World Congress of Malacology Antwerp ... - Unitas Malacologica

THURSDAY 19 JULY
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Gary Rosenberg
09:00 – 09:20 Terrestrial malacofauna of Central Asia: results of more than 150 years of
exploration
Muratov, Igor V.; Sysoev Alexander, V.
09:20 – 09:40 Inventories for the Dark Continent: compiling African checklists
Seddon, Mary; Rowson, Ben; Tattersfield, Peter; Lange, Charles; Ngereza,
Christine
09:40 – 10:00 Exploring biodiversity in caves and limestone: an open window on
Polynesia's lost paradise
Gargominy, Olivier; Fontaine, Benoît
10:00 – 10:20 Updating the gastropod fauna of the Northeastern Pacific
McLean, James H.
10:20 – 10:40 Bivalvia: Inventories and taxonomy in the Indian Ocean
Oliver, Graham P.
10:40 – 11:10 Tea/Coffee
Lecture hall T 103
INVENTORYING THE MOLLUSCAN FAUNA OF THE WORLD: FRONTIERS
AND PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Graham Oliver
11:10 – 11:30 Is anything left to be discovered in the malacofauna of Western Europe?
Gofas, Serge
11:30 – 11:50 Malacological studies in a mega-diverse and poor country as Brazil
Simone, Luiz Ricardo L.
11:50 – 12:10 The need for an inventory of the world’s molluscan fauna: a conservation
perspective
Seddon, Mary; Cuttelod, Annabelle; Darwall, Will; Stuart, Simon
12:10 – 12:30 Towards a global taxonomic authority list for the Mollusca
Rosenberg, Gary
12:30 – 12:50 Expanding museum collections by indirect field work
Callomon, Paul
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