[Annelida] Advances in Earthworm Taxonomy / Roy Soc journals access / Spionidae harvesting

[Geoff Read]

Hello all,

**Recently published:

Advances in Earthworm Taxonomy IV, edited by Tomas Pavlicek, Patricia Cardet, Yuksel Coskun, Csaba Csuzdi (2010),  is:
      Proceedings of the 4th International Oligochaeta Taxonomy Meeting, Diyarbakir, Turkey, 20-24 April, 2009.

It is published in "Zoology in the Middle East" supplementum 5, published by Kasparek Verlag, Heidelberg. Price, EURO 40.00.

http://www.kasparek-verlag.de/ZME%20Abstracts/ZME-AbstractsSUPP2.htm 

Details of previous oligochaete taxonomy meeting proceedings are at:

http://5thiotm.tomas-pavlicek-biologie.net/pages/proceedings_list_en# 

The next (5th) meeting is at Beatenberg, Switzerland, April 11 to 15, 2011.  
What a site for a meeting! This looks so spectacular as a venue, I want to go there myself.

http://5thiotm.tomas-pavlicek-biologie.net/pages/beatenberg_en.php


**Royal Society Journals news

Good news. The Royal Society Digital Journal Archive, from 1665 to 2010 inclusive, will [again] be all free to view until 30 November 2010. 

http://royalsocietypublishing.org/journals 


** Spionid harvesting in Algeria

As the authors note, this must be the first record of wild commercial harvesting of a spionid. 

Younsi, M.; Daas, T.; Daas, O. ; Scaps, P. 2010:  Polychaetes of commercial interest from the Mediterranean East Coast of Algeria.  Mediterranean Marine Science 11(1): 185-188.

http://www.medit-mar-sc.net/listview2-content.php?id=556&cid=156&bc=156


Geoff

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