are listed in upper case. New species Date Present name Acanthonotozomatidae Acanthonotozoma australis 1912 a Bathypanoploea australis Amphilochidae Cyproidia otakensis 1900 a Neocyproidea otakensis Ceinidae Nicea egregia 1883 Ceina egregia Corophiidae Corophiwn ledenfeldi 1884 d Haplocheira ledenfeldi Eury’steus persetosus 1921 c Gammaropsis persetosus Grandidierella gilesi 1921 d PARANAENIA typical 1884 d Gammaropsis typical Podoceropsis insignis 1925 b Dexaminidae SYNDEXAMINE carinata 1914 Eophilantidae BlRCENNAfulvus 1884 d Eusiridae Aty hides calceolate 1912 a Schrader ia gracilis Calliope siibterranea 1882 b Paraleptamphopus subterraneus Eusirus splendidus 1912 a Eusirus perdentatus Haliragoides australis 1912 a Moera incerta 1883 Maera incerta Panoploea tuber culens 1884 d Apherusa translucens Gammaridae Crangonyx compactus 1882 b Paracrangonyx compactus Elasmopus bollonsi 1915 Elasmopus ne gleet i 1915 Gammarus barringtonensis 1916 c Pararnelita barringtonensis Gammarus fragil is 1882 b Phreatogammarus fragilis Moera festiva 1884 a Melita festiva Neoniphargus westralis 1925 c Uroctena westralis Niphargus australensis 1923 c Niphargus chilkensis 1921 d Eriopisa chilkensis Niphargus indicus 1923 a Neoniphargus indicus Niphargus ph i 1 ippe ns is 1920 c Eriopisa philippensis Phreatogammarus halmsii 1918 a Phreatogammarus propinquus 1907 ..oriidae Platyischnopus neozlanicus 1897 Ischyroceridae Podocerus frequens 1883 Ventojassa frequens Podocerus latipes 1884 d Ventojassa frequens Eiljeborgiidae Idunella chilkensis 1921 d Eysianassidae Alicella scotiae 1912 a ENDEVOURA mirabilis 1921 c Glycerina affinis 1884 a Amaryllis macrophthalma Orchomenopsis coatsi 1912 a Pseudorchomene coatsi Sebidae TETRATICUM typicum 1884 d Seba typica Stegocephalidae Cyproidea crassa 1883 Tetradeion crassum Stenothoidae Thaumatelson inermis 1912 a Prothaumatelson nasutum Thaumatelson walkeri 1912 a Anatelson walkeri Talitridae Hyale grenfelli 1916 a Hyale saldanha 1912 a Hyalella mihiwaka 1898 Chiltonia mihiwaka Orchestia bollonsi 1909 a Orchestia rniranda 1916 a Parorchestia improvisa 1909 a Orchestia improvisa Parorchestia insidaris 1909 a Orchestia insidaris Parorchestia maynei 1909 a Orchestia maynei Parorchestia parva 1909 a Orchestia parva Talorchestia sinensis 1925 a CHILTON, C. 1882 a: Addition to the New Zealand Crustacea. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 14: 171-174. 1882 b: On some subterranean Crustacea. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 14: 174-180. 1883: Further additions to our knowledge of the New Zealand Crustacea. Tranactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 15: 69-86. Pis 1-3. 1884 a: Notes on a few Australian Eritophthalmata. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 9: 1035-1044. 1884 b: The distribution of terrestrial Crustacea. New Zealand Journal of Science 2: 154-157. 1884 c: Moera petriei (G.M. Thomson). New Zealand Journal of Science 2: 230-231. 1884 d: Additions to the sessile-eyed Crustacea of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 16: 249-265. 1885 a: On an example of polymorphism in the Amphipoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 5, 16: 368-376, PI 10. 1885 b: Polymorphism among the Amphipoda. New Zealand Journal of Seienee 2: 560-562. 1892 a: Notes on some New Zealand Amphipoda and Isopoda. Transaetions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 24: 258-269. 1892 b: On a tubicolous amphipod from Port Jackson. Records of the Australian Museum 2: 1-7, Pis 1, 2. 1897: A new amphipod from New Zealand (family Pontoporeiidae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 6, 19: 1-6, PI 5. 1898: A new freshwater amphipod from New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 1: 423-426, PI. 18. 1900 a: A New Zealand species of the amphipodan genus Cyproidea. Annals and Magazine of Natural Histoiy, series 7, 5: 241-246, PI. 5. 1900 b: The subterranean Amphipoda of the British Isles. Journal of the Linnean Society - Zoology 28: 140-161. Pis 16-18. 1 906 a: Report of some Crustacea dredged off the coast of Auckland. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 38: 265-268. 1906 b: Tist of Crustacea from the Chatham Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 38: 269-273. 1 906 c: Note on a New Zealand amphipod belonging to the genus Seba. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 17: 569-573. 1906 d: Note on some Crustacea from the freshwater lakes of New Zealand. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1906: 702-205. 1907: A new freshwater gammarid from New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7: 19: 388-390, PI. 11. 1909 a: The Crustacea of the Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand. 601-671 p. In “The Subantarctic Islands of New Zealand” Vol 2. C. Chilton (Ed. ). John McKay, Wellington. 1909 b: The freshwater Amphipoda of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 41: 53-59. 1909 c: Note on amphipodan genera Bircenna, Kuria and Wandelia. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 41: 59-63. 1911 a: Note on the dispersal of marine Crustacea by means of ships. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 43: 131-133. 1911b: The Crustacea of the Kermadec Islands. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 43: 544-573. 1911 c: Scientific results of the New Zealand Government Trawling Expedition, 1907. Crustacea. Records of the Canterbury Museum 1(3): 285-312, PI. 58. 1912 a: The Amphipoda of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 48(2): 455-520. 1912 b: Miscellaneous notes on some New Zealand Crustacea. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 44: 128-135. 1912 c: Note on Orchestia pai^ispinosa M. Weber, a terrestrial amphipod from Java. Notes from the Eeyden Museum 34: 163-168, Pis 6, 7. 1913: Revision of the Amphipoda from South Georgia in the Hamburg Museum. Mitteilungen aus dem Naturhistorischen Museum 30: 53-63. 1914: A new amphipodan genus and species (family Dexaminidae) from New Zealand. Journal of the Linnean Society - Zoology 32: 331-336, Pis 26, 27. 1915: The New Zealand species of the amphipodan genus Elasmopiis. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 47: 320-330. 1916 a: A new species of the amphipodan genus Hyale from New Zealand. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 17: 362-366. 1916 b: Paraperusa crass ipes (Haswell), and amphipod of Autralasian seas. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 18: 199-207, Pis 8.10. 1916 c: A new species of Orchestia. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 48: 354-359. 1916 d: Some Australian and New Zealand Gammaridae. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 48: 359-370. 1916 e: Some Amphipoda and Isopoda from Barrington Tops (4600 ft. alt.) N.S.W. Journal of Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales 1: 82- 98. 1917 a: Notes on the distribution of the amphipods, Elasmopus rapax, A. Costa, and Maera inaequipes (A. Costa). Journal of Zoological Research 2(1): 17- 19. 1917 b: Further notes on the New Zealand amphipod Hyale grenfelli, Chilton. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 8, 19: 273-276. 1917 c: The identity of the two amphipods, Ampelisca eschrichtii, Kroyer, and .4. macrocephala, Liljeborg, considered from an Antaretie point of view. Journal of Zoological Research 2(2): 75-93. 1917 d: The New Zealand sand-hoppers belonging to the genus Talorchestia. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 49: 292-303. 1918 a: Some New Zealand Amphipoda belonging to the genus Phreatogammarus. Journal of Zoological Research 3(2,3): 81-86. 1918 b: Note on an abnormal appendage in the amphipod Orchestia marmorata (Haswell). Journal of Zoological Research 3(4): 97-99. 1919 a: The amphipod Orchestia tucuranna, Fritz Muller, of Brazil, redescribed from New Zeland speciemens. Annals and Magazine of Natural Histoiy, series 9, 3:375-386. 1919 b: Ceina, and aberrant genus of the amphipodan family Talitridae. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 51: 1 18-129 1919 c: Destructive boring Crustacea in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Seience and Teehnology 2(1): 3-15. 1920 a: Some New Zealand Amphipoda: No 1. Transaetions and Proeeedings of the New Zealand Institute 52: 1-8. 1920 b: The occurrence in Brisbane River of the New Zealand amphipod, Paracorophium excavatum (G. M. Thomson). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 7(1): 1-8. 1920 c: Note on the oeeurrence in the river Ganges of the amphipod, Ampelisca piisilla Sars. Reeords of the Indian Museum 19(3): 79-80. 1920 d: The oeeurrence in the Philippine Islands of the fresh-water amphipod Paracalliope fliiviatilis (G.M. Thomson). Philippine Journal of Seience 17(5): 513-514. 1920 e: Niphargus philippensis, a new species of amphipod from the underground waters of the Philippine Islands. Philippine Journal of Science 17(5): 515-523, Figs 1-3. 1921 a: Two examples of abnormal antennae in the Crustaeea Amphipoda. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 9, 8: 116-118. 1921 b: Some New Zealand AMphipoda: No. 2. Transaetions and Proeeedings of the New Zealand Institute 53: 220-234. 1921 c: Report on the Amphipoda obtained by the F.I.S: “Endeavour” in Australian seas. Biologieal Results of the Fishing Experiments earried out by the F.I.S. “Endeavour” 1909-1914. 5(2): 31-92. 1921 d: Fauna of the Chilka Lake. Amphipoda. Memoirs of the Indian Museum 5: 519-550. 1921 e: A small collection of Amphipoda from Juan Fernandez. 81-92 p. In “The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island’', Vol 3. C. Skottsberg (Ed.). Almquist and Wiksells Boktryckeri - A. - B. Uppsala. 1922 a: The Flora and Fauna of Nuyt's Archipelago and the Investigator Group. No. 1 - The Amphipoda and Isopoda. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 46: 34-38. 1922 b: Results of Dr. E. Mjobergs Swedish Scientific Expedition to Australia 1910-13. 31 - Amphipoda. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingai' 63(3): 1-11. 1923 a: Some New Zealand Amphipoda: No 3. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 54: 240-245. 1923 b: A blind amphipod from a mine in Bengal. Records of the Indian Museum 25(2): 195-196. 1923 c: Occasional notes on Australian Amphipoda. Records of the Australian Museum 14(2): 79-100. 1924 a: Some New Zealand Amphipoda: No 4. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 55: 269-280. 1924 b: Some New Zealand Amphipoda: No 5. Transactions and Proeedings of the New Zealand Institute 55: 63 1-637. 1925 a: On a species of Talorchestia. China Journal of Science and Arts 3(5): 283-284. 1925 b: Zoological Results of a tour of the Far East. The Amphipoda of Tale Sap. Memoirs of the Asiatic Society of Bengal 6: 531-539. 1925 c: A new blind fresh-water amphipod from Western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 1 1(9): 81-84, Pis 4, 5. 1925 d: Some Amphipoda from the South Orkney Islands. Communicaciones del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural 2: 175-180. 1925 e: Some Amphipoda and Isopoda from the Chatham Islands. Records of the Canterbuiy Museum 2: 317-320. 1926 a: New Zealand Amphipoda. No. 6. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 56: 512-518. 1926 b: Abnormal tel son in the amphipod Bovallia monoculoides (Haswell). New Zealand Journal of Scienee and Technology 8(2): 109-1 10. THOMSON, G.M. and C. CHILTON 1886: Critical list of the Crustacea Malacostraca of New Zealand. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute 18: 141-159. REVIEW Guide to the benthic marine amphipods of southern Africa, by Charles Griffiths, Cape Town, Trustees of the South African Museum, 106 pp. 1976. By Michael H. Thurston The immense increase in ecological studies in recent years has led to a corresponding increase in the demands made on taxonomists for the identification of specimens. At the same time the low priority or even active antagonism given to teaching and financial support of taxonomy throughout the world has led to a shortage of taxonomist. In a number of ‘'difficulf’ but commonly occurring groups, of which the Amphipoda are a prime example, many taxonomists receive more requests for assistance than they can cope with. That most taxonomists have otlier responsibilities - administrative, ecological and so on - only compounds the problem. The increasing number of synecological papers dealing in part or in whole with supra-specific taxa is a reflection of the shortage og taxonomists and taxonomic ability. The well-documented shallow-water amphipod faunas of the North Atlantic and Mediterranean lend themselves to the production of comprehensive regional faunal guides. Such faunal guides enable non-specialists to identify their collecitons with some accuracy, although it should be emphasised that even in these areas undescribed species and unresolved taxonomic problems still exist. Tn less well-known areas these difficulties are compounded and the pitfalls of producing and using a faunal guide are greatly increased. There comes a point at which a faunistic compilation for a fragmentary known fauna can be counter-productive except as a working guide to a specialist. The temptation to publish a regional fauna at too early a stage in the knowledge of that fauna is one which should be resisted despite the pressures of frequent requests for identifications of material by non-specialists. Once a faunal guide has been justified, produced and published, the author can have no direct control over how it is used by non-specialists. As the way in which such a fauna is produced can have considerable indirect bearing on the quantity and quality of data which it generates, the initiating responsibility is a heavy one. With these strictures in mind, the recently published “Guide” can be assessed. The introduction begins with a brief justification for producing such a guide, emphasizing the scattered nature of the relevant literature and the problems that this poses. A short account of the historical background to studies within the area is followed by notes on collection, preservation and examination techniques together with, for the uninitiated, an explanation on how to use the identification keys. The main body of the “Guide” begins with diagnoses of the Amphipoda and the four sub-orders, and diagrams to illustrate amphipod moiphology. A key separating those families recorded in the area is accompanied by a warning against its use in other areas. Each family is diagnosed and the relationships with allied families discussed briefly. One or more keys are provided enabling specific identification to be made. Thumb-nail sketches of the diagnostic characters of most of the 300 or so species of gammarids and caprellids considered clarify the keys. Appendices include a check list of recorded species together with taxonomic and geographical data, and a glossary of terms used. A reference to the five papers by Griffiths which led up to the “Guide” and the brief reference in the “Guide” itself make it clear that the sampling cover is hardly adequate for so great a region. With the exeption of the Cape Province area samples are sparse and veiy patchily distributed. Estuaidne and littoral habits have been more adequately sampled than have sublittoral areas, particularly those beyond the continental shelf The geographical area nominally covered - southern Africa south of 20°S, littoral to 1000m - seems over-optimistic. At the present state of knowledge narrower limits, both geographically and bathymetrical ly, probably would have been more appropriate, and would have prolonged the potential useful life of the “Guide”. The “Guide” is commendably free from errors, and those few which do exist are mostly typographical and unlikely to cause any confusion. The J.L. Barnard reference on p. 74 is to the 1962 publication, not 1972 as printed, and on p. 91 the Griffiths (1975) reference deals with material from west of Cape Agulhas. A map of the reion covered is provided, and it is a minor irritation that some of the localities in both text and Appendix are not included on it. This is probably of little concern to loci sers, but foreign workers will find it something of a nuisance. It is curious, in the section on sexing amphipods that no mention is made of the male genital papillae, surely a useful means of separating the sexes. Storing Amphipod particularly caprellids and long- legged or spinous form in tubes with cotton- wool plugs is not to be recommended: plastic or polystyrene rings, or cotton-wool plugs wrapped in tissue-paper are more satisfactoiy. Such closures greatly reduce the likelihood of entanglement and subsequent damage to delicate specimens. The addition of an index would have been advantageous. These rather minor criticisms do not significantly detract from the value of the “Guide” which will be invaluable to any worker concerned with the benthic amphipods of South Africa and will surely fulfill the professed aim of stimulating further investigation of the group. At a price equivalent to L sterling 1 .70 (about 3 U.S. dollars) it will be within the price range of most likely purchasers. FOUTH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON GAMMARUS AND NIPHARGUS AND SECOND INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON GROUNDWATER ECOLOGY BLACKSBURG, VIRGINIA, U.S.A. - SEPTEMBER 10-16, 1978 June 1977 2^^ Circular Letter Dear Colleagues, We are happy to inform you that there were 85 responses from 20 countries to our first circLilai' letter regarding the 1978 conference in Blacksburg. The objective of the second circular letter is to bring a number of important items to your attention. 1 . In summarizing the responses for the amphipod section of the conference, we noted a strong interest for systematics, ecology, physiology, and ethology and some interest for genetics. An interest was also expressed in having papers in subterranean and/or groundwater related amphipod genera other than Niphargus and Gammarus. Numerous subterranean amphipod genera were mentioned and papers on them are encouraged for the conference (e.g., Crangonyx, Stygobromus, Bogidiella, Ingolfiella^ Hadzia, Symirella, etc.). For the groundwater section of the conference, a number of interesting topics were suggested. Among them were papers on; a) isopods, bathynellids, harpacticoid copepods, thermosbaenaceans, miscellaneous subterranean crustacean groups, water mites, nematodes, etc.; b) pollution, population and community ecology of groundwater systems; c) dispersal and zoogeography; d) phreatic water faunas of different parts of the world; and e) biological ramifications of physic-chemical changes in groundwater habitats. Some of you also suggested topics for infonnal evening discussion sessions and these have been condensed into five basic categories: a) Comparison of regional groundwater faunas, such as the Mediterranean - Caribbean areas; b) Strategies for protection of endangered and threatened gi’oundwater species and ecosystems; c) Revisionary concepts of gammaroidean amphipod taxonomy, with emphasis on ancestral and derived characters,, evolutionary patterns, and creation of higher taxa; d) Ecological classification of groundwater fauna and standardization of groundwater biotype and ecosystem terminology; and e) Sampling techniques for groundwater fauna. Plans are being made for these discussion sessions to be held during the conference. 2. Preliminary Call for Papers: As a convenience to registrants, abstracts of the papers to be presented at the conference till be reproduced (as written), collated and distributed at registration. Abstracts are for information only and will not be considered as formal publication . Deadline for reeeipt of both titles and abstraets will be 31 May 1978. Titles without abstracts will not be accepted. Any titles and abstracts received after 31 May 1978 will not be included in the conference. Rules and regulations for preparation of abstracts must be strictly adhered to and are as follows: a) Written in English, French or German b) Typewritten, double spaced on one side of a single page corresponding to the example attached. The text of the absh'act must be confined to the space and should not exceed approximately 200 words. c) Abstracts should be sent to: Dr. Arthur L. Buikema, Jr. Preparations are being made for publication of papers at the conference. Details will follow in the 3^^^^ circular letter. Manuscripts to be considered for publication will be due during the week of the conference. Papers not received at this time will not be published in the proceedings. 3. A final proposal has been submitted to the National Science Foundation for partial support of the meeting and money for travel grants to support primarily our eastern European colleagues. The chances for funding appear good to excellent, but we probably will not have financial approval for funds until approximately six months prior to the meeting. 4. We would like to bring your attention to the possibility for post-conference field trips and pre- or post-conference visitation to North American museums. a) Arrangements for visiting the National Museum of Canada can be made by contacting Dr. E.E. Bousfield, National Museum of Canada, Museum of Natural Sciences, Ottawa, KFAOM8, Canada. For the Smithsonian Institution, contact Dr. J.F. Barnard or Dr. T.E. Bowman, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural Histoiy, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., U.S.A. b) Two field trips are being planned as follows: (1) A Two-three day excursion to see selected caves and karst groundwater habitats in the Powell Valley of southwestern Virginia. This area is about 200 miles west-southwest of Blackburg. The trip will be led by Drs. D.C. Culver and J.R.Flolsinger. For further details please contact Dr. Hoi singer. (2) A two to three day excursion to the Great Dismal Swamp and the Coastal Plain of southwestern Virginia. This trip will be led by Drs. A.F. Buikema and H.G. Marshall. For further details, please contact Dr. Buikema. Both areas are near airports with connecting flights to other major points in the U.S. 5. A number of people have requested a letter of invitation to faeilitate obtaining permission or a subsidy to attend the conferenee. If you desire a letter of invitation, please contact Dr. Buikema. 6. A third circular letter will be mailed to you in February 1978. Included will be a final call for papers, information on manuscript format for publication, information on housing and meeting accommodations, and details on travel to Blacksburg. With best regards, Arthur L. Buikema, Jr. Associate Professor of Zoology Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University Blacksburg, Virginia 24061, U.S.A. John R. Holsinger Associate Professor of Biological Sciences Old Dominion University Norfolk, Virginia 23508, U.S. A. ABSTRACTS OF UNPUBLISHED THESES 1. Ecologie et echantillonnage des populations hyper be nthiques d'amphipods gammaridiens d'un ecosysteme circalittoral de Vestuarie maritime du Saint- Laurent par Michel BESNER Department des sciences biologiques, Faculte des arts et des sciences, Universite de Montreal, Canada. Memoire presente a la faculte des etudes super! cures en vue de Fobtention de la maitrise en sciences biologiques. Septembre 1976. Memoire constitue de trois articles autonomes er distincts Ee traineau hyperbenthique macer-giroo: adaptation pour F echantillonnage quantitatif etage de la petite faune nageuse au voisinage du fond. 1 - 46 Regime saisonnier et journalier de lumite sous-marine, de temperature et de salinite dans un ecosysteme circa-littoral de Festuaire maritime du Saint-Eaurent en 1970 et 1971. 1-34 Structure ecologique annuelle des associations d'amphipodes gammaridiens dans Fhyperbenthos et Fendobenthos d'un fond vaseux circalittoral de Festuarie maritime du Saint-Eaurent en 1970 et 1971. 1-130 2. An abstract of the thesis of Weldon S. BOSWORTH, Jr. for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Zoology presented on April 30, 1976. Title: Biology of the Genus Eohaustorius (Amphipoda: Haustoriidae) on the Oregon Coast. Abstract approved: Jefferson J. Gonor, Ph.D. This study has identified several ecological and physiological differences between four species of the genus Euhaustorius inhabiting the sandy beaches of the Oregon coast. This study has also documented several population characteristics which not only contribute to the successful maintenance of populations in a rigorous environment but also may act in concert with the ecological and physiological differences to reduce competition between them. In addition, this study has identified several adaptations that seiwe to separate the niches of Eohaustorius spp. from the other abundant malacostracans. The four species, Euhaustorius washingtonianus, E. breviciispis^ E. sawyeri and E. estuarius, although found in close proximity throughout most of their geographic range have their maximum abundances in different portions of the sandy beach habitat. E. estuarius is most abundant in brackish water habitats; E. brevicuspis in the high and mid intertidal regions on exposed beaches; E. washingtonianus in the low intertidal and shallow subtidal in both exposed and sheltered habitat, and E. sawyeri in the shallow subtidal on exposed coasts. The principal differences between the four species included adult size; brood size and total fecundity; tuning of the reproductive cycle; density; intraspecific dispersion; salinity and temperature tolerance and predators. It was also determined that subtle distributional characteristics within E. brevicuspis probably act to both increase reproductive potential by decreasing the probability of interspecific matings, and to also maximize the protection of brooding females. Results of this study also suggests that the peak reproductive period of these species coincides with the time of greatest habitat instability when potential for dispersal to new habitats is greatest. During this time reproductivity is also at its highest and newly released juveniles would have the advantage of having readily available and abundant food supply. Lastly, this study has verified that these four congeners warrant species rank not only because of their morphological differences but also because of their reproductive isolation. 3. The Origin and Distribution of Shallow Water Gammaridean Amphipods in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea with Notes on Their Ecology^ Larry Don McKINNEY, Biology Department, Texas A&M Universit}^ College Station, Texas 77843 ((713) 845-6133 ext. 62), USA. The present study details the occurrence, distribution and origins of shallow water marine gammarideans in the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea. One hundred and forty species are diagnosed or discussed and keys to the families, genera and species are provided to further distinguish them. Twenty tluee new species are described and fully illustrated. They include species of the following genera: Amphilochus (2 species), Ampithoe, Atydus, Ceradocus, Eriopisa, Eusiroides, Gammaropsis, Gitanopsis, Liljeborgia, Listrella (3 species), Maera, Megaluropus, Netamelita, Parametopella, Photis (2 species), Platyischnopus, Polycheira and Seba. The emphasis of study was the ecological grouping of epiphytic amphipods generally associated with either of two series of habitats (biotopes): 1) general soft bottom areas dominated by the physical substrate, or 2) special habitats dominated by a complex biological community on hard substrate or a biological substrate. The first series included: bays, lagoons, intertidal zones, and subtidal areas. The second series included: coral, serpulid and oyster reefs, tropical and temperate grass flats, submerged offshore banks, and offshore artificial substrates. 430 pages, _3 figures and 48 plates. A limited number of copies (20) will be available after July 1, 1977. The copies will cost $25 each (includes handling and postage). Prepay - required, (see address, etc. above) 4. Summaiy of my Doctoral in Biology Thesis, presented at the Biology Institute of Bucharest, S.R. of Romania, last November 1976, with prof Bacescu as tutor, Manolo ORTIZ Contribution to the knowledge to the Gammaridean Amphipods of the Western Cuban Platform. The scientific results obtained during 1972-1975 regarding the Benthic Gammaridean Amphipods of the Western Cuban Platform are pointed out. They are included original determination keys and figures for the 25 families, 41 genera and 73 amphipod species (one new genus, Pseudamphithoides, and five new species, Tropichelura gomezi, Psendoamphithidides bacescui, Nuuanu (...) muelleri, Mallacoota carausci and Meter ophlias seticoxa). A quantitative analy sis of the amphipod biomass was made using Brillouin's diversity index and the test “T” of Student, supplemented with the analysis of the inter- specific relationships of the amphipods, the symbiotic amphipods, the wood boring amphipods, tlie amphipods as stomacal contents of several Cuban fishes, the benthic amphipod distribution according to the most important Cuban biotopes, and a zoogeographical discussion of the most important found species. Finally, a summary of the history of amphipod research all over the world, and in the Caribbean and the Gulf of Mexico is also given. REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION, etc. Cheluridae I should like to correspond and/or exchange material with interested workers in the Florida Keys, Bahamas, and Caribbean area. I would also like to have a series of Tropichelura, Chelura, and Nippochelura from anyone who can spare some specimens. I have found an apparently new species of Tropichelura in the Florida Keys which I believe has recently been described as T. gomezi by Ortiz working in Cuba. 1 feel the initial description was not completely adequate and am planning a redescription if I can obtain the typematerial on loan. James D. THOMAS NEWS FROM COFFEAGUES Jerry F. BARNARD: I have recently visited Australia and Africa before returning to the Smithsonian Institution in mid-December 1976. My three month stay with Margaret Drummond at Victorian Fisheries in Melbourne was most productive. Dhe has discovered the occurrence of Cheirocratiis- like genera (3) in Tasmania and we are plannmg to work these up very soon. We worked up most of the taxa in the Urohaustorius group (16 so far) and made plans to cover many more segments of her vast collections in the next two years of study; the remaining Oedicerotids, Paracalliope and relatives, the remaining gam m arid groups. Gordon S. BOSWORTH, Jr: My Ph.D. dissertation entiteled “Biology of the genus Euhaustonus (Amphipoda: Haustoriidae) on the Oregon coast” was completed and defended at Oregon State University last April (see abstract p. — (17 in original)). Presumably it will be available through University Microfilms in the near future. Thomas E. BOWMAN: Work in progress - 1 . Revision of genus Primno (Hyperiidea: Phrosinidae). Now considered monotypic, but actually contains at least 3 species. 2. Description of new terrestrial Orchestia from Galapagos islands. Pierre BRUNEF: He is presently enjoying a “semi-sabbatical”, and hopes to complete a number of papers for publication: Of his students, Michel Besner completed his Master's Thesis; this consists of three papers, which are available on loan (see p. — (16 in original)). Arthur L. BUTKEMA Jr: My students and T are eurrently working on an isolated spring form population of Gammanis minus minus. In this population the maximum size is 9 mm with an average adult size class of 6 mm. Reproduction occurs all year. All adult females have male genital papillae. By scanning EM and serial sections we are investigating the possibility that this population may be protandrous. Depending in the apparent sex of the animal, it appears that the papillae also may function as oviduct and vas deferens. Kenneth H. BYNUM: I have finished a multivariate analysis of ecotypic valuation in CapreUa penantis in North Carol ma. Principal valuation is in size and robustness of the body and seems to be related to degree of wave exposure. Tn the future I hope to extend this study over broader geographic area, and perhaps also to look at life history variation along the east coast of the United States. Edsel CAINE: is studying the reproduction, dispersion and community interaction in caprellids. James R. CHESS: Our major effort during 72-75 concerned trophic relationships in organisms (assemblages) and their fish predators. Analysis of these data continues and we hope to have the ms completed by spring 1978. Our field work is now concentrated on the subtidal communities off Northern California. I viaualize many interesting problems with amphipods from this area. William J. COOKE: I am a graduate student at the University of Hawaii, in the Zoology Dept, and also a taxonomist at the Marine Environmental Management Office of the Naval Ocean. Systems Command of the U.S. Navy. In the course of our studies, we accumulate a large amount of amphipod material, including at least one new species recently. I would veiy much like to hear of any European workers on Indo-Pacific amphipods. Robert A. CROKER: Research of myself and students includes: RAC-1) Long-term studies of structure and dynamics of marine sand communities, particularly dominant haustoriid amphipod components 2) Autecological studies of Melita nitidci 3) Differentiation of spatially separated populations of Gammarus species. Richard HAGER - Completion of Ph.D. thesis on Amphiporeia virginiana, including life history, behaviour and pelagic occurrence, and distribution related to physical factors. Manaf BEHBEHANI (from Kuwait) - Ph.D. thesis work on Orchestia platensis, including life history and ecology, development, and structure of associated wrack community. Clare McBANE - Ph.D. thesis work on Hyale nilssoni, mcluding life history and ecology, fine structure of selected sensory structure, and amphipod-algal associations. G. J. DADS WELL: I am currently working on the fauna of Passamaquoddy Bay (Bay of Fundy), with special interest in amphipods and mysids. John DICKINSON: has just completed his Ph.D. thesis on the distribution of gammarid amphipods in abyssal waters off Oregon. He is presently working on seasonal fluctuations and depth zonation of gammarids on the outer shelf of the Beaufort Sea. Gary W. DICKSON: Papers in press 1 . The importance of cave mud sediments in food preference, growth and mortality of the troglobitic amphipod crustacean Crangonyx antennatus Packard (Crustaeana) 2. (J.R. Holsinger & S.W. Dickson) Bun’owing as a means of survival in the troglobitic amphipod crustacean Crangonyx antennatus 3. MS thesis (see A.N. 8. P. 15) Iraida 1. GREZE: In 1977 Eli begin preparing for the press another monograph “A key to the amphipods of the Ukrainan SSR”. Krzysztov JAZDZEWSKI: Paper in press (with Ewa Brzezinska-Braszczyk): Reproductive cycle of Gammarus fossarum Koch in Panzer (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in different thermic conditions. Papers in preparation: I. A paper on the respiration of som eantarctic Amphipoda i.a. Parathemisto gaudichaudii, Eusirus perdentatus, Byblis securiger (with K.W. Opalinski) 2. A paper on the amphipods collected by 3 recent Polish Antarctic expeditions (with Cl. De Broyer) Graham S. JOHNSON: The chapter “Crustacea Peracarida” for the series “Reproduction in Marine Invertebrates” (A.C. Giese & J.S. Pearse, eds, Academic Press) is complete and will hopefully go to press in 1977. Diana S. LAUBITZ: My Dulichia paper is in press, and I am hoping to get something written on a small collection of Beaufort sea gammarids. I also try to find time for a collection of subantarctic caprellids, of much interest to me. Gary EEWIS: I began graduate work with John Holsinger in fall 1976 and plan to do thesis research in the systematics of the cave species of Crangonyx in the interior low plateau region of the United States. Don MAURER: Results of an ocean outfall survey in Delaware coastal waters showed the nearshore waters to be dominated by Acanthohaustorius millsi andrt. intermedins, and the midshore habitat by the above two species plus Parahaustorisu attenuatus, P. holmesi, P. longimerus and Protohaustorius wigleyi. P. longimerus was the dominant species in shoal environments. Clare McBANE: (see also sub CROKER): I am currently studying the ecology of Hyale nilssoni on New Hampshire open coastal and estuarine shores. In addition, the coexistence of this species with H. plumulosa at Nobska Beach, Massachusetts is being investigated. . . . B. RHODES: I have recently collected some specimens of Ingolfiella sp. from 4-5 m depth just off the east coast of Florida (Hutchinson Island, IT 20' N, 80° 12' W). I would like some help in identifying them as they are probably new species. They were collected from a shell hash and sand bottom with a Shipek grab. Philip B. ROBERTSON: I have recently been involved in studies in the systematics and ecology of haustoriid amphipods in the Gulf of Mexico. Herman O. SANDERS: I am interested in amphipod culturing in the laboratory, particularly Gammarus. Craig STAUDE: has just completed a two year survey of 5 Puget Sound beaches and is now working on a baseline survey (intertidal - 10m) of the Strait of Juan de Fuca (seaward of Puget Sound). Les WATLING: My work on the peracarids of the continental shelf off the state of New Jersey is coming along well. Thus far I have identified over 70 species of amphipods, of which there are 13 new species and 1 new genus. Good sediment and other ecological data ai'e being taken by the Virginia Institute of Marme Science and this will be available. Beginning this spring I will be handling the amphipods from a similar study in the George's Bank region, all of which will improve our understanding of amphipod distribution along the east coast of the U.S. considerably . D.J. WIEDISH: From August, 1977, for approximately 1 year, I will be on sabbatical leave in the University of Aberdeen. The address is: Universit>’ of Aberdeen c/o Depaitment in Microbiology Marischal College Aberdeen, AB9 IAS Scotland The purpose of the visit is to conduct joint experimental work with Dr. N.J. Poole on the ecology of the sediment/water interface and for me to learn some microbial techniques. Of paiticular interest to us is the “spring effecf ’ macrofauna have on the development of anoxic conditions in sediments. Important in the Bay of Fundy for this are Pontoporeia femorata and Casco bigelowi. Not much of my recent work has been concerned with amphipods, although a recent review, now available (Wildish, D.J. “Biased sex ratios in invertebrates”, to be published in “Advances in invertebrate reproduction” with other contributions given at the International Symposium on Invertebrate Reproduction held in Kerala, India, 1975 (1977)), and bibliography (Wildish, D.J. “A selected bibliography of invertebrate sex ratio data” Fish. Mar. Serv. Dev. Tech. Rep. 630, 1976, 37 p.), owe their existence to my graduate work interest in sex ratio of Orchestia (Talitridae). The review attempts to encourage an experhnental interest in the dynamics and demography of sex ratio. Amphipods are excellent subjects for such an attempt and I would welcome correspondence from anyone embarking on such a venture. MAJOR AMPHIPOD COLLECTIONS The Amphipod collection of the Zoological Museum Hamburg - Zoologisches Museum der Universitat Hamburg - mainly consists of Gammaridea. During the Second World War the whole collection of the Zoological Museum was stored outside. In that way the collection of Amphipoda has been damaged and decimated, too. Today the collection of gammaridean Amphipoda includes 31 families with 369 species. Typematerial is present of 102 species and 1 1 subspecies. The species are spread among the following families: Acanthonotozomatidae (8 species), Ampeliscidae (22), Amphilochidae (1), Ampithoidae (5), Atylidae (6), Calliopiidae (9), Cheluridae (1), Corophiidae (47), Dexaminidae (5), Eusiridae (25), Gammaridae (68), Haustoriidae (12), Hyalellidae (3), Hyalidae (6), Hyperiopsidae (1), Ischyroceridae (8), Leucothoidae (2), Eiljeborgiidae (4), Eysianassidae (37), Melphidippidae (1), Oedicerotidae (24), Pai'amphithoidae (4), Pardaliscidae (4), Phoxocephalide (10), Pleustidae (9), Podoceridae (9), Sebidae (1), Stegocephalidae (8), Stenothoidae (11), Synopiidae (1), Talitridae (17). This list is based on nomenclature and systematics according to BARNARD (1958, 1969, 1973), BAZIKAEOVA (1945), BULYCHEVA (1957) and GURIANOVA (1951). The collection of Gammaridea predominantly includes material of European and adjacent seas, the Atlantic, and Lake Baikal. The Material encloses the collections of DYBOWSKI (Lake Baikal 1871), 'T. Deutschen Polar-station 1882/1883” (south Georgia), KUKENTHAL (Spitzbergen), MICHAELSEN (Westcoast of Africa, Subantarctic), and last but not least a part of the ‘Typensammlung G.O. Sars”. Furthermore the collection includes material sampled by captains (e.g. HLIPFER, KOPHAMEL and PAESSLER). Reviser of the collection was above all SCHEEEENBERG. A paper “Verzeichnis der Typen aus der Sammlung Crustacea der Zoologischen Instituts und Zoologischen Museums der Universitat Hamburg. Amphipoda, Gammaridea” (by ANDRES & LOTT) is in press. LIST OF SUBSCRIBERS I hope the addresses in this list are reasonably correct; if not, it is mostly my own fault, as I have copied earlier addresses in all cases where 1 did not receive corrections. Daniele Dumay and mr. Fearn-Wannan are omitted from the new list, as they are apparently no longer working on amphipods. Dr. N.J. Alouf Faculte des Sciences Universite Libanaise Wadath-Beyrouth 6160 Liban Dr. A. Andersson N aturhistoriska RLksmuseet Sektionen for Evertebratzoologi S-104 05 Stockholm 50 Sverige Dr. H.G. Andres Zoologisches Institut und Zoologisches Museum Universitat Hamburg ..on-Me 11 e-Park 10 ..000 Hamburg 13 Deutschland Dr. 1. Arimoto The Museum Tokyo University of Fisheries ..-5-7 Konan, minato-ku Tol' Gulf Coast Reseach Lab Clean Spring, Mississippi 39564 USA The Library Moss Landing Marine Laboratories P.O. Box 223 Moss Landing, CA 95039 USA The Library . . . senstiel School of Marine/Athmospheric Sciences ...00 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149 USA Physical Sciences Libraiy ..0 University Street Montreal Quebec H3C 3G Canada Dr. R. Lincoln British Museum (Natural History) Division of Crustacea Cromwell Road London SW 7 England Dr. A.P.M. Lockwood Department of Oceanography The University Southampton England Dr. James K. Lowry Curator Crustacea The Australian Museum 6-8 College Street Sydney 2000 Australia Dr. C. Macquait-Moulin Faculte des Sciences Naturelles Hydrobiologie Marine Route Leon Lechamp-Luminy Marseilles 9e France Dr. L.P. Madin Zoology Department University of California Davis, CA 95616 USA Dr. Marion J. van Maren 5 c/o Institute of Animal Taxonomy Zoologisch Museum PL Middenlaan 53 Amsterdam Holland (|see p 59| ) Dr. R: Margulis 5 Zoologieal Faeulty Moseow State University Moseow USSR Dr. A. Mateus Institute de Zoologia . . . Augusto Nobre Universidade de Porto Porto Portugal Dr. E. de Oliveira Mateus 5 Institute de Zoologiea .. Augusto Nobre Universidade de Porto Porto Portugal Dr. Jaek Mathias Department of the Environment ..shwater Institute ..University Creseent Winnipeg Manitoba R3T 2N6 Canada Dr J. Mathieu Universite Claude Bernard Department de Biologie Animale et ..logie Biologie Souterraine ... Bd. Du 11 November 1918 ..69 Villeurbanne Eranee Dr. H. Matsudo ..Joseph Hospital St Alameda & S Buena Vista Boulevard, Burbank (CA?) USA Dr. D. Maurer University of Delaware College of Marine Studies Eield Station .. DE 19958 USA Dr. Clare MeBane 5 Zoology Dept. Spaulding Eife Seienee Building University of New Hampshire Durham, NH 03824 USA Dr. J.C. MeCain Environmental Department Hawaiian Eleetrie Company P.O. Box 2750 Honolulu, HI 96803 USA Dr. David MeGrath Dept of Zoology University College Galway Eire Dr. Earry MeKinny Biology Dept Texas A&M University College Station, TX 77843 USA Dr. D. MeEusky Department of Biology University of Stirling Stirling Seotland Dr. Jean-Jaques Meusy Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Eaboratorie de sexualite et reproduetion des Invertebres Bat. A 4 Plaee Jussieu 75230 Paris Cedex 05 Eranee Dr. M.P.D. Meyering Limnologische Fluszstation 6407 Schlitz Deutschland (BRD) Dr. A.D. Michael Marine Biological Laboratory Woods Hole, MA 02543 USA Dr. A. Mills Department of Zoology The University College of Wales ..englais Aberyswyth Wales Dr. Eric L. Mills Institute of Oceanography Dalhousie University Halifax Nova Scotia Canada Dr. J.L. Mohr Department of Biological Sciences University of Southern California University Park Los Angeles, CA 90007 USA Dr. Th. Monod Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle Peches Outre-Mer 57 ..e Cuvier Paris 5e France Dr. P.G. Moore University Marine Biological Station Isle of Cumbrae ..llport Scotland Dr. Christiane Morand 5 ..S.A.I.A. ...bis rue Ste Catherine ..64000 Nancy France Dr. Ph.D. Morduckhai-Boltovski Institute of Biology of Inland Waters Academy of Sciences USSR Kuibyshev USSR Dr. Hiroshi Morino Dept of Biology Ibaraki University Mito3I0 Japan Dr. Yashuiro Morioka Japan Sea Regional Fisheries Research Lab Nishifunami-cho Niigata 95 1 Japan Dr. A. Myers Department of Zoology University College Cork Eire Dr. Brad Myers Southern California Coastal Water Project Research 1500 East Imperial Highway El Segundo, CA 90245 USA Dr. Kizo Nagata Nasei Regional Fisheries Research Laboratoiy 6-1-21 Sanbashi-dori Kochi 780 Japan Dr. K.K. Chandrasekharan Nair Indian Ocean Biological Centre P.B. No 13 Pullenpady Cross Road Ernakulam (Cochin 16) India Dr. Walter G. Nelson Duke University Marine Laboratory Beaufort NC 28516 USA Dr. T. Nemoto Japan Research Institute University of Tokyo, 15-1 ..home ..amidai, Nakano Tokyo Japan New Zealand Oceanographic Institute ..S.I.R. P.O. Box 8009 Wellington New Zealand Dr. A.M. Nocentini 5 Instituto Italiano de Idro-Zoologia 28048 Pallanza ..ovara Italia Dr. W. Noodt Zoologisches Institut der Universitat Hegewischstr. 3 ...Kiel Deutschland (BRD) Dr. R. Olerod Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet Sektion for Eveitebratzoologi SE-104 05 Stockholm Sverige Dr. Manole Ortiz Centre de Investigaciones Marina ..e 17a ..2808 Miramar ..Habana Cuba Dr. Henry M. Page 85 Tecolote Ave Goleta, CA 93017 USA Dr. L Pardi Instituto de Zoologia Universita de Eirenze Firenze Italia Dr. H.G. Pieper Limnolgische Fluszstation 6407 Schlitz Deutschland (BRD) Dr. S. Pinkster Institute of Animal Taxonomy Zoologisch Museum PI. Middenlaan 53 Amsterdam Holland Dr. M. Pljakic 5 Institut za Zoologiju Pri rodno-Matematicki F akultet Studentski TRG3HI 11000 Beograd Yugoslavia Dr. G. S. Preece Lansing College Sussex England Dr. P. Rabindranath Department of Zoology N.S.S. College Changanacherry 2 (Kerala) India Dr. S. Rakusa-Suszczewski Separtment of Bioenergetics and Bioproductivity Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology Pasteura 3 Warszawa Poland Dr. L. J. Rees University College North Wales ...rine Science Laboratories . . .nai Bridge (Anglesey) Wales Dr. R. Repelin Centre ORSTCM ..umea ..uvelle Caledonie Dr. J.L. Reygrobellet Universite Calude Bernard Depaitement de Biologic Animale Inst Zoologie Biologic Souterraine .. Bd du 11 Novembre 1918 ..69 Villeurbanne France Dr. W. B. Rhodes ..91 New Peachtree Rd. ..ite 115 Atlanta, GA 30340 USA Dr. Phillip Robertson Dpt. Biology ..nar University P.O. Box 10037 Beaumont, TX 77710 USA Dr. A. -L. Roux Universite Cl. Bernard (Lyon I) Depaitement de Biologic Animale et Zoologie F-69 Villeurbanne France Dr. C. Roux $ Universite Cl. Bernard (Lyon I) Depaitement de Biologic Animale et Zoologie F-69 Villeurbanne France Dr. S. Ruffo Museo Civico de Storia Naturale Lungadige Porto Vitoria 9 1-37100 Verona Italia Dr. B. Rygg N.LV.A. Gaustadalleen 25 Blindern Oslo 3 Norge Dr. H. O. Sanders Fish-Pesticide Research Laboratory Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife Columbia, MO 65201 USA Dr. J.M. Sanderson Department of Natural History The Royal Scottish Museum Edinburgh 1 Scotland Dr. Y. Saudray Laboratoire d'Ecologie Marine et de la Biologic Marine Boulevard Michelet 44 Nantes France Dr. Felicita Scapini $ Institute de Zoologia delFUniversita Via Romana 17 1-50125 Firenze Italia Dr. U. Schiecke ..Zoologisches Institutt der Universitat Schloszgarten 12 .. Kiel Deutschland (BRD) Dr. John K. Scott . . . Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Research. . . Narragansett, RI 02882 USA Dr. Scott W. Gray ..2 Kenilworth Avenue Springfield VA22151 USA Dr. S.G. Segerstrale Institute of Marine Research Zoological Laboratoiy Bolevardi 9a Helsinki 12 Finland Dr. Hitoshi Semura Dept, of Planktology Faculty of Fisheries Hokkaido University ..odate Hokkaido 040 Japan Dr. A. Skalski Museum w Cz^stochowie Czestochowa Poland Dr. B. Sket InstitLit za Biologija Univerze Askerceva 12 pp. 141/III Ljubljana Yugoslavia Dr. N. Serban 5 Institut za Zoologiju ..rodno- Matematicki Fakultet ..adentski TRG 3 / II ... 00 Beograd Yugoslavia Dr. M. Sheader ..ve Marine Laboratory ..lercoats ..th Shields ..thumberland England Dr. Chang-Tai Shih National Museum of Natural Sciences Canadian Oceanographic Identification Centre Ottawa Canada Dr. R. Schillaker University Marine Biological Station Millport Isle of Cumbrae KA 28 OEG Scotland Dr. K. Shyamasundari 5 Department of Zoology Andhra University Waltair India Dr. T. E. Sivaprakasam Zoological Survey of India Southern Regional Station Mylapore ( Madras 4) India Dr. P.N. Slattery Moss Eanding Marine Eaboratories P.O. Box 223 Moss Eanding, CA 95039 USA Dr. S. Sidney Slocum Dept, of Zoology University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC 27514 USA Dr. D. H. Steele Department of Zoology Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland Canada Dr. V.J. Steele $ Department of Zoology Memorial University of Newfoundland St. John's, Newfoundland Canada Dr. J. H. Stock Institute of Animal Taxonomy Zoologisch Museum PI. Midden laan 53 Amsterdam Holland Dr. M. Stra§kraba Hydrobiologicka Eaborator ..tavska 17 Praha 5 Tzechoslovakia Dr. S. Sudara Department of Marine Sciences ..ulalongkorn University Bangkok Thailand Dr. D. W. Sutcliffe Fresh Water Biological Association The Ferry House ..r Sawry ..bleside stmorland England Dr. H. Tamura Department of Biology Ibaraki University MitoSlO Japan Dr. Akira Taniguchi Taboratory of Oceanography Faculty of Agriculture Tohoku University Sendai 980 Japan Dr. Ester Taramelli 5 Lnstituto di Zoologia Viale delFUniversita 32 00100 Roma Italia Dr. W. Teichmann Limnologische Fluszstation 6407 Schlitz Deutshland (BRD) Dr. Dang ngoc Thanh Chaire de Zoologie Invertebreee Faculte de Biologic Universite de Hanoi Hanoi Vietnam Dr. James D. Thomas Newfound Harbour Marine Institute Rt. 1 Box 170 Big Pine Key, FL 33043 USA Dr. Michael Thurston Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Worm ley Godalming Surrey England Dr. E. Tibaldi Laboratoria di Zoologia .. 'Universita .. Celoria 10 20133 Milano Italia Dr. Marie-Jose Turquin 5 Universite Calude Bernard Departement de Biologic Animale et Zoologie Biologic Souterraine ..43 Bd. Du 1 1 Novembre F-69621 Villeurbanne France Dr. N. Tzvetkova 5 Zoological Institute Academy of Sciences USSR ..164 Leningrad USSR Dr. Wim Vader Tromso Museum 9000 Tromso Norge Dr. Carlos S. Varela lnstituto de Zoologia Universidad Austral de Chile Valdivia Chile Dr. Kris W. Thoemke Dept of Biology Univ of South Florida Tampa, FL 33620 USA Dr. S. V. Vassilenko ? Zoological Institute Academy of Sciences USSR ..164 Leningrad USSR Dr. A Vigna-Taglianti Institute de Zoologia delLUniversita Viale delLUniversita 32 1-00100 Roma Italia Dr. M. Vincent Laboratoire de Biologie Animate Faculty des Sciences Limoges France Dr. Les Watling Dept of Oceanography Univ of Maine at Orono Wadpole, ME 04573 USA Dr. A. M. Wenner University of California Santa Barbara Department of Biological Sciences Santa Barbara, CA 93 106 USA Dr. D. J. Wildish Biological Station St. Andrews N.B. EOG 2X0 Canada Temporary addr. (1 aug. 1977-mid 1978) University of Aberdeen e/o Dept of Mierobiology Marinchal College Aberdeen AB9 1A5 Seotland Dr. Adele Williams 5 Dept of Zoology University of Bristol ..odland Road Bristol England Dr. C. Zerbib Eab. De Sexualite des Invertebres ..atiment C. ..m 32 Universite de Paris VI ..230 Paris Cedex 05 France Dr. Brenton Knott Dept of Zoology The University of Western Australia Nedlands W.A. 6009 Australia BIBEIOGRAPHY The review of Tzvetkova's book has to be postponed once more. Mike Thurston's review of Charles Griffith's book on S. Afriean amphipods appears elsewhere in this issue. Claude De Broyer and Jan Stoek have again assisted by sending referenees, and, starting from this issue, Iraida Greze has sent lists of recent Russian papers, a very welcome addition. I am still waiting for offers to help me with “'subterranean literature”, Japanese and South American national journals, and the C.R. Acad. Sci Paris, all of which are of diffieult aeeess to me. BIBLIOGRAPHY I ABOLMASOVA, G. L, 1975 (The Black Sea amphipod Gammanis olivii i dependance of food intake per day on body weight). Biologiya Morya, Vladivostok 5, 45-48. (In Russian) ANGER, K. & C. VALENTIN, 1976. In situ studies on the diurnal activity pattern of Diastylis rathkei (Cumacea, Crustacea) and its importance for the “hyperbenthos”. Helgol. wiss. Meeresuntersu 28, 138-144. (An important paper because of its critique of the methods commonly used in studies of hyperbenthic animals). ARAMANT, R. & R. ELOFSSON, 1976. Monoaminergic neurons in the nervous systems of Crustaceans. Cell. Tiss. Res: 170, 231-251. BARNARD, J. E., 1976. Amphipoda (Crustacea) from the Indo-Pacific tropics. A review. Micronesia 72, 169-181. BARNARD, J. L., 1976. Affinities of Paraniphargus lelouparum Monod, a blind anchialine amphipod (Crustacea) from the Galapagos islands. Proc. biol. Soc. Wash 89, 421-432. (Transferred to the new genus GalapsieUiis, which the author considers to be an apomorphic melitid with phreatifonn adaptations, derived from a form near Eriopisa) BARNARD, J. L. & E. SCHULENBERGER, 1976. Clarification of the abyssal amphipod, Paralicella tenuipes Chevreux. Crustaceana 31, 261 -21 (With a redescription of this species and a key to Paralicella species. Alicella scotia belongs in Ewythenes.) BAZIKALOVA, A. Ya., 1975. (On the taxonomy of Baikal amphipods. ) Trudy limnol. Inst. Sibirs. Otdel. Akad. Nauk. SSSR 18 (38), 31-81. (In Russian, not seen. Deals with the genera Carcinogammanis, Eucarinogammarus, Echiuropus, & Asprogarnmarus n. gen., and with 2 subgenera of Echiuropus and Smaragdogammarus . Keys and diagnoses of 7 nov. spp. And 3 nov. ssp. are given). BAZIKALOVA, A. Ya., 1975. (New amphipods of Lake Baikal). Trudy limnol. Inst Sibirs. Otdel. Akad. Nauk SSSR 18 (38), 81-92. (In Russian, not seen. Kozhinova n. gen., and 6 new spp and ssp in the gQRQm Eulimnogammarus, Macropereiopus, Plesiogammarus & Homocerisca). BENDER, J.A., 1975. Trace metal levels in beach dipterans and amphipods. Bull, environm. Contain, Toxicol. 14, 187-192. (Not seen) BETHEL, W. M. & J. C. HOLMES. Increased vulnerability of amphipods to predation owing to altered behaviour induced by larval acanthocephalans. Can. J. Zool. 55, 110-115. BLANCHET, M. F., H. JUNERA & J.-J. MEUSY, 1975. Mue et vitellonenese chez Orchestia gammarella Pallas (Crustace Amphipode): etude de la fraction proteique femelle apres introduction d'ecdysterone. Experientia 31, 865-867. BOESCH, D.F., RJ. DIAZ & R. W. VIRNSTEIN, 1976. Effects of tropical storm Agnes on soft-bottom macrobenthic communities of the James and York estuaries and the lower Chesapeake Bay. Chesapeake Sci. /7, 246-259. BUENHEIM, H.-P., 1976. Gammarus tigrinus, ein neues Faunenelement der Ostseeforde Schlei. Schr. naturw. Ver. Schelsw.-Holst. 46, 79-84. BUSHUEVA, I.V., 1975. (On the ecology of the amphipod Pararnoera walker in the Davis Sea (Eastern Antarctic)). Sbornik, Biologija Shelfa'tesisy dokladov vsesoyusnoi konferentsii, Vladivostok, 21-22. (In Russian, not seen. Equation of weight to body length: W=0,0024 * E^’^^^) COLE, G. A. & R. L. WATKINS, 1977. Hyalella montezumae, a new species (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Montezuma Well, Arizona. Hydrobiologia 52, 175-184. CROISILLE, Y., H. JUNERA, J.-J. MEUSY & H. CHARNIAUX-COTTON, 1974. The female-specific protein (vitellogenic protein) in Crustacea with particular reference to Orchestia gammarella (Amphipoda). Am. Zool. 14, 1219-1229. CUSHING, D. H. & R. R. DICKSON, 1976. The biological response in the sea to climatic changes. Adv. mar. Biol. 14, 1-122 (An important review) DABROWSKI, K. & J. GLOCOWSKI, 1977. Studies on the proteolytic enzymes of invertebrates constituting fish food. Hydrobiologia 52, 171-174. (i.a. Gammarus pulex). DORIES, J., 1976. Primargefuge, Bioturbation und Makrofauna als Indikatoren des Sandversatzes im Seegebiet vor Norderney (nordsee). 2. Zonierung und Verteilung der Makrofauna. Senkenbergiana marit. 8, 171-188. DULEPOV, V.l. & N.A. ORLOVA, 1975. (Biology of mass species of beach fleas (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from Kunashir Island (Kurile Islands.) Sbornik “Modelirovanie biologicheskikh sooloshchestv’; Vladivostok, 98-116. (In Russian, not seen. Deals with Orchestia ochotensis, Talorchestia crassicornis, and Orchestiodea trinitatis from Lake Lagunnae and the supralittoral of Kunashir Straits.) ELOFSSON, R., 1976. Rhabdom adaptation and its phylogenetic significance. Zool. ScriptaJ, 97-101. FENWICK, G. D., 1976. The effect of wave exposure on the amphipod fauna of the alga Caulerpa browni. J. exp. mar. Biol. Ecol. 25, 1-18. (Not seen) GABLE, M.F. & R. A. CROKER, 1977. The salt marsh amphipod, Gammarus palustris Bousfield, 1969 at the northern limit of its distribution. 1. Ecology and its life cycle. Estuar. coast, mar. Sci. 5, 123-134. GINET, R. 1976. Troisieme colloque international sur les generes Niphargus et Gammarus, Schlitz (R. F. d'Allemagne), 1975. Compte rendu de travail du groupe pour la systematique de Niphargus. Ann. Speleol. 31, 271-272. GINSBURGER-VOGEL, T. & M. C. CARRE-LECUYER, 1976. Transmission experimentale d'un facteur responsable de I'intersexualite des males chez Orchestia gammarellus (Pallas). Experientia 32, 1161-1162. GINSBURGER-VOGEL, T., T. DESPORTES & C. ZERIB, 1976. Presence chez TAmphipode Orchestia gammarellus (Pallas) d'un Protiste parasite, ses affmites avec Marteilia refringens agent de Tepizooite de T Huitre platte. C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris 283 D, 939-942. GOSS-CUSTARD, J. D., 1977. The energetics of prey selection by Redshank, Tringa totalus (L.) in relation to prey density. J. Anim. Ecol. 46, 1-19. GOSS-CUSTARD, J. D., 1977. Predator responses and prey mortality in Redshank, Tringa totalus (L.) and a preferred prey, Coropium volutator (Pallas). J. Anim. Ecol. 21-35. GUGLIELMO, L., L. COSTANZO & A. BERDOS, 1973. (Final contribution to the knowledge of the Crustacea washed ashore along the Sicilian coast of the Straits of Messina). Atti Soc. Peloritana, Scienze Fis. Mat. eNat. 19, 129-156 (i.a. 13 species of Hyperiidea. In Italian) HAAGE, P., 1976. Quantitative investigations of Baltic Fucus belt macrofauna 3. Seasonal valuation in biomass, reproduction and population dynamics of the dominant taxa. Contrib. Asko Lab. Univ. Stockholm 10, 1-84 (Not seen, unfortunately) HAMNER, W.M., L.P. MADIN, A.L. ALLDREDGE, R.W. GILMER & P. P. HAMNER, 1975. Underwater observation of gelatinous zooplankton: sampling problems, feeding biology and behavior. Limnol. Oceanogr. 20, 907-917. lAZLETT, A. & R. SEED, 1976. A study of Fucus spiralis and its associated fauna in Strangtjord Lough, Co. Down. Proc. R. Irish Acad. 76 B, 607-618. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY VIENNA (AUSTRIA), 1976. Effects of ionizing radiation on aquatic organisms and ecosystems. Tech. Rep. Ser. IAEA 772, 1-131. ISAACS, J. D. & R. A. SCHWARTZLOSE, 1975. Active animals of the deep-sea floor. Scient. American 233, 85-91 (Not seen) JAZDZEWSKI, K. & A. W. SKALSKI, 1976. (3“^ International Colloquium on Gammarus and Niphargiis and C’ International Symposium on Groundwater Ecology.) Przeglad Zool. 20, 464-467 (In Polish, with many photographs of amphipodologists) JENSEN, K. & K. F. JORGENSEN, 1977. Notes on four crustaceans from Danish water. Biokon Rep. 3, 1-18 (i.a. Melita palmate, and Microdeutopiis gryllotalpa) JUMARS, P.A. & R. R. HESSLER, 1976. Hadal community structure: implications for the Aleutian trench. J. mar. Res. 34, 547-560. (Not seen) JUST, J., 1976. On the marine genus Menigratopsis Dahl, 1945, from North Atlantic and Arctic waters (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Lysianassidae). Astarte P, 1-12. KARAMAN, G.S., 1976. '71 Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda. Two Niphargus species from Crna Gora, A. pavicevici n.sp. and N. evijici S. Karaman, 1950 (Fam. Gammaridae). Glas. Republ. Zavoda Zast. Prirode-Prirodnjackog Muzeja Titograd P, 21-30. KARAM.4N, G.S., 1975. '73 Contribution to the knowledge of Amphipoda. Three Niphargus species from Yugoslavia and Italy, N. ambulatory n.sp., N. pupetta (Sket) and N. transitivus Sket (fam. Gammaridae). Poljoprivreda i Sumar§tvo 21, 13-34. KARAMAN, G.S., 1976. Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 75. Description of one new species of the genus Gammarus (family Gammaridae) from the Ohrid Lake, G. stankokaramani n.sp. Poljoprivreda i Sumarstvo 22, 87-96. KARAMAN, G.S., 1976. Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 76. Gammarus macedonicus n, sp., one new species from Ohrid Lake. Posebno Izdonic. Mus. Macedonici Scient. nat. 7, 71-79. KAY, D.G. & R. D. KNIGHTS, 1977. The macro-invertebrate fauna of the intertidal soft sediments of south-east England. J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K. 55, 811-832. KENNEDY, C.R. & A. RUMPUS, 1977. Long-term changes in the size of the Pomphorynchus laevis (Acantocephala) population in the river Avon. J. Fish. Biol. 10, 35-42 KOCATAS, A., 1976. Note preliminarie sur les amphipodes recuellis dans les horizons superieurs de I'etage infralittoral rocheux du Golfe d 'Izmir (Turquie). Tethys 7 (1975), 235-240. (Not seen) KOCATAS, A., 1976. Note sur le peuplement a Cystoseira crinite Bary dans le Golfe d'Izmir (Turquie). Tethys 7 (1975), 241-248. (Not seen) LAVAL, Ph. & P. LECHER, 1975. Caryotypes, chromosomes surnumeraires, parthenogenese rudinientaire et polyploide ches deux especes du genre Phromina (Crustaces, Amphipodes). Can. J. Genet. Cytol. 77, 405-412. LEDOYER, M., 1975. Les peuplements benthiques des fonds de Bale et les grands aspects boinomiques de la Bale des Chaleurs. Trav. Lecheries Quebec 43, 1-33. LEMCHE, H., B. HANSEN, F. JENSENIUS MADSEN, O.S. TENDAL & T. WOLF, 1976. Hadal life as analysed from photographs. Vidensk. Meddr. dansk naturh. Foren. 139, 263-336 (A fascinating paper). LINCOLN, R. J., 1976. A new species of Amphithoe (Pleonexes) (Amphipoda: Amphithoidae ) from the North-East Atlantic with a redescription of A. (P.) gammar aides (Bate). Bull. Brit. Mus. nat. Hist. (Zool.) 30, 229-241. LINDEN, O., 1976. Effects of oil on the amphipod Gammarus oceanicus. Environ. Poll. 10, 239-250. EOCKWOOD, A.P.M., 1976. Physiological adaptation to life in estuaries. Pp. 315-392 in R. C. Newell (ed.) Adaptation to environment. Essays on the physiology of marine animals. Butterworths, London-Boston. EOWRY, J.K. & S. BUEEOCK, 1976. Catalogue of the marine gammaridean Amphipoda of the Southern Ocean. Bull. roy. Soc. N.Z. 16, 1-187 ( A most useful compilation. See A.N. 8 p 12) MACEK, K.J., K.S. BUXTON, S. SAUTER, S. GUIEKA & J.W. DEAN, 1976. Chronic toxicity of Atrazine to selected aquatic invertebrates and plants. Ecol. Res. Ser. US Environm. Protection Agency, EPA 600/3-76-047, 1-58. (Deals i.a. with Gammarus fasciatus. Not seen) MEUSY, J.-J., E. BARTHELEMY, D. NAY, A. BEEAUD & E. GIRIN, 1976. Experimentation hyperbare (110 atmospheres) chez un Crustace amphipode Talitridae (Orchestia gammarella (Pallas)). Hydrobiologia 57, 139-147. (No evident effects). MOORE, P.G., 1977. Additions to the littoral fauna of Rockall, with a description of Aracolaimus penelope sp. nov. (Nematoda; Axonolaimidae) J. mar. biol. Ass. UK 57, 191-200. (No amphipods collected, so the single Hyale nilssoni of Crisp is still the only amphipod known) MYKEEBUST, R., B. MIDTTUN & A. TJ0NNEEAND, 1976. The membrane systems of the cardiac muscle cell of Tmetonyx cicada O. Fabricius (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Cell. Tiss. Res. 173, 451-560. NAYEOR, E., 1976. Ehytlunic behaviour and reproduction in marine animals. Pp. 393-429 in R.C. Newell (ed.) Adaptation to environment. Essays on the physiology of marine animals. Butterwoith, Eondon-Boston. NIEOVA, O. L, 1976. (Some data on the ecology and biology of Gmelionides fasciatus acclimatiszed in Otradnoe lake, Leningrad district.) Izv. Nauchno-issles. Inst, ozernogo i rechnogo ryb. khoz. Leningrad 110, 10-15 (In Russian, not seen). NILSSON, L.M. & P SJOSTROM, 1977. Colonization of implanted substrates by differently sized Gammarus pidex (Amphipoda). Oikos 28, 43-48. OSADCHIKH, V.F.A., 1977. (A finding of Cardiophilus baeri in the marsupium of corophiids (Amphipoda, Gammaridae).) Zool. Zhurn. 56, 156-158 (in Russian). PAVEYUCHKOV, V.A., 1976?. (Some data on composition and distribution of amphipods (Gammaridae) in the sublittoral of the bay Petra Velikogo (Sea of Japan)). Izv. Tikho-ok. Inst. ryb. khoz. okeanogr. 98, ?-?. (In Russian, not seen.) PERCY, J.A. & T. C. MULLIN, 1977. Effects of crude oil on the locomotory activity of arctic marine invertebrates. Mar. Poll. Bull. 8, 35-40. (Eow oil concentration significantly impair locomotory activity in Onisimns affinis). PONOMAREVA, Z. A,, 1975. (Salt tolerance of Dikerogammarus haemobaphes (Eichwold) from the Dniepr-mouth region.) Gidrobiol. Zhurn. 11 (6), 84-86. (In Russian, not seen) PONOMAREVA, Z. A., 1976. (Distribution of some amphipods of the Caspian- relict complex in thermogradient condition.) Izv. nauchno-issled Inst, ozernogo i rechnogo ryb. Idioz. Eeningrad 110, 36-40. (In Russian, not seen) PNONMAREVA, Z.A. & G.A. KRASUTSKAYA, 1976. (On the biology of the amphipod Chaetogammanis ischnus (Stebbing) in the Dnieper estuary (Black Sea basin). Izv. nauchno-issled Inst, ozernogo i rechnogo ryb. khoz. Leningrad 110, 27-35. (In Russian, not seen) POPIEL, L, 1976. The ultrastructure of the metacaridea of Cercaria stunkardi Palombi, 1934 (Digena: Opecoelidae) in an experimental host, Amphithoe rubricata. Norw. J. Zool. 24, 353-364. REIMER, A. A., 1975. Description of a Tetraclita stalactifera panamensis community on a rocky intertidal Pacific shore of Panama. Mar. Biol. 35, 225-238. (See also 239-251) RYLAND, J.S., 1976. Physiology and ecology of marine Bryozoa. Adv. mar. Biol. 14, 285-443. (A most useful review paper) SAIAG, P., 1976. Action des rayons X sur la mortalite des individus puberes er la feitilite des femelles chez le crustace amphipode Orchestia gammareUus (Pallas). C.R. Acad. Sci. Paris 282 D, 1979-1982. SCHELOSKE, H.-W., 1976. 1st die Unterteilung des Magens der Malacostraca in “Carida” und “Pylorus” berechtigt? Ein Beitrag zur vergleichenden Anatomic der Crustacea - Malacostraca. Z. zool. Syst. Evol. f 14, 253-280. (According to the author, the answer to the question in the title is “No”) SCOTT, K.J. & R.A. CROKER, 1 976. Macroinfauna in northern New England marine sand. 3. The ecology of Psammonyx nobilis (Stimpson, 1853) (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Can. J. Zool. 54, 1519-1529. SEGERSTRALE, S.G., 1976. Immigration of relicts into northern Europe. Boreas 5, 1-7 (not seen). SEGERSTRALE, S.G., 1976. Proglacial lakes and the dispersal of glacial relicts. Commentat. biol. 83, 1-15. SCHULENBERGER, E. & J.L. BARNARD, 1976. Amphipods from an abyssal trap set in the North Pacific gyre. Crustaceana 31, 241-258. (With descriptions of Orchomene gerulicornis n.sp. (=0. affinis Birstein & Vinogradov, non Holmes), Paralicella tenuipes andP. caperesca n.sp.) STEELE, D.H., 1976. Seasonal changes in abundance of Gammarus oceanicus (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Newfoundland. Can. J. Zool. 54, 2019-2022. STOCK, J.H., 1976. A new member of the crustacean suborder Ingolgiellidea from Bonaire. Stud. Fauna Curacao 50, 56-75. (An important paper in which the sub order is divided into 2 families, with 3 genera (Metaingolfiella, Tragi oleleiipia, Ingolfiella), the latter with 5 subgenera {Ingolfiella, Balcanella, Hanseniella, Trianguliella n. subgen (type /. manni) and Gevgerliella). I (G.) putealis n. sp. Is described, and a complete bibliography to the Ingolfiellidea provided. TANAKA, Y., H. MATSUGUCHI, T, KATAYAMA, K.L. SIMPSON & C.D. CHICHESTER, 1976. The biosynthesis of astaxanthin -16. The carotenoids in Crustacea. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 54 B, 391-393. (Not seen. Amphipoda?) THOMAS, J.D., 1976. A survey of gammarid amphipods of the Barataria Bay, Louisiana region. Contr. mar. Sci. 20, 87-100. (21 species of amphipods of which 1 genus and five species appear to be new to science) THURSTON, M., 1977. Depth distribution of Hyperia spinigera Bovallius 1889 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) and medusa in the North Atlantic Ocean, with notes on the Associations between Hyperia and coelenterates. Pp. ?-? in M. Angel (ed.). A voyage of Discovery, George Deacon 70^^ Anniversary Volume. Deep Sea Res. Suppl. (Not seen) TURQUIN, M.-J., 1976. Troglophilie et embryologie. Bull. Soc. zool. Fr. 101, 503. (Not seen) VADER, W., 1977. Habitat and distribution of Perforatella rubiginosa (Gastropoda, Pulmonata) in the freshwater tidal region of the Scheldt esturary, Belgium. Hydrobiologia 52, 23-28. (Contains some data on Orchestia cavimana). WESTERNHAGEN, H. von, 1976. Some aspects of the biology of the hyperiid amphipod Hyperoche medusanun. Helgol. wiss. Meeresunters. 28, 48-50. WESTERNHAGEN, H. von & H. ROSENTHAL, 1976. Predator-prey relationship between Pacific Herring, Clupea harengus pallasai, larvae and a predatory hyperiid amphipod Hyperoche medusarum. Fish. Bull. 74, 669-674. (A laboratoi*y study. Individual mean predation rate was found to decline with increasing predator as well as prey densities, prolonged exposure time, and the presence of alternative prey ). WILLOUGHBY, L.G. & D.W. SUTHCLIFFE, 1976. Experiments on feeding and growth of the amphipod Gammarus pidex (L.) related to its distribution in the river Duddan. Freshw. Biol. 6, 577-586 (Not seen) YOUNG, D.K., M.A. BUZAS & M.W. YOUNG, 1976. Species densities of macro- benthos associated with seagrass: A field experimental study of predation. J. mar. Res. 34, 577-592. (Not seen) LAST MINUTE ADDITIONS News from colleagues Jim LOWRY : I have had good response for Cerapus material and am getting on with the job. The New Zealand paper will be ready for submission soon and the Australian material is next on the list. No species appears to overlap between the areas. We are also getting quite a lot of work done on Zealand and Subantarctic amphipods now in my lab and should be submitting some work from that project soon. BIBLIOGRAPHY II ALOUF, N. J., 1976. Sur la presence 6' Echinogammarus du groups pugens au Liban: E. berytensis n.sp., E. tripolensis n.sp. qXE. rashiini n.sp. (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Bull. zool. Mus. Adam 5, 163-176. BULNHEIM, H.-P., 1977. Geschlechtumstimmung bei Gammarus duebeni (Crustacea, Amphipoda) unter dem Einflusz hormonaler und parasitarer Faktoren. Biol. Zbl. 9(5,61-78. BURTON, W. & J.F. FEANNAGAN, 1976. An improved river drift sampler. Fish. mar. Serv. techn. Rep. 641, 1-8. CHAMBERS, M.R., 1977. The population ecology of Gammarus tigrinus (Sexton) in the reed beds of the Tjeukenieer. Hydrobiologia 53, 155-164. CHRISTIE, N.D., 1976. A numerical analysis of the distribution of a shallow sublittoral sand macrofauna along a transect at Eemberts Bay, S. Africa. Trans. roy. Soc. S. Afr. 42, 149-172. CHRISTIE, N. D., 1976. The efficiency and effectiveness of a diver-operated suction sampler on a homogenous macrofauna. Estuar. coastal mar. Sci. 4, 687-693. DEROUX, G., A. CAMPIELO & Ph. C. BRADBURY, 1976. Ascophrys rodor (Campillo & Deroux) parasite de la crevette rose P. serratus en elevage. Rev. Trav. Inst. Peches marit. 39, 359-379. (1 have included this reference because the above parasite looks quite similar to symbionts of the amphipod Rhachotropis macropus in Norway (W.V. unpublished obs.), and similar organisms may have been observed by some of you on other amphipods. ERCOEINl, A. & F. SCAPINI, 1976. Sensitivity and response to light in the laboratory of the littoral amphipod TaliUnis saltator Montagu. Monit. zool. ital. (N.S.) 10, 293-309. (In the lab, Talitrus is predominantly photopositive, both to monochromatic and polychromatic light. When given the choice between two monochromatic lights, it prefers the brightest.) FRANKE, U., 1977. Experimentelle Untersuchungen zur Respiration von Gammarus fossarum Koch, 1835 (Crustacea, Amphipoda) in Abhangigkeit von Temperatur, Sauerstoffkonzentration und Wasserbewegung. Arch. HydrobioL, Suppl. 48, 369- 411. (A new respirometer is described, which unites the qualities of the of the closed- bottle and the flowing-water method. The relation between respiration and body size (at 12°C, Oi-saturation and v=0 cm/sec.) is expressed by the equation R(TG)=1.21 *TG^ At all 02-conc. And for v=0 cm/sec. The temperature-respiration curves are straight lines. In running water the functions are non-linear. Gammarus fossarum is a partial regulator at decreasing p O 2 , with less regulation in juveniles, and with increasing temp, and current velocity. Conclusions: the microhabitat of G. fossarum must present the following qualities. 1. Tmax=22°C (for a short time 25°C), 2. P O2min=50mm Hg, 3. V/optimal=about 5 cm/sec.; v must never be 0 cm/sec) GABLE, M.F. & R.A. CORKER, 1977. The salt marsh amphipod, Gammarus palustris Bousfield, 1969 at the northern limit of its distribution. 1. Eeology and life cycle. Estuar. coastal mar. Sci. 5, 123-134. GUEEIKSEN, B. & K.M. DERAS, 1977. A diver-operation suction sampler for fauna and rocky bottoms. Oikos 26, 246-249. HOBSON, E.S. & J.R. CHESS, 1976. Trophic interactions among fishes and zooplankters near shore at Santa Barbara island, Catafornia. Fish. Bull. 74, 567- 598. HUSMANN, S., 1976. “First international Symposium on groundwater ecology.” Introduction; sense and course of the meeting. Int. J. Speleol. 8, 3-6. HUSMANN, S., 1976. Studies on subterranean drift of stygobiont crustaceans (Niphargus, Crangonyx, Graeteriella). Int. J. Speleol. 8, 81-92. (These stygobionts show no sign of diel periodicity). FEE, W.Y., M.F. WEECH & J.A.C. NICOE, 1977. Survival of two species of amphipods in aqueous extracts of Petroleum oils. Mar. Poll. Bull. 8, 92-94. (Species tested were Gammarus mucronatiis and Amphithoe valida: they were quite sensitive to oil.) MOORE, J.W., 1977. Some aspects of the feeding biology of benthic herbivores. Hydrobiologia 53, 139-146. (“Since most methods used in collection, preservation, gut content & grazing analysis involve such a high degree of eiTor, many of our concepts regarding the nutritional importance of different foods, selective feeding and the magnitude of herbivorous grazing may be largely misleading”.) MOORE, J.W., 1977. Importance of algae in the diet of subarctic populations of Gammarus lacustris and Pontoporeia affmis. Can. J. Zool. 55, 637-641. NOTONI, M. & A. HAG STROM, 1974. Effects of oils on Baltic littoral community, as studied in an outdoor model test system. NBS spec. Publ. 409, 251-254. NOTONI, M., B. NAGELL, A. HAGSTROM & O. GRAHN, 1977. An outdoor model simulating a Baltic Sea littoral ecosystem. Oikos 28, 2-9. RUTZLER, K., 1976. Ecology of Tunisian commercial sponges. Tethys 7 (1975), 249-264. (with data on symbiotic crustaceans) SCHRIEVER, G., 1975. In situ-Beobachtungen an Hyperia galba Montagu (Amphipoda, Hyperidea) in der westlicher Ostsee. Kieler Meeresf 31, 1 07- 1 10. SELEEM, E., J.-P. HENRY & G. MAGNIEZ, 1976. Utilisation du microscope electronique a balayage dans Letude systematique des Crustaces Peracarides. Actes 97. Congr. natn. Soc. savantes. (Nantes 1972), Sciences 3, 711-720. (Amphipod data mainly on Orchestia spp.) SIMONETTA, A.M., 1976. Remarks on the origin of the Arthropoda. Toscana Sci. nat. Mem. B 82, 1 12-134. Atti Soc. VOSHELL, J.R. & G.M. SIMMONS, 1977. An evaluation of artificial substrates for sampling macrobenthos in reservoirs. Hydrobiologia 53, 257-269. BIOGRAPHY 111 ANKAR, S., 1976. Final report from the benthic macrofauna group. Baltic Sea Expert Meeting on intercalibration of biological and chemical methods, Askd, June 8-15, 1974. Contr. Asko Lab. Univ. Sthlm. 12, 1-27. ANKAR, S., 1977. The soft bottom ecosystem of the northern Baltic proper with special references to the macrofauna. Contr. Asko lab. Univ. Sthlm. 19, 1-62. ARIMOTO, 1., 1976. Occurrence of Caprella (C.) laevis (Schurin) on the shallow bottom of northeastern Hokkaido. Physiol. Ecol. Japan 17, 445-448. ARIMOTO, 1., 1976. Record of Caprella laevis (Schurin) (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Hokkaido, Japan. Publ. Seto mar. biol. Tab. 23, 51-56. BYNUM, K.H. & R. S. FOX, 1977. New and noteworthy amphipod crustaceans from North Carolina, USA. Chesapeake Sci. 18, 1-33. (New taxa; Gammanis jenneri (near G. duebeni), Maera williamsi, M caroliniana, Stenothoe georgiana, Lembos unicornis, and Microdeutopus myersi. Descriptions are also given of Protohaustorius cf. deichmannae and Atylus cf minikoi, while Stenothoe minuta is refigured). CHANG, B.D. & C.D. LEVINGS, 1976. Laboratoiy experiments on the effects of ocean dumping on benthic invertebrates 1. Choice tests with solid wastes. Fish. mar. Seiw, Res. Developm, Div., tech Rept. Can. 637, 4pp (Not seen. Deals with i.a. Corophium salmonis) CHINCHILLA, M. & F.A. COMIN, 1977. (A contribution to the study of the crustaceans of the Ebre delta.) Treballs Inst. Catalana Hist. nat. 8, 119-144. (In Catalonian, with English summaiy. Fort}^-six species, among 12 amphipods, are listed and amply illustrated with original figures. The amphipods dealt with are Gammanis aequicaiida, Echinogammarus pacaiidi, Elasmopus rapax, Leptocheirus pilosus, Microdeutopus gryllotalpa, Pleonexes gammaroides, Corophium insidiosum, C. acutiim, C. volutator, Erichthoniiis brasiliensis, E. difformis and Phtisica marina). CZECZUGA, B., 1976. Carotenoids content in some Crustaceans from the Baltic Sea. Bull. Acad. pol. Sci., Cl. 11, Ser. Sci. biol. 24, 349-353 (Not seen). DAGG, M.J., 1976. Complete carbon and nitrogen budgets for the carnivorous amphipod, Calliopius laevisculus (Kroyer). Int. Rev. ges. Hydrobiol. 61, 297- 357. DIELEMAN, J. & S. PINKSTER. 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The regulation of fish parasite populations. Pp 63-109 in “Regulation of parasite populations”. Academic Press. N.Y. (With data on acanthocephalan parasites in fresh-water Gammarus) KENNEDY, C. R. & A. RUMPUS, 1977. Eong-term changes in the size of the Pomphorhynchus laevis (Acantocephala) population in the river Avon. J. Fish. Biol. 10, 35-42. (Gammanis pulex is the intermediate host). MADEN, E.P. & G.R. HARBISON, 1977. The association of Amphipoda Hyperiidea with gelatinous zooplankton. 1 . Associations with Salpidae. Deep-Sea Res. 24, 449-463. MOORE, J.W., 1976. The proximate and fatty acid composition of some estuarine crustaceans. Est. coast, mar. Sci. 4, 215-224. (i.a. Gammarus salinus, and Orchestia gammarellus). ORTIZ TOUZET, M., 1976. The crustacean amphipod Mallacoota carausui from the Cuban waters. Rev. roum. Biol., Bucarest 21, 93-95. (Not seen) ORZECHOWSKI, B., 1974. 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(In Russian, not seen: translated in Sov. J. mar. Biol. 7, 246-254. The new genus Paracalliopiella is erected for Leptamphopus litoralis and Calliopiella (?) pratti) VANDER WAL, J., 1977. Relation between Nipigon Bay benthic macroinvertebrates and selected aspects of their habitat. J. Fish. Res. Bd. Can. 34, 824-829. (With many data on Pontoporeia affinis). WING, B.E. & N. BARR, 1977. Midwater invertebrates from the southeastern Chukchi Sea: species and abundance in catches incidentl to mid-water trawling survey of fishes, September-October 1970. NOAA teclm. Rep. NMFS SSRF. 710, 1-43. (Forty spp. of Amph. Are listed on p. 3-4 (midwater trawl) and 5 (otter trawl)). BIBEIOGRAPHY IV ANDRES, H.G., 1977. Gammaridea (Crustacea, Amphipoda) aus dem Iberischen Tiefseebecken. Auswertung des Material der Fahrten 3 und 15 von F.S. "Meteor”. Meteor Forsch. -Ergebn. D 25, 54-67 (Descriptions and illustrations of Bathyceradocus iberiensis n.sp., Paracallisoma platepistomum n.sp. Parandeniexis cf. mirabilis and Parargissa galatheae. Paracallisoma alberti and P. caecum are not synonymous, in the authors opinion.) BAJCHOROV, V.M. & V.P. SEMENCHENKO, 1977. (Size-weight characteristics and caloric value of Pontoporeia affinis Lindstr. from different habitats) Gidrobiol. Zh. 13 (2), 70-73. (In Russian, not seen) BEEMSTER, P. & D. de ZWART, 1977. Talorchestia frisiae Klein, 1969: phase juvenile de T. deshayesii (Audounin, 1826). Bull. zool. Mus. Univ. A'dam 6, 39- 44. CABIOCH, L. & C. RODRIGUEZ BABIO, 1975. Sur deux especes d'amphipodes nouvelles pour la faune marine de Roscoff. Trav. Stat. biol. Roscoff (N.S.) 22, 15-16. {Lepidepecreum longicorne 'dx\di Photis longicaudata). CROKER, R.A. & M.F. GABEE, 1977. Geographic variation in western Atlantic populations of Gammarus oceanicus SegerstrMe (TVnphipoda). Crustaceana 32, 55-76. EEKAIM, B., 1976. Bionomie et ecologie du peuplements des substrats meubles d'un estuarie atlantique marocain: f estuarie du Bou Regreg. 1. 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N.Z. 7, 51-57. (Intermediate host is Paracalliops fluviatilis) IVERSEN, T.M. & J. JESSEN, 1977. Life-cycle, drift and production of Gammarus pulex L. (Amphipoda) in a Danish spring. Freshw. Biol. 7, 287-296. KARAMAN, G.S., 1976. Contribution to the knowledge of the Amphipoda 72. Four new Niphargus species from Italy, N. diipliis, N. stygocharis, N. italicus, N. ruffoi and N. canui (Gammaridae). Vie Milieu 26 C, 21-50. LAUBITZ, D.R., 1977. A revision of the genera Dulichia Kroyer and Paradulichia Boeck (Amphipoda, Podoceridae). Can. J. Zool. 55, 942-982 {Dulichia s.l. is divided into 3 genera, Dulichia s.s, (Type D. spinosissima, 5 species i.a. D. wolffl n.sp.), Dulichiopsis n. gen. (type Dulichia nordlandica, 6 species, i.a. D. barnardi n.sp.) and Dyopedos Bate, 1857 (type D. porrectus, 9 species). Paradulichia spinifera is synonymized with P. typical, while P. secunda is retained as a doubtful species). MACQUART-MOULIN, C., 1976, Rythmes d'activite persistants chez les Peracarides du planlcton nocturne de Mediterranee (Amphipodes, Isopodes). Mar. Behav. Physiol. 4, 1-15. (Not seen, unfortunately). MAYER, F.L., P.M. MEHRLE & H.O. SANDERS, 1977. Residue dynamics and biological effects of polychlorinated bisphenyls in aquatic organisms. Arch. environm. Contam. Toxicl. 5, 501-511. (Deals with i.a. Gammarus fasciatus and G. pseudolimnaeus). NILSSON, L.M. & C. OTTO, 1977, Effects of population density and of presence of Gammarus pulex L. (Amphipoda) on the growth in larvae of Potamophylax cingidatus Steph. (Trichoptera). Hydrobiologia 54, 109-1 12. OSEID, D.M., 1977. Control of fungus growth on fish eggs hy As ellus militaris and Gammarus pseudolimnaeus. Trans. Am. Fish. Soc. 106, 192-195. PARADIS, M. & R.G. ACKMAN, 1976. Localization of a marine source of oss chain-length fatty acids. 1. The amphipod Pontoporeia femorata (Kroyer). Lipids 11, 863-870. PARADIS, M. & R.G. ACKMAN, 1976. Localization of a marine source of odd chain-length fatt>^ acids. 2. Seasonal propagation of odd chain.lenth monoethylenic fatty acids in a marine food chain. Lipids 11, 871-876. RODGERS, D.W. & S.U. QADRI, 1977. Seasonal variations in calorific values of some littoral benthic invertebrates of the Ottawa River, Ontario. Can. J. Zool. 55, 881-884. (i.a. Gammarus fasciatiis and Hyalella azteca). SHYAMASUNDARI, K. & K. HANUMANTHA RAO, 1976. Studies on the Alimentary canal of amphipods: Excretory caeca. Crustaceana 31, 190-192. (Not seen) STEPHENSON, W. & B.M. CAMPBELL, 1977. The macrobenthos of Serpentine Creek. Mem. Queensl. Mus. 18, 75-93. (“The outstanding features of the present data are the large number of amphipod species and the absence of echinoderms and tunicates”). STROOBANTS, G., 1976. Description nouvelle d'Aroui setosus Chevreux 1910 (Crustacea Amphipoda) et comoaraison de revolution morphologique dQsAroui setosus et des Scopelocheirus hopei. Boll. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Verona 3, 239- 268. VINOGRADOV, G.A., 1976. (Osmotic regulation of some glacial-relict crustaceans in connection with their ecology and origin). Explor. Fauna Seas 17 (25). 167-? (In Russian, not seen). WILLIAMS, N.D. & N.E. WILLIAMS, 1976. Aspects of the ecology of the faunas of some brackish-water pools on the St. Lawrence north shore. Can. Field-Nat. 90, 410-415. (Not seen) LEUNG, YUK MAAN, 1976. Life cycle of Cyamus scammoni (Amphipoda; Cyamidae), ectoparasite of Gray Whale, with a remark on the associated species. Sci. Rept. Whales Res. Inst. 28, 1 53-160. (Not seen). ZHANG WEI-QUAN, 1974. (A new species of the genus Corophium from the southern coast of Shantung peninsula. North China (C. sinense sp.n.) Stud. mar. Sinica 1974 (9), 139 - ? (In Chinese, English summary. Not seen) ZIMMERMAN, R.J., R.A. GIBSON & J.B. HARRINGTON, 1976. Gammaridean tB amphipod feeding strategies in a Florida sea grass. Abstr. 12 Meeting Assoc. Isl. Lab. Caribbean, 62 only. (Not seen). LAST SECOND ADDITIONS New subscriber Dr. K. K. SASIDHARAN Research Scholar Dept of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries Trivandrum 7 Kerala India Dr. Sasidhran is working on a marine Gammaridean Amphipoda, and envisages a taxonomic survey of marine Gammaridean Amphipoda along the southern coast of India. Change of address Dr. Mai'ion J. van PvIAREN c/o Lhiiversite CL Bernard (Eyon I) Depaitement de Biologic Animale et Zoologie F 69 Villeurbanne France A NEW SOCIETY FOR MARINE BIOEOGISTS PORCUPINE A Society to promote interest in the ecology and distribution of marine fauna and flora in the N E Atlantic. Its name is derived from the surveying vessel “Porcupine” engaged in 1869 and 1870 on scientific expeditions in the N E Atlantic and Mediterranean, and which gave its name to the Porcupine Bank west of Ireland. BIOGRAPHY V ..EAEEY, M.C., 1977. Experimental cropping of lakes. 4. Benthic communities. Fish. mar. Sci. techn. Rep. (711), 1-48. (Pontoporeia affmis and Hyalella Azteca are among the dominant benthic animals in the lakes concerned). KAIM-MAEKA, R.A., 1976. Revision des Haploops (Crustacea, Amphipoda) de Mediterranee. Boll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Verona J, 269-308. (Three spp., viz. H. proxima, H. dellavallei, and H. nirae n.sp.) KAMIHIRA, Y., 1977. A new species of sandburrowing marine amphipods from Hokkaido, Japan. Bull. Fac. Fish. Hokkaido Univ. 28, 1-5, Pis 1-5. {Haustorioides Japonicas n.sp.) McCALL, P.L., 1977. Community patterns and adaptive strategies of the infaunal benthos of Long Island Sound. J. mar. Res. 35, 221-266. MYERS, A. A., 1976. Studies on the genus Lembos Bate. 4. L. megacheir (Sars), L. borealis sp. nov., L. hirsiitipes Stebbing, L. karamani sp. nov., L. setimerus sp. nov. Boll. Mus. Civ. Nat. Verona 3, 445-477. PERCY, J.A., 1977. Responses of arctic marine benthic crustaceans to sediments contaminated with crude oil. Environ. Pollut. 13, 1-10. {Onisimus affinis overwhelmingly selected clean rather than oil-contaminated sediments, while Corophium clarencence did not. Many other interesting data). RUFFO, S. & U. SCHIECKE, 1976. (A new Bogidiella from Creta (Amphipoda, Gammaridae), Bogidiella minotaunis n.sp. Boll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Verona 3, 147-155. (In Italian, with German summaiy) SCHIECKE, U., 1976. Fine marine Ingolfiella (Amphipoda: Ingolfiellidae) im Golf von Neapel: Ingolfiella ischitana n.sp. Boll. Mus. Civ. Nat. Verona 3, 413-420. SCHIECKE, U., 1976. Fine zweite Art der GdXiwngAmhithopsis Boeck (Amphipoda): A. depressa n.sp. aus dem Golf von Neapel (Italien). Boll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Verona 3, 421-434. (Contains also additional data on A. longicaudata) SCHIECKE, U., 1976. Xenodice macrophthalma n.sp. (Amphipoda: Podoceridae) from the bay of Naples, Italy) with correction of the genus diagnosis. Boll. Mus. Civ. St. Nat. Verona 3, 435-443.