From daemon Tue Mar 4 12:46:03 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA20455 Message-Id: <199703042046.MAA20455@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 11:55:27 -0600 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Sam James Subject: Re: annelid bioluminescence At 04:14 PM 2/24/97 -0500, you wrote: I just wanted to correct some spelling in the following list, so folks won't get lost looking for non-existent taxa. >There are many bioluminescent polychaetes which I won't attempt to list. >Among the oligochaetes there are only two families with luminescent >genera, the Lumbricidae with Eisenia as the only known BL genus and the >Megascolecidae which includes Digaster, Diplocardia, Diplotrema, >Eutyphoeus, Fletcherodrilus, Lampito, Megascolex, Microscolex >(=Eodrillus ******* EODRILUS*****), Octochaetus, Parachilota, Ponodrilus (*****PONTODRILUS ****), Ramiella and >Spenceriella. Pontodrilus is found in marine beaches above the high water mark, usually quiet areas (i.e. not on beaches with heavy surf) in/under accumulations of organic debris, warm temperate to tropical, global. The other species are all from "normal" terrestrial soils. Microscolex has a bit of a complicated nomenclatural history, as does "Eodrilus" so be careful in calling anything Eodrilus. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~ Sam James ~ ~ Dept. of Biology ~ ~ Maharishi Univ. of Mgmt. ~ ~ Fairfield, IA 52557 ~ ~ sjames@mum.edu ~ ~ 515-472-1146 ~ ~ Systematics and Ecology ~ ~ of Earthworms ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ From daemon Tue Mar 4 12:46:12 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id MAA20476 Message-Id: <199703042046.MAA20476@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: Department of Zoology Invertebrate MSU From: "Ilya E. Ivanov" Date: Tue, 4 Mar 97 19:50:50 +0300 Subject: address of Dr.Grothe Dear anneliders, I would greatly appreciate having mail or e-mail address of Dr. Grothe, C. who published several papers about endocrinology and neurosecretory of some polychaetes. Her address known for me is the following: Dr. Claudia Grothe Institut fur Anatomie und Zellbiologie, Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Robert-Koch-Str. 6, D-3550 Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany But it's not correct now, as you can see. Thank you in advance. Ilya E. Ivanov, Ph.D.student Department of Invertebrate Zoology Biological Faculty, Moscow State University Vorobjovy Gory, Moscow, 119899, Russia e-mail: Ivanov@1.inv.bio.msu.ru -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ From daemon Tue Mar 4 21:45:06 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA23128 Message-Id: <199703050545.VAA23128@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 18:24:59 +1100 Subject: Dr. Th. Mortensen's expeditions 1899-1930 "the [Samoan] natives ... regarded the scientific members of the expedition as hopeless, but harmless imbeciles engaged in fruitless and foolish tasks" -- A G Mayor So what's new? (Just thought I'd share that with you. :-)) Hello folks, I have in front of me a copy of a typescript: "Dr. Th. Mortensen's expeditions 1899-1930: list of stations." It is in English, 34 pages (one side), and at the back are four outline handwritten maps. No author's name, no date. I am guessing the original might date from the 50's or 60's. Has anyone come across this before? I'd like to know more about the provenance (and authority) of this item. And is there a better list (separately published) of Mortensen's localities outside of the papers by specialists? I confess I have not looked beyond Augener's 2 NZ papers (Pacific expedition) as yet. (Perhaps there is a table in one of the others in Videnska ... But which?) Thanks for any ideas. Geoff -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ From daemon Wed Mar 5 13:48:00 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA18385 Message-Id: <199703052148.NAA18385@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Sabine Cochrane Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Subject: seeking Euchone limnicola Date: Wed, 5 Mar 1997 14:11:23 +0100 Dear fellow worm enthusiasts, Has anyone come across Euchone limnicola Reish 1960 (Sabellidae: Sabellinae)? The species is reputed to be an estuarine form, and is often found in high densities near harbours. It seems that it is being spread (ballast water again?) over considerable distances. Our current findings report it from Japan, Australia, UK and possibly also northern France and Germany, as well as the type locality, California. The most striking feature of E. limnicola is the peculiar anal 'depression' (Hartman's subsequent redescription refers to it as an anal 'groove'). Lateral wings are absent, and the anterior margin is bordered by a kind of dermal ridge, or in some cases almost a flap. The 'depression' is not therefore in accordance with the generic diagnosis. Reish 1960 does not show the feature, but Hartman subsequently illustrates it in Allan Hancock Pac. Exp. vol 19:203-204, pl.6, figs 7-10. I would gladly fax this to anyone who is not familiar with the species. I would very much like to learn of other records of E.limnicola. Also, has anyone found other Euchone specimens with anomalous anal depressions? Any comments greatly appreciated. Thanking you for your help, Sabine ************************************************************************ Sabine Cochrane Akvaplan-niva AS Tlf: +47 77 68 52 80 9005 Tromsoe Fax:+47 77 68 05 09 Norway e-mail: Sabine.Cochrane@akvaplan.niva.no ************************************************************************ -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Wed Mar 5 22:02:06 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA25982 Message-Id: <199703060602.WAA25982@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Wed, 05 Mar 1997 19:12:28 -0900 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Aaron Baldwin Subject: Re: seeking Euchone limnicola Dear Sabine, I worked on a project this summer sorting polychaete samples from Auke Bay, Alaska. In those samples we found two species of Euchone that were tentatively identified as Euchone analis and Euchone sp. (I can't remember the name we found!, maybe E incolor? My notebook is in the lab) E. analis has an anal groove so large that in specimens without radioles it took a moment to tell which end was which. The groove was as big as the collar! The other species had a smaller groove, to the third or fourth posterior setiger (counting from the back). If you like, I could e-mail a photo of E. analis. I have jpegs of all of our summer specimens. Take care- Aaron Aaron Baldwin -- ANNELIDA Discuss = annelida@net.bio.net = talk to all members Server = biosci-server@net.bio.net = un/subscribes Archives = http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ Resources = http://www.keil.ukans.edu/~worms/annelid.html -- From daemon Thu Mar 6 21:27:11 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id VAA04802 Message-Id: <199703070527.VAA04802@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA Date: Fri, 7 Mar 1997 18:22:15 +1100 Subject: Re: Dr. Th. Mortensen's expeditions 1899-1930 The indications are there is no _published_ overall list of Mortensen Stations. Also, I haven't examined all the Pacific expedition reprints, but only in the Mollusca paper (bd.77) does an author list the relevant NZ stations. Some of Mortensen's 'Expeditions' were solo "can I come along on your ship?" sort of adventures, so documentation might be scanty. (The story goes that luckily for him he was committed elsewhere and couldn't travel on the F.I.S. 'Endeavour' from Australia to Macquarie in 1914 - it sank with all hands.) Thanks to those who pointed to various Z.M.U. Copenhagen people for further elucidation, and most especially to Mary Petersen for the detail below. Here is Mary's explanation of the version ZMUC has:- "Our set is mimeographed and filed under the different smaller expeditions. I asked Torben Wolff if he knew the origin of the lists, and he said that the late Dr.phil. Fritz Jensenius Madsen, our former Curator of Echinoderms, had had the lists done from Mortensen's handwritten diaries - expedition journals. ... A number of years ago the 2nd Department ([mainly] marine invertebrates) decided to collect all station lists for anything marine that was collected by people from the museum and organize the lists so that it was possible to find the necessary information easily - before that it was sometimes a bit difficult. Where station lists have been published, a copy of this is slipped into a plastic pocket in a looseleaf notebook, in other cases photocopies of the originals are used. Most of the lists are in English, or if in Danish, usually with translations of the most important terms. Besides Mortensen's, expeditions covered include Galathea, Atlantide, Ingolf, Dana (I think part of these are in the Fish Library) and a large number of others, many of which to Greenland, some to Iceland and the Faroes. The index is arranged so that one can look things up under locality, collector, expedition and year. Mortensen's: (I think these first one are numbered 49, 50, 51 and 52) pp. 1-5 + map of Gulf of Siam on p. 31 = The Siam-Expedition 1/1o.1899-1/6.19oo, starting with plankton samples, continuing with various types of benthic samples. There is a ref. to "Th. Mortensen 19o2 - Kgl. Danske Vid. Selsk. Skr. (6) 10 p. 155-157. - Map of the area: p.218" pp. 6-8 + map of Danish West Indies on p. 31 = "Dr. Phil. Th. Mortensen's Expedition to the Danish West Indies 19o5 - 19o6". In the text list of stations, Loango is spelled without the "v" p. 9 = "...Bergen-Trondhjem Expedition 1911" (no map) pp. 10-21 + map 34 (Mauritius at top, Sanct Helena at bottom) = "... Pacific-Expedition 1913 - 1916." The rest of the 34 pages, i.e., pp. 22-30 + map on p. 33 - were in another notebook, as No. 42: pp. 22-30, maps 33+34 "The Java-South Africa Expedition 1929-193o (Java - Mauritius - South Africa - St. Helena - Canary Isl.) The last thing we have about Mortensen's expeditions is the published station list for the Danish Expedition to the Kei Islands in 1922 (= no. 43), from Videnskabelige Meddelelser fra Dansk Naturhistorisk Forening 76: 55-99, plates I-III (= 2 maps of Kei Islands and Banda Sea + 1 map of "Java-Sea and Sunda-Strait", with lots of stations). Date of publication of station list is 1923, but this is not stated on reprint, but has been added by hand.. After p. 90, there are glued 2 typed pages with additional stations and one handwritten (by Fritz) page with some more notes. I guess that takes care of all of Mortensen's expeditions. Material from these collections would be here [ZMUC] unless it was sent out for working up and not returned." -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ From daemon Mon Mar 17 22:31:04 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id WAA26839 Message-Id: <199703180631.WAA26839@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Geoff Read" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Organization: NIWA Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:22:08 +1100 Subject: Re: Marenzelleria collection Dr. Ralf Bastrop wrote: > We are studying the biological invasion of North Sea and Baltic coastal > waters by polychaetes of the genus MARENZELLERIA. [...] > The following list contains synonyms of spionids of the genus > MARENZELLERIA under which specimens that would be of interest to us may > have been deposited in your museum collections or in other sources that > you know of. > > MARENZELLERIA WIRENI [...] > MARENZELLERIA VIRIDIS [...] > MARENZELLERIA JONESI > > SCOLECOLEPIDES BENHAMI Ehlers, 1907 (New Zealand) A very interesting project. Can I point out that Scolecolepides is not actually a synonym of Marenzelleria. The four (I think) Scolecolepides species from NZ, Australia, and Argentina would be an uncomfortable fit into Marenzelleria, although the relationship might be quite close. I haven't read many of the papers. Are the Marenzelleria spp. an ecological problem in any way in the Baltic & North Sea to merit the flood of interest -- or is it just the shock of the new? What are they doing to the other fauna? Anyone looking at that? (Please post any observations to the list.) :-) -- Geoff Read -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ From daemon Tue Mar 18 02:01:06 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id CAA17819 Message-Id: <199703181001.CAA17819@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net From: "Helmut Zibrowius" Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Tue, 18 Mar 97 08:02:08 MST Subject: Re: Marenzelleria collection On Tue, 18 Mar 1997 18:22:08 +1100, Geoff Read wrote: >Are the Marenzelleria spp. an >ecological problem in any way in the Baltic & North Sea to merit the >flood of interest -- or is it just the shock of the new? One point is: at least in the Baltic Sea there are few other polychaetes around! ----------------------------------- Helmut ZIBROWIUS (Centre d'Oceanologie de Marseille) Station Marine d'Endoume Rue Batterie des Lions 13007 Marseille / France E-MAIL: hzibrowi@com.univ-mrs.fr TEL: within France 0491041624 from abroad +33 491041624 FAX: within France 0491041635 from abroad +33 491041635 --------------------------------------------------------- From daemon Tue Mar 18 13:54:43 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA21569 Message-Id: <199703182154.NAA21569@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 15:39:29 +0000 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Mike Subject: Re: Marenzelleria collection In message Geoff Read writes >Dr. Ralf Bastrop wrote: > >> We are studying the biological invasion of North Sea and Baltic coastal >> waters by polychaetes of the genus MARENZELLERIA. [...] >> The following list contains synonyms of spionids of the genus >> MARENZELLERIA under which specimens that would be of interest to us may >> have been deposited in your museum collections or in other sources that >> you know of. I seem to have missed Ralf's original post. If Ralph contacts me I think I can help with the supply of Marenzellaria material from the Humber and NE England. I also have access to historical data (including the first recordings of the beast in the Humber). -- Mike Bailey. -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ From daemon Wed Mar 19 13:55:56 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA19564 Message-Id: <199703192155.NAA19564@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 12:11:22 +0000 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Rafa Sarda Subject: Re: Marenzelleria collection Dear Polychaete people: Many new species have in recent decades been introduced into the Baltic Sea area, most likely via transport in ship ballast water (See Essink, 1988 in Proceedings of the Symposium on the Ecology of the North Sea). One of these organisms is the estuarine polychaete Marenzelleria viridis. The presence of aloctone species in an area can have great implications on the local communities (many cases can be outlined, the algae Caulerpa taxifolia in Western Mediterranean, the Ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Black Sea, ...). Ecological effects of anthropogenic activities can led to long-term alterations of marine systems. Changes associated to the introduction of a new species in one particular habitat can have ecological important implications and this is something that should be carefully followed. Concerning the case recently outlined in this electronic list, I had the opportunity to work in the past with field populations of Marenzelleria viridis in Southern New England (USA) (see J. mar. biol. Ass. U.K., 1995. 75, 725-738). In this area, the Production estimates and P/B of this species was considerably high and it did not match with indirect estimates of production based on similar polychaete fauna. We believed that M. viridis in favorable conditions can behave as an opportunistic species capable of rapid reproduction and growth. In our area, during the winter of 1987, the sediments of the marsh were frozen for 45 days and the fauna living in the upper centimeters of the sediment was killed. M. viridis is a cold water spawner and it was the first polychaete to settle after thawing, exploiting the available and defaunated sediments. Then, in May and June the sediments contained great quantities of juveniles of M. viridis and the presence of other polychaetes as C. capitata or N. arenaceodonta was low. In 1988, marsh sediments were frozen only during few days, the recruitment of M. viridis was six times lower and this year the presence of C. capitata and N. arenaceodonta was much higher. We do not known if the high recruitment of M. viridis was as a consequence of a good year for the species or if it was dependent on the defaunated sediments, but the rapid growth of M. viridis this year yield this high production values, and competitive interactions with the remaining fauna. I have been following the work of the Baltic researchers, Essink pointed out the effects of M. viridis on populations of N. diversicolor. Papers have been published by Bochert (larval ecology & reproduction), Bastrup (genetics) and Atkins et al, and Zettler & Bick (population dynamics) among others. I think that the invasive case of M. viridis in the Baltic Sea should be followed closely and it is a good example for polychaete people to learn about the biotic mechanisms between estuarine species. Best regards from Blanes (Catalunya, Spain) RAFAEL SARDA -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/ From daemon Mon Mar 31 13:49:01 1997 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by net.bio.net (8.6.12/8.6.6) id NAA29185 Message-Id: <199703312149.NAA29185@net.bio.net> To: annelida@net.bio.net Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 13:42:27 +0100 Reply-To: annelida@net.bio.net From: Mike Perkin <106442.1737@compuserve.com> Organization: Earlybird Worms Ltd Subject: Oligochaeta culture collection I would be obliged if anyone could advise me of the existence and scope of any commercially available Oligochaete collections, particularly European Lumbricids. Thanks in anticipation Mike Perkin -- VENI, VIDI, VERMI. ------------------- Mike Perkin <106442.1737@compuserve.com> -- ANNELIDA LIST Server address = biosci-server@net.bio.net (un/subscribes) Discussion address = annelida@net.bio.net (talk to all members) List archives = URL:http://www.bio.net:80/hypermail/ANNELIDA/