INTERESTING MEETINGS: (arachnological meetings are highlighted):
2008
32th Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society (AAS), 25-30 June 2008, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, TBA
The First International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology, 17-21 August 2008, Kopenhagen, Denmark: http://www.icim-1.dk
24th EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF ARACHNOLOGY, 25-29 August 2008, Bern, Switzerland: http://www.esa2008.unibe.ch
The 19th International Symposium of Subterranean Biology: 21-26 September 2008, Fremantle, Western Australia http://www.issb2008.org.au
Next International Congress of Arachnology will convene in Poland in 2010.
Future AAS Meetings:
2009 - McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Québec, Canada
2010 - Arkansas Tech, Russellville, Arkansas, USA
2011 -- Portland, Oregon, USA -- venue TBA
2012 -- University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
Important Links:
The Scorpion Files by Jan Ove Rein (Trondheim, Norway) (contain the complete list of scorpion taxa)
The Scorpion Fauna by Eric Ythier (many useful things and pictures + Bibliography of Scorpions by Gerard Dupré)
ARACHNODATA by Matt E. Braunwalder (Zurich, Switzerland)
Australian Biodiversity Database (data on Australian scorpions by Erich Volschenk & Mark Harvey)
Kari's Scorpion Pages by Kari McWest (Texas, USA)
Brent E. Hendrixson's Arachnids
Singapore Scorpion Page by Chua Kian Wee
Yahoo Scorpionfans [former Scorpion-enthusiasts] Online Forum
Scorpions in Turkey by A. & A. Karatas
Scorpionscience.net by Dietmar Huber (Austria)
Scorpions from the Chihuahuan Desert Region of Mexico and the United States by Chad Lee (Texas, USA)
Scorpions of southern Africa by Jonathan Leeming
GenBank Database (type in a Latin name and find update on any species' genes and proteins)
Scorpion Toxin Database (Singapore) (search for known toxins)
AMNH Scorpion Systematics Research Group
Personalia:
Scorpiologists' Gallery - PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS !!!
Scorpiologists' Personal Web Pages: Luis Acosta, Tim Benton, Richard Bradley, Matt Braunwalder, Philip Brownell, Jason Dunlop, Roger Farley, Victor Fet, Gerta Fleissner, Gunther Fleissner, Eduardo Florez, Dan Formanowicz, Doug Gaffin, Benjamin Gantenbein, Alexander Gromov, Neil Hadley, Brent Hendrixson, Richard Henson, Dietmar Huber, Frantisek Kovarik, Chad Lee, Camilo Mattoni, Kari McWest, Mark Newton, José Ochoa, Alfredo Peretti, Pascal Riewe, Warren Savary, Paul Selden, W. David Sissom, Scott Stockwell, Sara Tallarovic, Carlos Toscano-Gadea, Dieter Walossek, Tsunemi Yamashita, Eric Ythier
Scorpion Toxin Researchers: Michael Gurevitz, Bruce Hammock, Rama Krischna, Marcel Pelhate, Lourival Possani, Carlos Sevcik
Scorpiologists' Memorial Gallery
Books:
NEW ! Fauna Helvetica 13. Scorpiones (Arachnida). By Matt E. Braunwalder (2005). Centre suisse de cartographie de la Faune/Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, 240 pp (in German and Italian !) [systematics chapter by V. Fet & M. E. Braunwalder] Order form
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orpions of Brazil by Wilson R. Lourenço (2002), Les Éditions de l'If , 308 pp. Price 45 Euros plus shipping cost; Download FlierScorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis (V. Fet & P.A. Selden, eds) (2001)
Scorpion Biology and Research (P.H. Brownell & G.A. Polis, eds.) (2001); table of contents
The Biology of Scorpions (G.A. Polis, ed.) (1990)
Scorpion Man by L. Pringle & G.A. Polis (1994) -- the life of Gary A. Polis
Scorpions: Everything About Purchase, Care, Feeding, and Housing by Manny Rubio (2000)
The Most Important Books on Scorpions
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature
Journals (arachnological journals are highlighted):
Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society; Journal of Arachnology; American Arachnology; Revista Iberica de Aracnologia; Euscorpius; The American Naturalist; Cladistics; Discover; Evolution; Israel Journal of Zoology; Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins (Brazil); Nature; Nature Conservancy; Organisms, Diversity & Evolution; Revue Suisse de Zoologie; Science; Scientific American; Systematic Biology; Toxicon
Societies (arachnological societies are highlighted):
International Society of Arachnology (ISA, formerly CIDA); American Arachnological Society (AAS); British Arachnological Society (BAS); Arachnologische Gesellschaft (AraGes); Société Européenne d'Arachnologie (S. E. A.); Le Groupe d'Etude des Arachnides (G.E.A.); Arachnological Society of Japan; American Society of Naturalists; WWW Directory of Entomological Societies; International Society on Toxinology; Society of Systematic Biologists; Society for the Study of Evolution; Society for Integrated and Comparative Biology