The Coral Triangle
Subtitle: the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition
By: arranged and edited by Gary C. Williams and Terrence M. Gosliner, California Academy of Sciences
Contributors: California Academy of Sciences; Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition (2011); Williams, Gary C., editor; Gosliner, Terrence M., editor
Publisher: California Academy of Sciences
Published: 2014
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780940228757
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Biodiversity; Coral reef ecology; Scientific expeditions; Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition (2011)
Other titles: 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition
Notes: "Date of publication: April 15, 2014"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword : the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke; title: Expedition participants and logistics / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke; title: From parachutes to partnerships : an "integrated" natural history museum expedition in the Philippines / Terrence M. Gosliner and Meg Burke; title: 2011 Philippine Biodiversity Expedition summary / Richard Ross; title: The three research components of the Hearst Biodiversity Expedition to the Philippines / Gary C. Williams; title: Illustrated key to the shallow-water gorgonians and pennatulaceans of the Verde Island Passage, northern Philippines, including synopses of the taxa and a glossary of terms (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Octocorallia) / Gary C. Williams and Jei-Ying Chen; title: Three new species of Gymnodoris nudibranchs from the Philippines / Vanessa L. Knutson and Terrence M. Gosliner; title: A new species of Myrianida Milne Edwards, 1845 (Autolytinae: Syllidae: Annelida), from Luzon, Phillipine Islands / Patricia Álvarez-Campos, Guillermo San Martín, and Christina Piotrowski; title: A new scaleworm, Iphione malifera (Polychaeta: Iphionidae) from a coral reef in the Philippine Islands / Christina N. Piotrowski; title: Sternaspis piotrowskiae sp. nov. (Polychaeta: Sternaspidae) from the Philippine Islands / Sergio I. Salazar-Vallejo; title: Barnacle symbionts of gorgonian sea fans : description of seven new species (Archaeobalanidae: Cirripedia) from the Philippines / Robert J. Van Syoc, Dana Carrison-Stone, Liezl Madrona, and Gary C. Williams; title: Sea urchins of the Philippines / Rich Mooi and Angelica Munguia; title: Collection, transport and husbandry of the coconut octopus, Amphioctopus marginatus (Taki, 1964), from the Philippines / Bart Shepherd, Richard Ross, and Marisa Avila; title: Two new hemerocoetine Trichonotidae fishes (Teleostei, Perciformes) from the Philippines / Tomio Iwamoto; title: Deep-water fishes of the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition of the California Academy of Sciences / Tomio Iwamoto and John McCosker; title: A gigantic deep-water worm eel (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from the Verde Island Passage, Philippine Archipelago / John McCosker; title: Redescription of Eptatretus luzonicus Fernholm et al., 2013, a replacement name for Eptatretus fernholmi McMillan and Wisner, 2004 (Craniata: Myxinidae), based on the discovery of the holotype and additional specimens from the Philippines / Michael Maia Mincarone and John E. McCosker; title: Six new species of Philine (Opisthobranchia: Philinidae) from the tropical Indo-Pacific / Claire Gonzales and Terrence Gosliner; title: Deep-water lobsters (Astacidea, Polychelida), shrimps (Caridea, Penaeoidea) and a lophogastrid from the California Academy of Sciences' Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition, 2011 / Mary K. Wicksten; title: Collection and preparation techniques of bryophyte specimens in biodiversity inventories / James R. Shevock, Ivy Amor F. Lambio, and Benito C. Tan; title: New ray spiders from Southeast Asia : male and female evidence to define the new Philippine genus Tagalogonia gen. nov. and continental genus Coddingtonia Miller, Griswold, and Yin, 2009 (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) / Facundo M. Labarque and Charles E. Griswold; title: Redescription of the flatbacked millipede Ilodesmus margaritiferus (Gervais, 1836) (Diplopoda: Polydesmida: Platyrhacidae) from the Philippines / Facundo M. Labarque, Veverled A. San Juan, Ireneo L. Lit Jr., and Charles e. Griswold; title: An annotated and illustrated list of the carabid beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Carabidae) from the California Academy of Sciences' 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / David H. Kavanaugh, Victor G. Smith, and Michael Krasnobrod; title: The dangerously venomous snakes of the Philippine Archipelago, with identification keys and species accounts / Alan E. Leviton, Rape M. Brown, and Cameron D. Siler; title: How expeditions drive clinical research / Matthew Lewin; title: The education log of the 2011 Hearst Philippine Biodiversity Expedition / Meg Burke and Roberta Brett; title: Epilogue / Gary C.Williams; title: Index / prepared by A.E. Leviton.