The Myriapoda

The Myriapoda is the single major group never treated in Pierre-Paul Grass矇's Trait矇 de Zoologie, the largest zoological treatise in the second half of the 20th century. Indeed the most recent comprehensive treatment of centipedes and millipedes dates to 1926. A team of European biologists, most of them German, fill the gap in a two-volume reference. This first volume covers the order Chilopoda, the centipedes, discussing such aspects as general morphology, integument and associated organs such as solitary epidermal glands and bioluminescence, musculature and locomotion, the excretory system including the maxillary organ of the Notostigmophora and nephrocytes, sense organs, reproduction, ecology, distribution, fossil history, and taxonomy. The related arthropods Symphyla and Pauropoda are also considered. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)