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Books Received Get access Northeast Gulf Science.—A new journal, succeeding Journal of Marine Science, devoted to disseminating knowledge of the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and adjacent waters. Subscriptions are $4.00 per year (two issues), through the Editor, c/o Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Dauphin Island, Alabama 36528. The first four volumes (1977–1980) contain many articles on systematics and ecology of marine organisms, particularly fishes and crustaceans. Synopsis and Classification of Living Organisms.— Sybil P. Parker (ed.). 1982. McGraw-Hill, New York. 2 vols. xviii + 1166, 1232 pp. $149.50.—Semitechnical accounts of the families of living organisms, compiled by over 170 contributors; includes a 5 page essay on “Biological classification” by W. J. Bock. Wallace's Line and Plate Tectonics.— T. C. Whitmore. 1981. Clarendon Press, Oxford, xii + 91 pp. $39.00.—A ridiculously overpriced first volume in a series of “Oxford Monographs on Biogeography,” arguing that Celebes (a hybrid island) marks the collision of Laurasian and Gondwanian fragments a mere 15 million years ago and that biogeographers should now “interpret their own research findings against” this geological knowledge, and including chapters doing precisely that for palms and vertebrates. Evolutionary Biology, Vol. 14.— Max K. Hecht, Bruce Wallace, and Ghillean T. Prance (eds.). 1982. Plenum Press, New York, xiii + 445 pp. $39.50.—Includes chapters on the interrelationships of human races and the evolution of picture-winged Hawaiian Drosophila. Further Studies on the Cavernicole Fauna of Mexico and Adjacent Regions.— James R. Reddell (ed.). 1982. Association for Mexican Cave Studies Bull. 8. Texas Memorial Museum [Bull. 28], Austin. 288 pp. $18.00.—Including contributions on crustaceans, arachnids, millipedes, beetles, fishes, and bats. British Planarians.— Ian R. Ball and T. B. Reynoldson. 1981. Synopses of the British Fauna (new series), no. 19, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge. vii + 141 pp. $32.50.—Morphology, natural history, study methods, and systematics. A Review of Copepoda Associated with Sea Anemones and Anemone-like Forms (Cnidaria, Anthozoa).— Arthur G. Humes. 1982. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, Vol. 72, Part 2. 120 pp. $12.00.—Includes new genera and species, with host records. Faunal Affinities, Systematics, and Bionomics of the Orthoptera of the California Channel Islands.— D. C. F. Rentz and David B. Weissman. 1982. Univ. of California Publications, Entomology, Vol. 94, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, xiii + 240 pp.—A well-illustrated monograph, unfortunately with little information on the relationships of the Channel Island endemics. Chondrichthyes I: Paleozoic Elasmobranchii.— Rainer Zangerl. 1981. Handbook of Paleoichthyology, Vol. 3A, Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, New York. 115 pp. 168 German marks.—Heavily illustrated account, with cladograms. The Limits and Relationships of the Lutjanidae and Associated Families.— G. David Johnson. 1981. Bull. Scrips Inst. Oceanogr., Vol. 24, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley. 114 pp. $8.00.—Analysis of three superfamilies of percoid fishes. A Textbook of Entomology.— Herbert H. Ross, Charles A. Ross, and June R. P. Ross. Fourth edition, 1982. John Wiley and Sons, New York, xiii> + 696 pp. $25.95.—With greater emphasis on phylogeny than many comparable volumes. Analysis of Vertebrate Structure.— Milton Hildebrand. 1982. John Wiley and Sons, New York, xiv + 654 pp. $27.95.—Comparative anatomy text, with emphasis on function. Ecology of the Chihuahuan Desert: Organization of Some Vertebrate Communities.— Robert Barbault and Gonzalo Halffter (eds.). 1981. Instituto de Ecologia, Mexico (available from the Instituto, attn. Patricia Reidl, Apartado Postal 18-845, Deleg. Miguel Hidalgo, 11800 Mexico D.F.). 167 pp. $26.00.—Includes chapters on tortoises, lizards, birds, and small mammals. Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories, and Influence on Mankind.— Laurence M. Klauber. 1982. University of California Press, Berkeley, xxii + 250 pp. $19.95.—An abridgement of the two volume account. Social Biology of the Bushy-Tailed Woodrat, Neotoma cinerea.— Peter C. Escherich. 1982. Univ. of California Publications, Zoology, Vol. 110, Univ. of California Press, Berkeley, xiii + 132 pp. $10.00—Laboratory and field studies. Mammals of the National Parks.— Richard G. Van Gelder. 1982. Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Baltimore, xvi + 310 pp. $24.50, $8.95.—Field guide. Behavioral Enrichment in the Zoo.— Hal Markowitz. 1982. Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, ix + 210 pp. $24.00.—Enhancing the life styles of captive mammals. Perspectives in Running Water Ecology.— Maurice A. Lock and D. Dudley Williams (eds.). 1981. Plenum Press, New York, x + 430 pp. $49.50.—Includes chapters on ciliates and amphipods. The Role of Hyperparasitism in Biological Control: A Symposium.— David Rosen (ed.). 1981. Division of Agricultural Sciences, Univ. of California. Priced Publication 4103, Berkeley. 52 pp. $3.00—On the parasites of parasites. Biological Control in Crop Production.— George C. Papavizas (ed.). 1982. Beltsville Symposia in Agricultural Research, Vol. 5, Allanheld, Osmun and Co., Totowa, New Jersey, xii + 461 pp. $35.00.—Includes a chapter on “Symbiosis of biosystematics and biological control” by L. Knutson. Systematic Biology, Volume 31, Issue 2, June 1982, Pages 234–235, https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/31.2.234 Published: 01 June 1982