Chelicerata are a basically terrestrial group of invertebrates,
including many clades whose representatives have never found an
evolutionary way to aquatic live. An exception is made by some
spiders and the highly diverse aquatic mites which in inland water
habitats are represented by members of numerous different clades
having evolved an aquatic or amphibious lifestyle along various
evolutionary pathways. For the first time in limnofaunistic
bibliography, the present taxonomic knowledge about these different
groups of invertebrates is brought together in an overview for the
Central-European fauna.
This second volume includes taxonomic keys and ecological
information for the two species-rich superfamilies Hydryphantoidea
and Lebertioidea of the freshwater mites (Hydrachnidia). A further
volume in preparation will include the remaining two superfamilies,
Hygrobatoidea and Arrenuroidea.
The chelicerata volumes of this series are a basic tool for all
limnologists interested in diversity and ecology - in particular
for biologists investigating the ecotones between ground- and
surface water, between benthos and plankton, and between water and
land.
Jürgen Schwoerbel , geb. 1930 in Duisburg, Studium der Zoologie, Botanik, Limnologie und Geologie an den Universitäten Innsbruck und Freiburg. Seit 1971 Professor für Limnologie an der Universität Freiburg, seit 1980 auch an der Universität Konstanz. Fachveröffentlichungen. Der Autor verstarb 2002.
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