Résultats Des Campagnes Musorstom - Volume 20 -

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Résumé :
Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM is an ongoing series on the deep-sea fauna of the tropical Indo-Pacific. Initially focussed on the New Caledonia region, the series has now expanded to cover other South Pacific islands and island groups, in particular Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna, Fiji and the Marquesas. MUSORSTOM, which rests on an international network of collaborating taxonomists, is the most ambitious ongoing program of deep-sea zoological exploration. The present volume contains contributions by eleven authors from Japan, New Zealand, USA and Europe, and deals with deep-sea corals (1 paper), bryozoans (1), isopod and decapod crustaceans (6), and snake eels (1). The results present new data on the morphology, systematics and distribution of more than 250 species. One new subfamily, five new genera and 60 new species are described. Of broader biological interest are the descriptions of new biological associations, e.g., between hermit crabs and Zoanthidea, and between acrothoracican cirripedes and corals. Carrier shells (Xenophora) were found to incorporate into their shells species of deep-sea corals that have otherwise never been collected by conventional means, which draws attention to the still inadequate sampling intensity of the tropical deep-sea benthos. The bryozoan genus Pseudothyracella, previously known as a Paleogene fossil in Europe and North America, is added to the list of "living fossils", being represented by a new, living species. The MUSORSTOM series is a joint program of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle and the Institut Français de Recherche Scientifique pour le Développement en Coopération (ORSTOM).

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["La campagne Musorstom 9 dans l'archipel des îles Marquises (Polynésie française) : Compte rendu et liste des stations","Cnidaria Anthozoa : Scléractiniaires d'eau profonde sans zooxanthelles du Vanuatu et des îles Wallis et Futuna (en anglais)","Entoproctes et Bryozoaires Cheilostomida (Pseudomalacostegomorpha et Cryptocystomorpha) des campagnes Musorstom autour de la Nouvelle-Calédonie","Crustacea Isopoda : Bopyridae des collections Musorstom récoltés dans l'Indo-Pacifique tropical : Espèces de la sous-famille Pseudioninae infestant des hôtes non anomuriens (en anglais)","Crustacea Decapoda : Révision de Pasiphaea sivado (Risso, 1816) et des espèces qui lui sont proches","Description d'un genre et cinq espèces nouveaux (Pasiphaeidae) (en anglais)","Crustacea Decapoda : Révision des espèces du genre Parapagurus Smith, 1879 (Parapaguridae) des océans Indien et Pacifique (en anglais)","Crustacea Decapoda : Albuneidae et Hippidae de l'Indo-Ouest Pacifique tropical (en anglais)","Crustacea Decapoda: Espèces des genres Agononida Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996 et Munida Leach, 1820 (Galatheidae) récoltées durant la campagne Musorstom 8 au Vanuatu (en anglais)","Crustacea Decapoda : Révision de la famille Dynomenidae (en anglais)","Pisces Anguilliformes : Poissons-serpents d'eau profonde (Ophichthidae) de la région néo-calédonienne (Pacifique sud-ouest) (en anglais).\r\n\r\nThe Musorstom 9 cruise in the Marquesas Archipelago: Report and list of stations (in French)","Cnidaria Anthozoa: Deep-water azooxanthellate Scléractina from Vanuatu, and Wallis and Futuna Islands","Entoprocta and Bryozoa Cheilostomatida (Pseudomalacostegomorpha and Cryptocystomorpha) from the Musorstom cruises around New Caledonia (in French)","Crustacea Isopoda : Bopyridae in the Musorstom collections from the tropical Indo-Pacific: Species in subfamily Pseudioninae infesting nonanomuran hosts","Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of Pasiphaea sivado (Risso, 1816) and related species, with descriptions of one new genus and five new species (Pasiphaeidae)","Crustacea Decapoda: a review of the species of the genus Parapagurus Smith, 1879 (Parapaguridae) from the Pacific and Indian Oceans","Crustacea Decapoda: Albuneidae et Hippidae of the tropical Indo-West Pacific region","Crustacea Decapoda: Species of the genera Agononida Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996 and Munida Leach, 1820 (Galatheidae) collected during the Musorstom 8 cruise in Vanuatu","Crustacea Decapoda: Revision of the family Dynomenidae","Pisces Anguilliformes: Deepwater snake eels (Ophichthidae) from the New Caledonia region, Southwest Pacific Ocean."]