Shallow-Water Marine Isopod Crustaceans of the Tropical East Pacific: Concluding Study

圣地亚哥自然历史博物馆的理查德·德雷卡博士 即将完成一系列的专著， 热带东太平洋的海洋等足类动物。 他现在的 利用扫描电子显微镜对Rocinela属的研究 显微镜，将带来他的分析， 和Flabellifera完成。 该属的成员有 寄生在鱼类身上，在大多数博物馆中很少展出 收藏. 雷吉纳博士收集了一系列前所未有的 新的样本进行研究。 拟议的专著将大大增加我们的 了解热带海洋的演化和生态 有机体 本专题系列的完成将有 影响超出了甲壳类专家的关注。 海洋生态学家将有新的可靠的鉴定 套. 进化和地理学研究将使用 专著作为研究重要过程的基础， 海洋学和历史复杂的一部分。

Dr. Richard Brusca of the San Diego Natural History Museum is nearing completion of a series of monographs documenting the marine isopods of the tropical eastern Pacific. His current project, a study of the genus Rocinela using scanning electron microscopy, will bring his analysis of the suborders Valvifera and Flabellifera to completion. Members of this genus are parasitic on fishes, and are poorly represented in most museum collections. Dr. Brusca has assembled an unprecedented array of new samples for study. The proposed monograph will add significantly to our understanding of the evolution and ecology of tropical marine organisms. The completion of this monographic series will have implications beyond the concerns of crustacean specialists. Marine ecologists will have new and reliable identification guides. Evolutionary and biogeographic studies will use the monographs as a basis for studying important processes in an oceanographically and historically complex part of the world.