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Anker,
Authur Alekseev,
V. R.
Amoroso,
Victor
Bahir,
Mohomed
Benayahu,
Y.
Brook, Barry
Chen
Hui-Lian
Corlett,
Richard
Das,
Indraneil
Davie,
Peter
de
Pinna, M.
Diesmos,
Arvin
Dominy,
N.
Fernando,
C.H.
Grootaert, P.
Guinot,
Daniele
Jayne,
Bruce
Karns,
Daryl
Kottelat,
Maurice
Kunimatsu, Y.
Larson,
Helen
Lheknim,
V.
Liao,
Lawrence
Liu
Riu-Yu
Panha,
Somsa
Pollard,
Simon
Rachmatika,
Ike
Rahayu,
D. L.
Schubart,
C.
Huei-Ping
Shen
Siebert,
Darrell
Song
Daxiong
Voris,
Harold
Wu
Sugong
Wasim Ahmad
Zettel,
Herbert
Laboratoire de Zoologie (Arthropodes),
Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle,
Paris, France.
Visit: April 1997
Dr Guinot is one of the most renowned carcinologists
(crab expert) in the world, and during an illustrious career,
she has published some of the most important papers on this field
this century. Her experience is extremely broad, having worked
on the systematics of virtually all major groups of crabs as well
as their phylogeny.
Recently, she has also used spermatozoa structure
and other skeletal features in her ongoing efforts to better understand
crab evolution. Her one week visit to Singapore was a tightly
packed affair, and staff and students of the systematics laboratory
and RMBR benefited a great deal from her insights and suggestions.
She is the author of the most recent reappraisal
of crab classification and helped sort this matter out with workers
here.
During her visit here, her expertise on deep-water
crabs (Homolidae and Geryonidae) was also called upon, and several
papers on these themes are now in press. A paper with P. Ng of
DBS on an unusual cave crab from Irian Jaya was recently published.
The visit was sponsored by a special conservation
grant administered by the National Institute of Education (NTU)
and the Department of Biological Sciences (NUS).
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