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The fine structure of the eyes of some bristly millipedes (Penicillata, Diplopoda): additional support for the homology of mandibulate ommatidia.
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.
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.
Millipedes are terrestrial uniramian antennate and mandibulate arthropods whose bodies are made up of a chain of numerous segments. The appendages of the first body segment just behing the head (collum) are absent.
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.
In an extensive study on endangered biotopes in the State of Saxony-Anhalt/Eastern Germany, the authors studied the millipede fauna of 50 dry habitats, belonging to 5 types of biotopes from 1995 to 1998 using pitfall traps.