Search publications of the members of the Royal Belgian institute of natural Sciences
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Losing the Bounty? Investigating Species Richness in Isolated Freshwater Ecosystems of Oceania
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On Paranacypris samambaiensis n.gen. n.sp. (Crustacea, Ostracoda), the first South American psychorodromid, from the floodplain of the Upper Parana River (Parana, Brazil)
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On Recent Species of Tonnacypris Diebel & Pietrzeniuk, 1975 (Crustacea, Ostracoda), with new species descriptions from Mongolia
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Redescription of the type species of Strandesia Stuhlmann, 1888) and Cypricercus Sars, 1895 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Cypricerecinae), with a description of a new species of Cypricercus from South Africa
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On a freshwater species of the genus Sanyuania Zhao and Han, 1980 (Crustacea, Ostracoda, Loxoconchidae) from Thailand, with a discussion on the morphological evolution of the freshwater Loxoconchidae
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Distribution and ecology of non-marine ostracods (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Friuli Venezia Giulia (NE Italy)
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On the first terrestrial ostracod of the superfamily Cytheroidea (Crustacea, Ostracoda)
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Ancient asexuals: darwinulids not exposed!
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On Thaicythere srisumonae n.gen., n.sp. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Thailand, with notes on the phylogeny of the subfamily Timiriaseviinae Mandelstam, 1960
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Editorial: the future of scientific publishing
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A comparative analysis of cladoceran communities from different water body types: patterns in community composition and diversity
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The freshwater animal diversity assessment: an overview of the results. In: BALLIAN, E. et al. (eds.): Freshwater animal diversity assessment
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Global biodiversity of non-marine Ostracoda (Crustacea). In: BALLIAN E. et al. (eds.): Freshwater animal diversity assessment
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An Introduction to the Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment (FADA) project. In: BALIAN, E. et al. (eds.): Freshwater animal diversity assessment
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Pleuston communities are buffered from regional flood pulses: the example of ostracods in the Parana River floodplain, Brazil
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Early release of eggs and embryos in a brooding ancient asexual ostracod: brood selection or bet-hedging to increase fecundity?
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Ostracodology in time and space. Looking back on fifteen International Symposia on Ostracods, and the times in-between
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Analysis of pollen and intestinal parasite eggs from medieval graves from Nivelles, Belgium: taphonomy of the burial ritual
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Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) and root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) - a century-old battle
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Guide for the identification of archaeological sea sturgeon (Acipenser sturio and A. oxyrinchus) remains.
- Remains of sturgeons (Acipenser sturio and A. oxyrinchus) are regularly found on western European archaeological sites. The identification of these isolated bones should ideally be carried out with the aid of a comparative skeletal collection, consisting of modern specimens of different sizes. Because such reference material of sea sturgeons (A. sturio and A. oxyrinchus) is relatively rare and dispersed over many different museums and institutes, a practical guide is presented here as an aid to the identification of the most commonly found archaeological sturgeon remains. This guide, which is based on observations made on 64 individuals housed in 13 different natural history collections, should allow identifying most archaeological sturgeon remains from western European sites. Presented are the morphological characteristics of the bones of the skull roof and circumorbital region (posttemporal, dermopterotic, parietal, frontal, dermosphenotic, postorbital, jugal and supraorbital), bones of the braincase (parasphenoid), opercular series (subopercle and branchiostegals), the palatoquadrate and associated bones and lower jaw (palatopterygoid, dermopalatine and dentary), the hyoid and gill arches with the hyomandibula, the isolated skeletal elements from the pectoral girdle (clavicle, cleithrum and supracleithrum), the bones of the fin and fin supports (pectoral fin spine, fin rays and fulcra) and the dorsal, ventral, lateral and accessory scutes. For each element, descriptions and pictures are provided of modern and archaeological specimens. Regression equations allowing fish length reconstructions on the basis of single bone measurements are given for 14 elements and the scutes. Finally, criteria for species identification are provided. In the case of the dentary, dermopalatine and palatopterygoid, these are differences in shape of the skeletal elements, whereas for the dermal bones the external surface pattern is diagnostic when reconstructed fish length is over one meter.
