A Biodiversity Reference Centre for Antarctic amphipod crustaceans
is in development at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural
Sciences, Brussels, Belgium. This centre includes specialised databases
, reference collections, and assists a network of contributing specialists (the Antarctic Ant'phipodologist Network) who are involved in the taxonomic
revision of the Antarctic amphipod fauna, and the synthesis of its geographic and bathymetric distribution
and bio-ecological traits.
The Antarctic Ant'phipodologist Network is presently composed of the following
specialists:
Dr Gloria M. ALONSO de PINA
= Antarctic Phoxocephalidae
Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales "Bernardino Rivadavia", Div. Invertebrados
Avda. Angel Gallardo 470
(C1405DJR) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Fax: +54 - 4982-4494
e-mail: glalonso@muanbe.gov.ar
Dr Hans-Georg ANDRES
= Antarctic Hadziidae, Liljeborgiidae, Melphidippidae, Pagetinidae, Stenothoidae
Zoologisches Institut und
Museum, Universität Hamburg,
Martin-Luther-King Platz 3,
D-20146 Hamburg, Germany
Fax: +49 - 40-4123-3937
e-mail: hgandres@zoologie.uni-hamburg.de
Dr Denise BELLAN-SANTINI
= Antarctic Ampeliscidae, Didymocheliidae, Urothoidae
Centre d'Océanologie de Marseille, Station Marine d'Endoume
Rue de la Batterie des Lions,
F-13007 Marseille, France
Fax: +33 - 491-04.16.35
e-mail: bellan@com.univ-mrs.fr
Dr Jørgen BERGE
= Antarctic Stegocephalidae
Marine biology,
UNIS, PB156
N-9171 Longyearbyen, Norway
(web page)
Fax: +47 79023301
e-mail: jorgen.berge@unis.no
Dr Charles Oliver COLEMAN
= Antarctic Astyridae, Iphimedioidea, Pardaliscidae, Pleustidae, Stilipedidae
Museum für Naturkunde
der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin,
Institut für Systematische
Zoologie, Invalidenstraße 43,
D-10115 Berlin, Germany.
(web page)
Fax: +49 - 30-2093-8528
e-mail: oliver.coleman@rz.hu-berlin.de
Dr Kathleen E. CONLAN
- Dr Edward A. HENDRYCKS
= Antarctic Aoridae, Corophioidea, Isaeidae, Ischyroceridae, Podoceridae
Canadian Museum of Nature,
P.O. Box 3443, Station D,
Ottawa, Ont., K1P 6P4 Canada.
Fax: +1 - 613-364-4027
e-mail: kconlan@mus-nature.ca - ehendrycks@mus-nature.ca
Dr Claude DE BROYER - Coordinator
= Antarctic Leucothoidae, Lysianassoidea, Oedicerotidae
Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique,
rue Vautier 29,
B-1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
Fax: +32 - 2-627.42.77
e-mail: claude.debroyer@naturalsciences.be
Dr Jose Manuel GUERRA-GARCIA
= Antarctic Caprellidea
Universidad de Sevilla, Laboratorio de Biologia Marina,
Dept. Fisiologia y Biologia Animal, Facultad de Biologia, Apdo. 1095
E-41080 Sevilla, Spain.
Fax: +34 - 954.233.480
e-mail: jmguerra@us.es
Prof Dr Krzysztof JAZDZEWSKI
= Antarctic Oedicerotidae, Synopiidae
University of Lodz, Laboratory
of Polar Biology and Oceanobiology,
Department of Invertebrate
Zoology and Hydrobiology, Ul. Banacha Str. 12/16,
P-90-237, Lodz, Poland
Fax: +48 - 42-678.39.58
e-mail: kryjaz@biol.uni.lodz.pl
Dr Traudl KRAPP-SCHICKEL
= Antarctic Leucothoidae
Pf. Hoffmanstraße, 7A
D-53343, Wachtberg-Adendorf, Germany.
(web page)
Fax: +49 - 22-8216-979
e-mail: traudl.krapp@uni-bonn.de
Dr James K. LOWRY
= key to World marine families
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Australian Museum,
College Street 6,
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
Fax: +61 - 2-9320-6050
e-mail: jimlowry@crustacea.net
Dr Martin RAUSCHERT
= Antarctic Amphilochidae, Stenothoidae
Bruno-H.-Bürgel-Allee, 31,
D-15732 Eichwalde, Germany
Fax: +49 - 30-675-6289
e-mail: Hmrauschert@aol.com
Prof Ichiro TAKEUCHI
= Antarctic Caprellidea
Department of Conservation Ecology,
Agricultural School, Ehime University,
3-5-7 Tarumi, Matsuyama, Ehime 790-8566 Japan (web
page)
Fax: +81 - 89.946.9899
e-mail: takeuchi@agr.ehime-u.ac.jp
Dr Michael H. THURSTON
= Antarctic Eusiridae s.l., Gammarellidae, Valettidae
George Deacon Division for Ocean Processes,
Southampton Oceanography Centre, Empress Dock,
Southampton SO14 3ZH, U.K.
Fax: +44 - 23-80.59.62.47
e-mail: pht@soc.soton.ac.uk
These different specialists are involved
in the taxonomic revision of all Antarctic amphipod species (a long
term objective), each one particularly focussing on one family or group
of families (see on the above listing).
They will contribute to the development
of new, highly needed, conventional and computer-assisted identification tools: the Amphipod
volumes in the series Synopses of the Antarctic Benthos, and a specialised CD-ROM.
The preparation of the first volume of the Synopses is in progress: it
will comprise
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DAUBY - © IRSNB, August 1999
