Announcements

Giorgio Benassi

(Antonio Moroni is now retired) announced the publication of a book on Italian freshwater ostracods:

Antonio Moroni and Ken McKenzie, Ostracoda of the Italian Ricefield Ecosystems, Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze, Scritte e Documenti, 38, Roma, 2007, 222 p.

Abstract:

50 species of Ostracoda are recorded from the Italian ricefield ecosystem in a major revision which covers collections made from 1960-1986. Several original and subsequent misidentifications have been corrected. More or less complete descriptions for every genus, based on dissection slides in the Istituto di Ecologia (University of Parma) collections are provided; in several cases these are more detailed than any hitherto published. The remarkable fact that the Italian continental Ostracoda fauna includes many “foreign guest” (“ospiti esteri”) species which only occur in the ricefields ecosystem is stressed and its implications briefly discussed.

Don Van Nieuwenhuise

As treasurer of NAMS (North American Micropaleontology Section, SEPM), I am always happy to receive new applications from ostracodologists. Please check out the NAMS web site at http://sepm.org/nams/index.htm and send me your applications!