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(1)THIS well-known general "Handbuch der Zoologie" revives the term Vermes, which has practically ceased to be used in English texts. The Vermes are divided into three groups, the Amera, Polymera and Oligomera. The present part is the first of the section of the book to treat of the Oligomera. This group includes three classes: (1) Tentaculata, that is, the Phoronidea, Bryozoa and Brachiopoda ; (2) Sagittoidea (Chae-tognatha) ; and (3) Brachiotremata, that is, the Pterobranchia and Enteropneusta. The first sixty pages contain an introduction to the Oligomera, including a bibliography of general works. The next four pages are an introduction to the Tentaculata hi particular, and the last sixty-four pages furnish a complete and most useful account of the Phoronidea up to the first few items of the special bibliography of that group. The whole part contains 150 well-produced figures, a good number of which are original. A curious error has crept in on p. 123. No. 24, Phoronis pacifica is correctly stated to be Puget Sound and Humbolt Bay, but on the map point 24 is depicted on the east coast a little south of New York.
Handbuch der Zoologie: eine Naturgeschichte der Stämme des Tierreiches
Gegründet von Prof. Dr. Willy Kükenthal. Herausgebenen von Dr. Thilo Krumbach. (Berlin und Leipzig: Walter de Gruyter und Co., 1937.) (1) Band 3, Hälfte 2: Chelicerata, Pantopoda, Onychophora, Vermes Oligomera. Lief. 10, Teil 5. Pp. 7–134. 18 gold marks. (2) Band 3, Hälfte 2: Chelicerata, Pantopoda, Onychophora, Vermes Oligomera. Lief. 9, Teil 2. Pp. 289–384. 12 gold marks. Band 3, Hälfte 2: Chelicerata, Pantopoda, Onychophora, Vermes Oligomera. Lief. 11. Pp. 385–496. 16 gold marks. (3) Band 5, Hälfte 2: Tunicata. Lief. 6. Pp. 545–672. 18 gold marks. (4) Band 6, Hälfte 1: Acrania (Cephalochorda) = Cyclostoma, Ichthya. Bearbeitet von Dr. Victor Pietschmann. Lief. 5. Pp. 449–560. 14 gold marks. (5) Band 7, Hälfte 1: Sauropside, Allgemeines ; Reptilia ; Aves. Lief. 3. Pp. 225–320. 14 gold marks.
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Handbuch der Zoologie: . Nature 141, 627 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/141627a0
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