To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Insects & other Invertebrates  Arthropods (excl. insects)  Centipedes & Millipedes (Myriapoda)

Die Hundertfüßer (Centipedes) Chilopoda

Monograph
By: Jörg Rosenberg(Author)
524 pages, 8 plates with colour photos 127 colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings, 31 tables
Die Hundertfüßer (Centipedes)
Click to have a closer look
  • Die Hundertfüßer (Centipedes) ISBN: 9783894327125 Paperback May 2009 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 2-4 weeks
    £85.00
    #179962
Price: £85.00
About this book Customer reviews Related titles

About this book

Language: German

Among the soil-dwelling arthropods the centipedes or Chilopoda constitute an important predatory animal group of more than 3.000 species worldwide. With the exception of Antarctica centipedes inhabit all continents from the coasts up to the mountain regions. Although they reach their biggest diversity in the tropics and the subtropics, over 500 species are described for Central Europe. Due to their nocturnal and furtive habits the Chilopoda are widely unknown, however.

The European representatives belong to the orders Scutigeromorpha (house centipedes), Lithobiomorpha (stone centipedes), Scolopendromorpha (tropical centipedes) and Geophilomorpha (soil centipedes), while the Craterostigmomorpha comprise only two species found in New Zealand and in Tasmania, respectively. The name "centipede" is delusive, however, because only some Geophilomorpha have more than 150 pairs of legs while the remaining groups "only" have 15-23 pairs of legs.

The present German monograph of the Chilopoda outlines the current knowledge about this intriguing animal group. The attempt is made to summarize the information recorded in a huge number of older and newer original publications. The families are described depicting their anatomical and morphological specifics. Detailed information is given about development and reproduction, physiology, behaviour, ecology etc.

The book offers a valuable introduction to the Chilopoda for everyone who is concerned with centipedes. Information about keeping and breeding centipedes is provided to encourage the reader to make own observations about these fascinating arthropods.

Customer Reviews

Monograph
By: Jörg Rosenberg(Author)
524 pages, 8 plates with colour photos 127 colour & b/w photos and b/w line drawings, 31 tables
Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides