World Congress of Malacology 2019

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World Congress of Malacology 2019

Asilomar, California, August 2019

Museum party at the WCM 2019. Left to right: Jenny Neuhaus, Justine Siegwald, Manuel Malaquias, Cessa Rauch

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Manuel Malaquias

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Jenny got the prize for the best student poster presentation

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Cessa Rauch

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Justine Siegwald presenting her research work on Scaphandridae snails

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Manuel Malaquias

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By Manuel Ant贸nio E. MalaquiasPublished: 16.10.2019

This year the World Congress of Malacology took place at the Asilomar conference grounds in Pacific Grove, Monterey between 11鈥�16 of August 2019. About 300 delegates participated in the event this time听chaired by听Terrence Gosliner from the California Academy of Sciences. Four delegates from the Departement of Natural History, University Museum of Bergen (幸运飞艇计划) have attended the meeting and presented听a total of eight works:

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Cecilie G. S酶rensen, Cessa Rauch, Marta Pola, and Manuel A. E. Malaquias. Using molecular tools to interpret the colour polymorphism of the European nudibranch species听Polycera quadrilineata(O. F. M眉ller). (Poster communication).

Jenny Neuhaus, Cessa Rauch, Torkild Bakken, Bernard Picton, and Manuel A. E. Malaquias. The nudibranch genus听Jorunnain Europe with a focus on the听J. tomentosacomplex. (Poster communication).

Cessa Rauch and Manuel A. E. Malaquias. Sea slugs of Southern Norway; an example of citizens contributing to science. (Oral communication).

Conxita Avila, Juan Moles,听and Manuel A. E. Malaqu铆as.听Diving in the cold South: The challenging biology and ecology of Antarctic heterobranchs. (Oral communication).

Justine Siegwald, Trond R. Oskars, and Manuel Ant贸nio E. Malaquias.听First global phylogeny of the deep-sea gastropod genus听Scaphanderreveals higher diversity, a possible need for generic revision and polyphyly across oceans. (Oral communication).

Trond R. Oskarsand听Manuel Ant贸nio E. Malaquias.听Phylogeny and diversity of the Indo-West Pacific gastropods听Haloa sensu lato(Cephalaspidea: Haminoeidae): Tethyan vicariance, generic diversity, and ecological specialization. (Oral communication).

Maria del Rosario Mart铆n-Herv谩s, Leila Carmona, Manuel Ant贸nio E. Malaqu铆as, Patrick J. Krug, Terrence Goslinerand J. Lucas Cervera.听Integrative systematics of the genus听ThuridillaBergh, 1872 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) reveals a cryptic radiation of polymorphic sea slug species. (Oral communication).

Yara Tibiri莽谩, Manuel Ant贸nio E. Malaquias, Marta Pola, Terrence Gosliner & Juan Lucas Cervera. How the famous nudibranch听Hexabranchus sanguineus(R眉ppell & Leuckart, 1830) has fooled everyone 鈥� preliminary results. (Oral communication).

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