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Amphipods in Mediterranean Marine and Anchialine Caves: New Data and Overview of Existing Knowledge

Added on: 2023-12-01 19:55:10 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
New paper compiles all records of marine and brackish-water amphipods inhabiting marine and anchialine caves along the Mediterranean basin, combining information extracted from a literature review with newly acquired records ...

Discovery of a new scale worm with presumed deep-sea affinities from an anchialine cave in the Balearic Islands

Added on: 2022-09-11 13:14:48 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
A remarkable new genus and species of scale worm (Annelida: Polynoidae) was found on the bottom sediments of an anchialine cave on the island of Mallorca (Balearic Islands, western Mediterranean). ...

Distribution and Ecology of Decapod Crustaceans in Mediterranean Marine Caves: A Review

Added on: 2022-03-06 10:23:33 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
New review paper summarizes and updates the existing knowledge about the decapod fauna of Mediterranean marine caves on the basis of a dataset of 76 species from 133 caves in 13 Mediterranean countries. ...

Mediterranean marine caves: a synthesis of current knowledge

Added on: 2022-03-06 10:13:15 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
A total of 2369 taxa have been reported from 404 caves in 15 Mediterranean countries! ...

Rock sponges of deep-water origin in Mediterranean marine caves

Added on: 2021-02-05 16:36:28 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
Rock sponges of deep-water origin were recorded for the first time in shallow marine caves of the North-Eastern Mediterranean Sea, including sponge masses that could be up to 769-909 years old! ...

Three new species of microscopic "dragons" from a submarine cave

Added on: 2020-06-16 13:29:11 by Yamasaki, Hiroshi
Three new mud dragons, Echinoderes gama, E. kajiharai and E. uozumii (Phylum Kinorhyncha), were discovered from the Daidokutsu cave in Iejima Island, Okinawa, Japan. ...

Marine cave species among the 10 remarkable new marine species from 2019

Added on: 2020-03-19 14:10:40 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
The bioluminescent brittle star Ophiopsila xmasilluminans which was recently discovered living in a marine cave on Christmas Island, NW Australia, was included in the annual list of the top-ten marine species described by researchers during the year 2019, that was released by the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) to coincide with World Taxonomist Appreciation day - March 19th! ...

WoRCS in the 14th ICZEGAR Congress (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Added on: 2019-06-30 22:13:33 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
The WoRCS initiative was presented in the 14th International on the Zoogeography and Ecology of Greece and Adjacent Regions (ICZEGAR) in Thessaloniki, Greece (27-30 June 2019) ...

WoRCS in the 5th European Conference on Scientific Diving (Sopot, Poland)

Added on: 2019-05-06 17:43:14 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
The WoRCS initiative was presented to the 5th European Conference on Scientific Diving in Sopot, Poland (24-27 April 2019). ...

4th International Symposium on Anchialine Ecosystems

Added on: 2018-09-17 18:02:09 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
Join us in Lanzarote, 1-7 October 2018 ...

Special volume on Deep Sea & Cave sponges

Added on: 2018-09-17 18:00:15 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
Special volume dedicated to Klaus Rützler and Jean Vacelet ...

WoRCS in the 10th World Sponge Conference (Galway, Ireland)

Added on: 2018-09-17 17:53:55 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS): a tool for evaluating sponge diversity in marine caves and anchialine systems of the world ...

4th International Symposium on Anchialine Ecosystems

Added on: 2018-01-12 15:20:30 by Martínez García, Alejandro
Join us in Lanzarote, 1-7 October 2018 ...

WoRCS in the 22nd International Congress of Zoology in Okinawa, Japan November 15 - 19, 2016

Added on: 2016-11-29 17:17:57 by Martínez García, Alejandro
The WoRCS initiative was presented to the 22nd International Congress of Zoology in Onna Village, Okinawa, Japan (15-19 November 2016) ...

WoRCS in the White Sea Biological Station (WSBS), Russia

Added on: 2016-10-04 00:15:17 by Martínez García, Alejandro
Last week (23 September 2016), the WoRCS initiative was presented at the White Sea Biological Station by Alejandro Martínez. ...

WoRCS Project Report published in the open access journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO)

Added on: 2016-09-14 00:58:53 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
The report of the first Editor Workshop of the WoRCS initiative (22-25 February 2016, Oostende, Belgium), co-authored by the WoRCS Editor Group and the WoRMS Data Management Team, was published today in the open access journal Research Ideas and Outcomes (RIO). ...

WoRCS in the 1st Congresso Nazionale Congiunto SITE-UZI-SIB (Italy)

Added on: 2016-09-12 19:09:10 by Martínez García, Alejandro
Last week (30 August-2 September 2016) the WoRCS initiative was presented to the 1st Congresso Nazionale Congiunto SITE-UZI-SIB "Biodiversity: concepts, new tools and future challenges" in Milano, Italy. ...

WoRCS in the 16th International Meiofauna Conference (IsIMCo)

Added on: 2016-07-09 15:46:18 by Martínez García, Alejandro
Last week (3-8 July 2016) the WoRCS initiative was presented to the 16th International Meiofauna Conference (IsIMCo) ...

WoRCS in the Catalogue of Life Symposium 2016

Added on: 2016-04-18 22:54:37 by Gerovasileiou, Vasilis
On April 14, the WoRCS initiative was presented in the Catalogue of Life Symposium 2016 ...

WoRCS editors got off to a flying start!

Added on: 2016-02-29 10:23:31 by Dekeyzer, Stefanie
On February 22-25, eight experts on marine and anchialine cave faunas gathered at the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), host institute of the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS), for the first editor workshop of the World Register of marine Cave Species (WoRCS). ...

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