From iocwestpac7 from gmail.com Mon Dec 3 20:32:24 2007 From: iocwestpac7 from gmail.com (IOC WESTPAC) Date: Tue Dec 4 01:27:53 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Symposium announcement - call for papers Message-ID: <424dabc20712031732y6b8bd197o37a7dde1fadab2c3@mail.gmail.com> Dear All, Apologies for cross-postings. This is a call for papers and registration for the 7th IOC/WESTPAC Symposium. Details are as follows: IOC/WESTPAC 7th International Scientific Symposium - Natural Hazards and Changing Marine Environment in the Western Pacific Date: 21-25 May 2008 Venue: Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia Abstract Deadline: 28 February 2008 Sponsors: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (UNESCO) (Sub- Commission for the Western Pacific) Malaysian Ministry of Science. Technology and Innovation (MOSTI) Sub-themes: - The linkage between Western Pacific and Climate Change - Marine Environmental Modeling and Data Management - Coastal Processes and Managements in the Western Pacific - Marine Ecosystem Health and Assessments The Symposium will consist of plenary lectures by renowned scientists, invited papers, and voluntary oral and poster presentations. Proposals are invited for post-symposium programmes in the form of discussion on special topics, workshops and related activities. For details of the symposium, please go to: < http://www.ums.edu.my/conferences/index.php?mod=Publication&action=homeaccess&conf=IOCWESTPAC7 > Please send this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thank you. Pushpa Palaniappan and Muhammad Ali Syed Hussein c/o Advertising and Promotion Committee Borneo Marine Research Institute Universiti Malaysia Sabah -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/annelida/attachments/20071204/d9653405/attachment.html From dimitricostacg from gmail.com Tue Dec 4 08:29:02 2007 From: dimitricostacg from gmail.com (=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dim=EDtri_de_Ara=FAjo_Costa?=) Date: Tue Dec 4 13:56:31 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Articles on Hesione Message-ID: <2c3e659f0712040529w65ee9998n9e14be48c930d8ea@mail.gmail.com> I would ask the articles relating to the original descriptions of *Hesione splendida* Savigny, 1818 and *H. picta* Fritz M?ller, 1858, because here in Paraiba, Brazil we do not have these items. -- Dim?tri de Ara?jo Costa Laborat?rio de Invertebrados Paulo Young Departamento de Sistem?tica e Ecologia - DSE Centro de Ci?ncias Exatas e da Natureza - CCEN Universidade Federal da Para?ba Jo?o Pessoa - Para?ba CEP: 58059-900 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/annelida/attachments/20071204/cee76871/attachment.html From msjoneser from gmail.com Thu Dec 6 15:57:43 2007 From: msjoneser from gmail.com (Scott Jones) Date: Thu Dec 6 17:34:45 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Marine Megadrile? Message-ID: <171f92f0712061257u168740e4k82982680a53bd2ac@mail.gmail.com> Wormophiles: I have collected some large ( 68 mm and longer, 2.5 mm wide ) megadrile oligochaetes on an intertidal flat in Fort Pierce, FL. They were located by flipping over rocks. Body is naked and somatic chaetae are simple and paired; there is no visible clitellum. I have not dissected these animals yet. Anyone have suggestions about what group this may belong to, or at least where to start? thanks Scott Jones SMSFP -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/annelida/attachments/20071206/5b0403ce/attachment.html From christer.erseus from zool.gu.se Fri Dec 7 02:35:00 2007 From: christer.erseus from zool.gu.se (Christer.erseus) Date: Fri Dec 7 03:40:42 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Marine Megadrile? Message-ID: <2d46c3a369f83fa13273320b9a4572a3@zool.gu.se> Dear Scott, It is very likely that you have found Pontodrilus litoralis (family Megascolecidae), a circumtropical "morphospecies" common in not so exposed beaches all around the globe. Historically, several nominal taxa were described for various forms and populations, but they were all merged under a single species name by Easton in 1984. An additional species, Pontodrilus primoris was described from Tasmanian seashores by Blakemore (2000); otherwise there seem to be no other "marine" earthworms". I was always intrigued by this, so a student of mine and I now have a paper in the pipeline that will show that the genetic variation is considerable even among Pontodrilus worms from the same locality. [In fact, our study includes specimens from the Fort Pierce area, where we found two distinctly separate genotypes, likely to represent different (sibling) species.] All the best, Christer Ers?us -----Original message----- From: "Scott Jones" msjoneser@gmail.com Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:57:43 +0100 To: annelida@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Subject: [Annelida] Marine Megadrile? > Wormophiles: > > I have collected some large ( 68 mm and longer, 2.5 mm wide ) megadrile > oligochaetes on an intertidal flat in Fort Pierce, FL. They were located by > flipping over rocks. > > Body is naked and somatic chaetae are simple and paired; there is no > visible clitellum. I have not dissected these animals yet. > > Anyone have suggestions about what group this may belong to, or at least > where to start? > > thanks > Scott Jones > SMSFP > > From robblakemore from bigpond.com Sun Dec 9 22:12:09 2007 From: robblakemore from bigpond.com (robblakemore@bigpond.com) Date: Sun Dec 9 22:15:19 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Marine Megadrile? Message-ID: <380-22007121103129260@M2W029.mail2web.com> In general I would concur that the most likely candidate is Pontodrilus litoralis, but additional information is that there are reports of littoral "earthworms" of family Glossoscolecidae (e.g. Pontoscolex) in Caribbean and of Acanthodrilidae (e.g. Microscolex) in the Southern Ocean. Regarding Pontodrilus, five species are now known, but only two are from shorelines. Just published is my review: Blakemore, R.J. (2007). Origin and means of dispersal of cosmopolitan Pontodrilus litoralis (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). European Journal of Soil Biology. 43:S3-8. I can send reprint copy if you wish. Regards, Rob Blakemore Original Message: ----------------- From: Christer.erseus christer.erseus@zool.gu.se Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 08:35:00 +0100 To: msjoneser@gmail.com, annelida@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Subject: Re: [Annelida] Marine Megadrile? Dear Scott, It is very likely that you have found Pontodrilus litoralis (family Megascolecidae), a circumtropical "morphospecies" common in not so exposed beaches all around the globe. Historically, several nominal taxa were described for various forms and populations, but they were all merged under a single species name by Easton in 1984. An additional species, Pontodrilus primoris was described from Tasmanian seashores by Blakemore (2000); otherwise there seem to be no other "marine" earthworms". I was always intrigued by this, so a student of mine and I now have a paper in the pipeline that will show that the genetic variation is considerable even among Pontodrilus worms from the same locality. [In fact, our study includes specimens from the Fort Pierce area, where we found two distinctly separate genotypes, likely to represent different (sibling) species.] All the best, Christer Ers??us -----Original message----- From: "Scott Jones" msjoneser@gmail.com Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:57:43 +0100 To: annelida@magpie.bio.indiana.edu Subject: [Annelida] Marine Megadrile? > Wormophiles: > > I have collected some large ( 68 mm and longer, 2.5 mm wide ) megadrile > oligochaetes on an intertidal flat in Fort Pierce, FL. They were located by > flipping over rocks. > > Body is naked and somatic chaetae are simple and paired; there is no > visible clitellum. I have not dissected these animals yet. > > Anyone have suggestions about what group this may belong to, or at least > where to start? > > thanks > Scott Jones > SMSFP > > _______________________________________________ Annelida mailing list Post: Annelida@net.bio.net Help/archive: http://www.bio.net/biomail/listinfo/annelida Resources: http://www.annelida.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- myhosting.com - Premium Microsoft? Windows? and Linux web and application hosting - http://link.myhosting.com/myhosting From TimWorsfold from unicomarine.com Tue Dec 18 06:11:49 2007 From: TimWorsfold from unicomarine.com (Tim Worsfold) Date: Tue Dec 18 16:37:02 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Request for demonstrators Message-ID: <198B52C3071D024D855BA9587835D5440DB335@SBS01.unicomarine.local> Dear All, The National Marine Biological Quality Control (NMBAQC; www.nmbaqcs.org ) Scheme will host its next identification workshop in November 2008. We are always looking for people with expertise in annelid families to present identification guides (for UK - north European - spp.). Keys (some of which can be downloaded from the Scheme's website) have previously been presented for Maldanidae, Syllidae, Glyceridae, Goniadidae, Cirratulidae and Lumbrineridae. Presentations would be welcome for almost any other family, as well as updates for previously covered groups, where there is new identification information (not in the most widely used guides) to be circulated. Families that would be particularly useful include Polynoidae, Sphaerodoridae, Nereidae, Nephtyidae, Onuphidae, Eunicidae, Paraonidae, Spionidae, Ampharetidae, Terebellidae and Sabellidae. The Scheme would fund travel and attendance time at the workshop and limited preparation time. We would be pleased to hear from anyone who might be interested. Tim Worsfold, David Hall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Paliaga 5 52210 Rovinj Croatia From boylem from hawaii.edu Fri Dec 21 00:43:18 2007 From: boylem from hawaii.edu (Michael Boyle) Date: Fri Dec 21 14:18:31 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Dales 1977 Message-ID: Dear Annelida folks, Would someone out there have a copy/pdf of the following: Dales, R. P. 1977 The polychaete stomatodeum and phylogeny. In Essays on polychaetous annelids in memory of Dr Olga Hartman (ed. D. J. Reish & K. Fauchald), 525-546. University of Southern California, The Allan Hancock Foundation, Los Angeles. I would greatly appreciate a copy if it is available! Thanks very much, Michael ------------------------------------------ Michael J Boyle PhD candidate Department of Zoology University of Hawai'i at Manoa Kewalo Marine Laboratory 41 Ahui Street Honolulu, HI 96813 808-539-7323 boylem@hawaii.edu ------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.bio.net/bionet/mm/annelida/attachments/20071220/28927df9/attachment.html From paavo from benthicscience.com Fri Dec 21 22:33:50 2007 From: paavo from benthicscience.com (Brian Paavo) Date: Fri Dec 21 23:53:30 2007 Subject: [Annelida] Polydocs Message-ID: <476C859E.9030500@benthicscience.com> Aloha Worm Folks! I hope you are all having a great holiday season. Looking back at the annelida archives (thank you Geoff) a rather large percentage of our exchanges seem to be people looking for papers. I know that there are disjointed projects underway for providing access to such papers, but finding broken references is sometimes easier than finding the papers themselves. It seems that polychaete folks need a place to share documents so I just created polydocs for us (http://www.wormguy.com/polydocs.html) as a place where you can post papers and unpublished (but useful) reports and data. Dozens of people download the Invertebrate Zoology dictionary from my site each month, so I have hope that this can be a useful resource. I'm willing to provide server space and my compilation/indexing time if you're willing to provide useful documents. I plan to keep www.wormguy.com alive as long as I am (anybody want it after that?) so I hope it will be around for a few more years. How to Contribute All contributors are responsible for their own submissions and should only submit documents they have a right to distribute freely. If any publisher or other entity has exclusive distribution rights and requests that a document be removed I will do so. Two categories will be supported: peer-reviewed/published papers and unpublished (but presumably useful) data. Unpublished data such as local references, guides, workbooks, and useful but not publication-worthy data set submission is encouraged. Email your human-readable submission as a .pdf document (one at a time) to paavo@wormguy.com. Include a plain-text message with the publication title and abstract. Data-only can be submitted in a variety of database formats or spreadsheets ONLY if sufficient meta-data is provided to interpret the data (collection methods, locations, limitations, etc.). If the document list grows large I will provide an Endnote library file for convenient searching. To avoid dead-link maintenance, only documents actually stored on this system will be listed. Happy Holidays, Brian Paavo ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Benthic Science Limited 1 Porterfield Street Macandrew Bay, Dunedin New Zealand 9014 http://www.benthicscience.com/bshome.htm Telephone/Fax +64-03-476-1712 Mobile/Text +64-021-189-3459 .............................................. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Because I purchase the hardware and have funded development myself I'm afraid I can't send them out to worm folk free, but beta-testers will get them at 'below-cost', free support, and free upgrade(s) to the full version for one year in exchange for feedback within 3 months. If anyone would like to participate please drop me a note. Thanks for your time and thoughts. I hope you are all enjoying the holidays surrounded by family and friends. Cheers, Brian Paavo :o) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Benthic Science Limited 1 Porterfield Street Macandrew Bay, Dunedin New Zealand 9014 http://www.benthicscience.com/bshome.htm Telephone/Fax +64-03-476-1712 Mobile/Text +64-021-189-3459 .............................................. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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