This book discusses the role of zoos in a modern, environmentally conscious society. It does this by offering the reader the opportunity to answer 600 multiple-choice questions on a wide range of topics including zoo history, enclosure design, aquarium management, animal behaviour and welfare, zoo...

The species within the Tribe Dacini from Papua New Guinea, Indonesian Papua (West Papua, Central Papua, Papua), associated islands and Bougainville are recorded. In all, 296 species are recorded including 65 new species described herein. The new species are treated under two genera, Bactrocera...

This book is a comprehensive compilation of all scientific names introduced at all levels of classification within the Culicidae family since the official start of zoological nomenclature. It is principally a lexicon, divided into sections, most of which contain a comprehensive list of taxonomic...

This section presents a list of all species-group names applied to Culicidae from Linnaeus (1758). The species group comprises a total of 5390 names (including the 3 new replacement names): 3559 valid extant species; 130 extant subspecies; 59 nomina dubia; 25 valid fossil species; 76 nomina nuda,...

This section provides information of currently valid species-group names of Culicidae in their original formation and generic placement compared with their formations and generic assignments in the current traditional classification and the classification of Reinert et al. Among the 3559 species...

This paper presents some thoughts on morphology- and molecular-based taxonomy and nomenclature of Culicidae. The fate of mosquito species discovery and naming in the face of environmental alteration and destruction, and the problems associated with name changes brought by new-age taxonomy are...

The species within the Tribe Dacini, from Indomalaya to north-west Australasia, are described and illustrated. In all, 423 species are recorded from this region and treated under four genera, Bactrocera (with 18 subgenera), Dacus (with five subgenera), Ichneumonopsis and Monacrostichus. One new...

This supplementary volume to the book "Keys to the Nematode Parasites of Vertebrates" includes revised and redescribed taxa, and draws attention to new taxa published by many authors after the "Keys" were completed and identifies the current position of some of the older taxa not included in the...

This chapter outlines the diagnostic keys for the genera belonging to the superfamilies Diaphanocephaloidea, Ancylostomatoidea, Strongyloidea, Trichostrongyloidea, and Metastrongyloidea (Order Strongylida, Nematoda). The morphoanatomical features of the listed genera are described, along with...

This chapter outlines the diagnostic keys for the genera belonging to the superfamily Oxyuroidea (Order Oxyurida, Nematoda). The morphoanatomical features of the listed genera are described, along with illustrations for some genera. Taxonomic revisions that have been proposed since their...