Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres : présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent : précédée d'une introduction offrant la détermination des caractères essentiels de l'animal, sa distinction du végétal et des autres corps naturels, enfin, l'exposition des principes fondamentaux de la zoologie

The status of the northeastern Atlantic and Mediterranean small mussel drills of the <i>Ocinebrina aciculata</i> complex (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae), with the description of a new species

“…In the last revision of the European Muricidae, this taxon was rediscovered and described as O. aciculata exilis Houart, 2001(see Houart 2001. Because of the reported co-occurrence of specimens of O. aciculata (Lamarck, 1822) in the Gulf of Gabès (Pallary 1912;Cecalupo et al 2008) and to its peculiar morphological and radular features, O. aciculata exilis was raised to species level and then synonymized with Ocinebrina corallinoides Pallary, 1912 (Bonomolo andBuzzurro 2006;Cecalupo et al 2008 Description. Shell of medium size for the genus, TH up to 12.3 mm and TW 5.5 mm (9.9×5.1 in the holotype), fusiform, solid and with slightly scalariform appearance.…”

“…-the Ocinebrina aciculata complex, including O. aciculata (Lamarck, 1822), the type species of the genus; O. buzzurroi Cecalupo and Mariani, 2008;and O. corallinoides Pallary, 1912; -the Ocinebrina edwardsii complex, including O. edwardsii (Payraudeau, 1826); O. carmelae Cecalupo, Buzzurro and Mariani, 2008;O. erronea (Settepassi, 1977 ex Monterosato ms.); O. helleri (Brusina, 1865); O. hispidula Pallary, 1904;O.…”

Lamarck, Evolution, and the Inheritance of Acquired Characters

“…The inheritance of acquired characters was but a tiny item in the broad scheme of Lamarck's theorizing. A sense of the breadth of Lamarck's intellectual ambitions with respect to the whole of biology can be gained from consulting any of the subtitles of his three major treatises on the life sciences (Lamarck 1802b(Lamarck , 1809(Lamarck , 1815. None of them mentions the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters, or, for that matter, even the idea of species change.…”

“…None of them mentions the idea of the inheritance of acquired characters, or, for that matter, even the idea of species change. One finds reference instead to the broad topics of animal organization, its origin, the cause of its progressive development, and how it comes to be destroyed in the individual (Lamarck 1802b); to diversity of animal organization and the faculties resulting from it, along with the physical causes that maintain life in organized bodies (Lamarck 1809); and to the essential characters of animals, what distinguishes animals from plants and other natural bodies, and "the fundamental principles of zoology" (Lamarck 1815). In the "advertisement" to his Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres in 1815, Lamarck explained that he was offering in the introduction to that work "a truly general theory" concerning "the source of the existence, manner of being, faculties, variations and phenomena of organization of the different animals."…”

Do Spicules in Sediments Reflect the Living Sponge Community? A Test in a Caribbean Shallow-Water Lagoon

“…Bold 5 sponge species found in the sampling area during present study; Underlined 5 sponge species noted from Bocas del Toro for the first time; P. o. a. 5 present or absent; I. p. 5 if present (data from Hooper and Van Soest, 2002 (Hyatt, 1875) no spicules Aplysina lacunosa (Lamarck, 1814) no spicules Aplysina fulva (Pallas, 1766) no spicules Aplysina cauliformis (Carter, 1882) no spicules Aplysina insularis (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) no spicules Verongula rigida (Esper, 1794) no spicules Verongula reiswigi Alcolado, 1984 no spicules Dictyoceratida Irciniidae Ircinia strobilina (Lamarck, 1816) (Schmidt, 1870) slightly curved oxeas, strongyles .…”