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標題: | The MUSORSTOM-TDSB deep-sea benthos exploration programme (1976-2012): An overview of crustacean discoveries and new perspectives on deep-sea zoology and biogeography | 作者: | Bertrand Richer de Forges Tin-Yam Chan Laure Corbari Rafael Lemaitre Enrique Macpherson Shane Ahyong Peter K. L. Ng |
公開日期: | 一月-2013 | 出版社: | Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle | 卷: | 27 | 期: | 204 | 起(迄)頁: | 13-66 | 來源出版物: | Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle | 摘要: | In 1976, the French research vessel “Vauban” was scheduled to travel from France to New Caledonia. rough the efforts of Alain Crosnier (Director of the Oceanography, ORSTOM), it was decided that the craft take a detour through the Philippines —this became the first MUSORSTOM cruise. e principal objective of this cruise was to find new specimens of the living fossil glypheid Neoglyphea inopinata described one year earlier by Jacques Forest and Michèle de Saint Laurent from a single specimen collected by the U.S. Fish Commission Steamer research vessel “Albatross” in the begining of the 20th century (Forest 1981, 2006; Richer de Forges & Justine 2006; Bouchet et al. 2008). is first French deep-sea cruise in the Indo-West Pacific was a great success for two reasons. Firstly, nine fresh specimens of Neoglyphea inopinata were collected near Lubang island in a very small area (Figure 1A). e detailed description of this only extant species of glypheid contributed significantly to our knowledge on the evolution of decapod crustaceans (Schram & Ahyong 2002). Secondly, the trawls in the Philippine archipelago also collected a very rich benthic fauna including many rare and new species, demonstrating that the exploration of the deep-sea fauna was far from complete.In the last quarter of the 20th century, our knowledge of the deep-sea fauna was mainly based on the results of the so-called “Great Expeditions” of preceding decades. ese expeditions, which took place in the era between the CHALLENGER in 1873 and the GALATHEA in 1952, sampled the oceans on a world-wide scale. ey studied and mapped the geography and bathymetry of the sea, and brought up a totally new fauna, resulting in the re-writing of marine zoology (omson 1878; Bruun 1953). However, despite their many significant discoveries, these expeditions only sampled about 1000 deep-sea stations across the planet. Considering the size of Earth’s oceans, huge areas remained totally unexplored. |
URI: | http://scholars.ntou.edu.tw/handle/123456789/15516 | ISSN: | 1243-4442 |
顯示於: | 海洋生物研究所 |
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