This third volume of The Crustacea, revised and updated from the Traité de Zoologie contains chapters on: Neuroanatomy; Neurohormones; Embryology; and, Relative Growth and Allometry. The volume concludes with a list of contributors, as well as with both taxonomic and subject indices.
J. Forest ( ), editor of the original French volumes of the Trait de Zoologie, with his impressive published record on various groups of Crustacea, acted as a supervising editor of the series. J.C. von Vaupel Klein, formerly at the university of Leiden and managing editor of "Crustaceana," is principal translator of the French volumes of the Trait and coordinating editor of this series as a whole. F.R. Schram, an authority on the systematics and phylogeny a wide range of crustacean taxa, currently has an appointment as a Research Associate at the Burke Museum of Natural History of the university of Washington, Seattle, Washington. M. Charmantier-Daures is an associate professor at the university of Montpellier and well known for her work on crustacean ecophysiology and genetics. She also is an editor of Crustaceana International Journal of Crustacean Research.