Aquatic Oligochaetes

Chapter 1 Past symposium attendees in the group photographs

Chapter 2 Retrospect and Prospect: reflections on forty years of study of aquatic oligochaetes

Chapter 3 Zoogeography of branchiobdellidans (Annelida) and temnocephalidans (Platyhelminthes) ectosymbiotic on freshwater crustaceans, and their reactions to one another in vitro

Chapter 4 Studies on the aquatic oligochaete fauna in Lake Biwa, central Japan. II. Records and taxonomic remarks of nine species

Chapter 5 Monopylephorus camachoi nov. sp., a new rhyacodriline worm (Tubificidae: Clitellata) from the Coiba Island, on the east Pacific Coast of Panama

Chapter 6 Records of Enchytraeidae (Clitellata) from the People’s Republic of China

Chapter 7 Distribution of freshwater oligochaetes in the west and east coastal regions of the North Pacific Ocean

Chapter 8 Enzymatic variability in sympatric species of Tubifex (Clitellata: Tubificidae)

Chapter 9 Terrestrial polychaetes — models for the evolution of the Clitellata (Annelida)?

Chapter 10 Clitellate diversity in Nationalstadsparken, an urban national park in Stockholm, Sweden

Chapter 11 Finding enchytraeid oligochaetes (Clitellata) in hot climates: species occurrence on the shores of Bermuda

Chapter 12 Spatial distribution of oligochaetes (Clitellata) in the tidal freshwater and brackish parts of the Schelde estuary (Belgium)

Chapter 13 Distribution and dispersal capacity of the Ponto-Caspian tubificid oligochaete Potamothrix heuscheri (Bretscher, 1900) in Scandinavia

Chapter 14 Oligochaeta and Aphanoneura in two Northern German hardwater lakes of different trophic state

Chapter 15 Micro-distribution of oligochaetes in a soft-bottomed lowland stream (Elsbeek; The Netherlands)

Chapter 16 Oligochaeta from the abyssal zone of Lake Baikal (Siberia, Russia)

Chapter 17 Oligochaetes of Karavasta Lagoon (Albania). Preliminary results

Chapter 18 A comparison among different population models for Limnodrilus hoffmeisteri Claparède (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae)

Chapter 19 Assessment of secondary production of naididae (Oligochaeta): an example from a North German lake

Chapter 20 Ultrastructure and functional significance of intestinojunctional spermathecae in enchytraeids (Oligochaeta, Annelida)

Chapter 21 New sperm types in Naididae and Lumbriculidae (Annelida: Oligochaeta) and their possible phylogenetic implications

Chapter 22 CLSM analysis of serotonin-immunoreactive neurons in the central nervous system of Nais variabilis , Slavina appendiculata and Stylaria lacustris (Oligochaeta: Naididae)

Chapter 23 Tubificoides benedii (Tubificidae, Oligochaeta) — a pioneer in hypoxic and sulfidic environments. An overview of adaptive pathways

Chapter 24 Decoupling of fission and regenerative capabilities in an asexual oligochaete

Chapter 25 Autotomy reflex in a freshwater oligochaete, Lumbriculus variegatus (Clitellata: Lumbriculidae)

Chapter 26 Helical swimming and body reversal behaviors in Lumbriculus variegatus (Annelida: Clitellata: Lumbriculidae)

Chapter 27 Bioaccumulation test with Tubificid Sludgeworms in artificial media development of a standardisable method

Chapter 28 Lumbriculids, branchiobdellidans and leeches: an overview of recent progress in phylogenetic research on clitellates