Aquatic Oligochaete Biology VI: Proceedings of the VI International Symposium on Aquatic Oligochaetes held in Stromstat, Sweden, September 5–10, 1994

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
 Tenagodrilus musculus , a new genus and species of Lumbriculidae (Clitellata) from a temporary pond in Alabama, USA....Pages 1-9
 Kathrynella , a new oligochaete genus from Guyana....Pages 11-15
Oligochaetes (Naididae, Tubificidae, Opistocystidae, Enchytraeidae, Sparganophilidae and Alluroididae) of Guyana....Pages 17-29
Species separation and identification in the Enchytraeidae (Oligochaeta, Annelida): combining morphology with general protein data....Pages 31-36
Aquatic Oligochaeta in Italy, with special reference to Naididae....Pages 37-49
The distribution of Oligochaeta on an exposed rocky shore in southeast Ireland....Pages 51-62
Oligochaeta and Aphanoneura in ancient lakes: a review....Pages 63-72
Distribution patterns of aquatic oligochaetes inhabiting watercourses in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula....Pages 73-83
The effect of water movement on the distribution of Oligochaeta in lakes....Pages 85-88
Oligochaeta of Lake Taimyr: a preliminary survey....Pages 89-95
Influence of grain size on the distribution of tubificid oligochaete species....Pages 97-101
Oligochaetes in the southern basin of the Venetian Lagoon: community composition, species abundance and biomass....Pages 103-114
Seasonal dynamics of aufwuchs Naididae (Oligochaeta) on Phragmites australis in a eutrophic lake....Pages 115-123
Age, stage and size structure as population state variables for Tubifex tubifex (Oligochaeta, Tubificidae)....Pages 125-132
Energy budget of Oligochaeta and its relationship with the primary production of Lake Sevan, Armenia....Pages 133-140
Production and population dynamics of Tubifex tubifex in the profundal zone of a freshwater reservoir in N. Italy....Pages 141-146
Superficial and hyporheic oligochaete communities as indicators of pollution and water exchange in the River Moselle, France....Pages 147-155
Reversal of eutrophication in four Swiss lakes: evidence from oligochaete communities....Pages 157-161
A comparison of two tubificid oligochaete species as candidates for sublethal bioassay tests relevant to subtropical and tropical regions....Pages 163-168
Oligochaetes and eutrophication; an experiment over four years in outdoor mesocosms....Pages 169-183
Oligochaete communities at the mouth of the Neva and their relationship to anthropogenic impact....Pages 185-191
Upstream-downstream movement of macrofauna (with special reference to oligochaetes) in the River Raba below a reservoir....Pages 193-198
A comparison of reproduction, growth and acute toxicity in two populations of Tubifex tubifex (Müller, 1774) from the North American Great Lakes and Northern Spain....Pages 199-206
Morphogenesis of helical fibers in haplotaxids....Pages 207-217
Histochemical characterization of secretions in the reproductive systems of two species of branchiobdellidans (Annelida: Clitellata): a new character for the phylogenetic matrix?....Pages 219-227
An ultrastructural investigation of Hrabeiella Pižl & Chalupský, 1984 (Annelida). I. Chaetae and body wall organization....Pages 229-239
Peripheral vascular apparatus in some aquatic oligochaetes with special references to haplotaxids....Pages 241-249
Osmoregulation in two aquatic oligochaetes from habitats with different salinity and comparison to other annelids....Pages 251-261
Cinematographic documentation of enchytraeid morphology and reproductive biology....Pages 263-267
The first two cleavages in Tubifex involve distinct mechanisms to generate asymmetry in mitotic apparatus....Pages 269-276
Leeches (Oligochaeta?: Euhirudinea), their phylogeny and the evolution of life-history strategies....Pages 277-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-295