# Chantal Conand

Chantal Conand (born 10 April 1943) is a French marine biologist and oceanographer.

## Biography

Conand obtained her PhD in biological oceanography at University of Western Brittany in Brest in 1988. Her thesis focused on Aspidochirotida of the New Caledonia Barrier Reef (French: Les Holothuries aspidochirotes du lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie). In January 1993, she joined the marine ecology laboratory (ECOMAR) at the University of La Réunion and eventually became its chief scientist. Her expertise extends to all echinoderms of the Indo-Pacific, but her work has focused on sea cucumbers, but also on other echinoderms of la Réunion. Her other work has included studies of the crown-of-thorns starfish, which preys upon hard, or stony, coral polyps (Scleractinia). She was a member of the scientific committee of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association from 2001 to 2004. She has since retired and become emeritus faculty.

## Selected works

Her works include more than thirty books or book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and reports.

### Books

* Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Chantal Conand (1986). Les ressources halieutiques des pays insulaires du Pacifique. Deuxième partie, Les holothuries (PDF). Rome: FAO. ISBN 92-5-202508-1.
* Chantal Conand (1988). Les Holothuries aspidochirotes du lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie [Microforme]:biologie, écologie et exploitation. Grenoble 2: ANRT.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
* Chantal Conand (1989). "Les Holothuries aspidochirotes du lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie [Microforme]:biologie, écologie et exploitation". Migration et Urbanisation: La Cas de la Côte d'Ivoire. Bondy: Ed. de l'ORSTOM: 393. ISSN 0767-2888.
* Alessandro Lovatelli; Chantal Conand (2004). Advances in Sea Cucumber Aquaculture and Management. Food & Agriculture Org. pp. 425.
* Chantal Conand; Nyawira Muthiga (2007). Commercial Sea Cucumbers: A Review for the Western Indian Ocean. WIOMSA Book Series. p. 66.
* Purcell, Steven W.; Samyn, Yves; Conand, Chantal (2012). Commercially important sea cucumbers of the world. Rome: FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes No. 6. p. 233. ISBN 978-92-5-106719-2..

### Papers

* Conand, Chantal (1984). "Distribution, reproductive cycle and morphometric relationships of Acanthaster planci in New Caledonia". Proceedings of the 5th International Echinoderm Conference, Galway: 499–506.
* Conand, Chantal (2001). "Acanthaster Acanthaster planci". Bull. Nat., Hist. & Géo., Mayotte (in French) (5): 26–29..
* Chantal Conand; Pascale Cuet; Odile Naïm; Dominique Mioche (August 2002). "Des coraux sous surveillance". Pour la Science (in French) (298).
* Stöhr, Sabine; Conand, Chantal; Boissin, Emilie (2008). "Brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from La Réunion and the systematic position of Ophiocanops Koehler, 1922". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 153 (3): 545–560. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00401.x..
* Uthicke, Sven; Byrne, Maria; Conand, Chantal (2010). "Genetic barcoding of commercial Bêche-de-mer species (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea)". Molecular Ecology Resources. 10 (4): 634–46. doi:10.1111/j.1755-0998.2009.02826.x. PMID 21565068. S2CID 19614500..
* Purcell, S. W.; Mercier, A.; Conand, Chantal; Hamel, J. F.; Toral-Granda, M. V.; Lovatelli, A.; Uthicke, S. (2011). "Sea cucumber fisheries: global analysis of stocks, management measures and drivers of overfishing". Fish and Fisheries. 14: 34–59. doi:10.1111/j.1467-2979.2011.00443.x..

## Honour

Two species of Starfishes are dedicated to her: Aquilonastra conandae et Aquilonastra chantalae.