Relocation cases, in which a divorced parent seeks to move away with the child, are among the knottiest problems facing family courts. The recent trend is to permit such moves, largely because of Wallerstein's (1995) controversial amica curiae brief, which a recent court (Baures v. Lewis, 2001) interpreted as supporting the conclusion that "in general, what is good for the custodial parent is g...

The genus Envia, comprising only the new species Envia garciai, is proposed. These small mygalomorph spiders were abundantly collected in soil cores and litter samples in primary rain forests near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil.

Eelgrass (Zostera marina) beds are known to have high ecological and economical values within coastal ecosystems of the temperate northern hemisphere although their biodiversity and functions varied greatly from sites to sites. The variation in the biomass, abundance and diversity of mobile invertebrates in eelgrass beds has been examined in relation to various abiotic and biotic factors, such ...

In this paper, we report the finding of a specimen of Haplosyllis (Polychaeta: Syllidae) living attached to the pleopod of a female of the pontoniin shrimp Platycaris latirostris Holthuis 1952, which, in turn, lives symbiotically with the scleractinian coral Galaxea astreata (Lamarck 1816) in the Vietnamese coasts of the South China Sea. This association is considered as ectoparasitic, being th...