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Two more new species of sea cucumbers recognized |
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Written by Yves Samyn
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Monday, 20 June 2011 09:12 |
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Claude together with a Mexico-based Belgian colleague just released a new paper on the deep-water sea cucumbers off the Pacific coast of Mexico. Perhaps we should start counting the number of new species described per nationality of descriptor? Surely, Belgium shall rank with the Big Five;-)
You can read the paper here. |
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Marine Biodiversity declared as theme for the 2012 International Day for Biological Diversity |
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Written by Yves Samyn
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Wednesday, 01 June 2011 06:54 |
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Read more in the official communiqué of the CBD Secretariat |
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Written by Yves Samyn
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Thursday, 10 February 2011 09:09 |
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Thanks to an unforeseen external source of funding, we are now in the lucky position to get two extra hands to work on our site. We welcome Kristien, technical expert at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, who will be uploading many bits in the coming weeks. |
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Written by Yves Samyn
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Friday, 04 March 2011 20:23 |
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In Belgium, today was the last day before the carnival holidays...Traditionaly school children then go to school in a costume; a witch, a gnome, a princess, etc.
We decided to act normal and went on with our business of digitizing ossicles of aspidochirotid type specimens, but today we put on a slightly more joyful outfit that we received from Aurore, a GTI/ABIC student from Ivory Coast.
Oh yes, the little dance performed is on the occasion of our finding of this 'snow-flake' ossicle in the cloaca of Stichopus japonicus var. typicus.
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Eight new apodid species from Antarctica described |
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Written by Yves Samyn
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Thursday, 23 December 2010 07:21 |
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Mark O'Loughlin and Didier VandenSpiegel say goodbye to 2010, the UN International Year for Biodiversity, with an impressive publication in which they erect the new genus Rowedota, recognize 8 apodids new to science, review three apodid genera and discuss a number of long-outstanding nomenclatural issues.
O’Loughlin, P.M. and VandenSpiegel, D. 2010. A revision of Antarctic and some Indo-Pacific apodid sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Apodida). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 67: 61–95. (links to journal)
  
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