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The authors investigated the eyes of adult Phryssonotus platycephalus (Synxenidae) and Polyxenus lagurus (Polyxenidae) by light and electron microscopy.
The authors examined the effect of calcareous road dust on land snails (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) and millipedes (Diplopoda) on forested ridge tops with naturally acidic soils.
Characteristics Millipedes are a diverse group of animals and are not well studied in Australia and of the 15 orders of millipedes in the world only 9 have been recorded in Australia.
The diplopods and the chilopods are two relatively small classes belonging to the largest phylum on Earth. Phylum Arthropoda contains a wide array of animals from spiders to crustaceans to every other bug, mite, or tick on the planet.
Contents: Foreword - by R.D. Kime - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Millipede recording in Britain and Ireland - by P.T. Harding - Check list - Distribution maps and species accounts - Alien Species - Data analysis - Conservation - Future recording - Appendices - 1.
A review is given of the diplopod fauna of Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, with special reference to that of the periodically inundated areas of the Pantanal.