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Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones

Harvestmen: The Biology of Opiliones


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This is the first comprehensive treatment of a major order of arachnids featuring more than 6,000 species worldwide, familiar in North America as daddy-longlegs but known scientifically as the Opiliones, or harvestmen. The 25 authors provide a broad taxonomic and ecological background for understanding this major arachnid group.

Table of Contents:
What Are Harvestmen? Glauco Machado, Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha, and Gonzalo Giribet 2 Morphology and Functioral Anatormyai Jeffrey W Shultz and Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha 3 Phylogeny and Biogeography 62 Gonzalo Giribet and Adriano B Kury 4 Taxonomy 88 Ricardo Pinto-da-Rocha and Gonzalo Giibet Paleontology 247 Jason A. Dunlop 6 Cytogenetics 266 Nobuo Tsurusaki Ecology :280 David J. Curtis and Glauco Machado 8 Diet and Foraging 309 Luis E. Acosta and Glauco Machado 9 Natural Enemies 339 James C. Cokendolpher and Plamen G Mitov 10 Defense Mechanisms 374 Pedro Gnaspini and Marcos R. Hara 11 Socia Behavior 400 Glauco Machado and Rogellio Macias-Ord6oez 12 Reproduction 414 Glauco Machado and Rogelio Macias-Ord6oez 13 Development 455 Pedro Gnaspini 14 Ecophysiology 473 Flavio H Santos 15 Methods and Techniques of Study 48)

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Harvestmen covers virtually every aspect of harvestman biology... Inevitably, the longest chapter is on taxonomy, dealing with the disturbing features of the families and subfamilies in the four major Opiliones suborders. This is the first major revision of the order in over fifty years, and it is a tour de force... This is a book that will be prized by many naturalists, both amateur and professional. For anyone with even a passing interest in harvestmen, it will be required reading for decades to come. -- Matthew Cobb Times Literary Supplement A summary volume exceeding those of other arachnid orders in breadth and completeness... The landmark chapter on taxonomy will be particularly welcome to workers considering studying these animals. For the first time, the family level diversity of this group is very clearly summarized, with keys, diagnostic characters, etymology, phylogenetic relationships, and plentiful scanning electron micrographs and illustrations, on a worldwide basis... The text presents enough unanswered questions to provide an army of graduate students with research topics. By illuminating what makes Opiliones a distinctive taxon, the book sheds much light on the evolution and biology of arachnids as a whole, and anyone with an interest in Arachnida should acquire this work. -- Michael L. Draney Quarterly Review of Biology This will be a mandatory classic for arachnologists, zoologists, and general biologists. -- Jonathan A. Coddington, Smithsonian Institution Considering that...no single volume addressing [Opilione] biology has ever been written, this book is long overdue and will fill a notorious gap in the arachnological literature. There is no question that it will become a landmark reference, much like Weygoldt on pseudoscorpions, Polis on scorpions, and Punzo on solifuges, ultimately stimulating a resurgence in research on this diverse group of organisms. -- Lorenzo Prendini, Assistant Curator: Arachnids and Myriapods, American Museum of Natural History


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780674276833
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Harvard University Press
  • Edition: Digital original
  • No of Pages: 608
  • ISBN-10: 0674276833
  • Publisher Date: 28 Feb 2007
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Biology of Opiliones


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