International Symposium: Phylogenetic, Ecological, and Behavioural Aspects among Cryptic or Semi-cryptic Species of Crustacea

Successfully completed!   11 Oct 2015  東京海洋大学品川キャンパス

• Christoph D. Schubart (Univ. Regensburg, Germany) & Theodor Poettinger (Univ. Regensburg, Germany): Determining the amount of cryptic species and overlooked diversity in freshwater crabs.
  
• Tohru Naruse (Univ. Ryukyus): Recent advancements of the knowledge of crab fauna of the Ryukyu Islands.
• Izumi Yamasaki (Nat. Res. Inst. Far Seas Fisheries) & Wataru Doi (Tokai Univ.)The research history to distinguish two species of Hemigrapsus crabs, H. penicillatus and H. takanoi.
• Aya Miyajima (Suma Aqualife Park Kobe) & Keiji Wada (Nara Women's Univ.). Comparison of life history and social behavior of the two allied varunid crabs Hemigrapsus takanoi and H. sinensis.
• Martina Weiss (Ruhr Univ. Bochum, Germany), Alexander Weigand (Ruhr Univ., Germany), Ahmad-Reza Katouzian (Univ. Tehran, Iran), Alireza Sari (Univ. Tehran, Iran) & Florian Leese (Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany). Global players revised: Assessing cryptic diversity in the genus Gammarus.
• Yuna Zayasu (OIST Marine Genomics Unit). Comparison of molecular phylogenetic relationships between massive corals and pit crabs.

An award ceremony for Dr. Colin McLay (Univ. Canterbury, New Zealand)