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SPECIES RICHNESS IN THE CONTEXT OF
INDO-PACIFIC BIODIVERSITY GRADIENT
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Thus in 1992, this commitment
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Ambassade de France
plays a decisive role in analysing
the motives of the host country,
in explaining positions and in
making contacts; in the so called
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of academic discipline of San
Carlos Borromeo & the missionary
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Divine Word. Its Biology Department
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28.06.04
- Cozy Nook / Several
species of mollusc settle and easily find
a cozy nook in a specific part of a host
especially in other invertebrates. We
take for example that of a sea cucumber,
Holothuria atra, wherein in its cavity
these micromolluscs are usually long,
and in its tentacles we can find Melanella
sp.... Read
More -Anders Warén,
Switzerland-
27.06.04
- An Amazing Number /
The astonishing diversity of this group
is manifested by the ratio of 370 registered
to date in this project to 622 species
currently known to the whole Philippines.
And the numbers may still be rising, just
like the newest finding yesterday of 2
specimens belonging to the order Acochlidiacea... Read
More-Manuel Malaquias, U.K.-
11.06.04
- Cerithioidea / "No!
it was mine! it was in my samples..hehehe",
teasingly confirms Virginie as she refers
to the gastropod speculated to be a new
species. This mollusc (see
pic) belongs to the Superfamily
Cerithioidea and will also be joining
the crab of Joelle in the Tshirt
Design... Read
More -Virginie Heros, Paris,
France-
11.06.04
- Confirmed / The elbow
crab mentioned by Joelle was really a
new species (see
pic). Swee Hee has confirmed
that this crab is an elbow crab Parthenopidae
and has placed it in the genus Pseudolambrus.
This crab is rather odd and a typical
of other members in the family... Read
More - Tan Swee Hee, Singapore-
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