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"Polychaeta:
Nereididae – nymphs of the sea"
Chris
Glasby
Museum & Art Gallery of the Northern Territory
Darwin, Australia
Thursday,
27th November 2003: 4.00pm - 5.00pm
Seminar
Room 2
Blk S2 Level 4, Department of Biological Sciences
The National University of Singapore
Science Drive 4
Visitors
may park at Carpark 10
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Host:
A/P Peter Ng
About
the talk
Nereididae are one of the most diverse and common of all polychaete
families. They constitute a significant part of the marine invertebrate
fauna, especially in intertidal regions and shallow water benthos, and
they are an important group in the diet of shore birds and of many marine
and estuarine fishes. Larger species of some genera, e.g. Perinereis,
are farmed or harvested for bait and as food in mariculture, and others
(e.g. Nereis, Platynereis) belong to the invertebrate fouling community,
and are therefore potentially translocated by human activities (e.g.
shipping, oyster trade). In this talk I provide examples of the considerable
morphological and reproductive diversity within the group, which account
for the extraordinary success of nereids in marine, estuarine, and even
freshwater habitats. Also I introduce PARTNER, an international collaborative
project to document the biological diversity of the Nereididae in the
tropics.
About the speaker
Dr Christopher J. Glasby is the Curator of Annelids at the Museum &
Art Gallery of the Northern Territory, Australia. He specializes in
the study of polychaete worms, and is currently involved in several
research projects such as the systematics of polychaetes of Darwin Harbour;
phylogeography of nereids of the West Pacific; and the revision of several
polychaete families occurring in New Zealand. His publications include
numerous technical papers and book chapters on phylogeny, taxonomy and
biogeography of polychaetes as well as interactive information and identification
systems on CD-ROM and on the internet.
ALL ARE WELCOME!
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