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講者：陳韋仁 教授 (臺大海洋所)

題目：Progress on the research of fish systematics and evolution through the Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos program.

時間：5月25日(五) 15:30

地點：海洋所2樓大講堂
 

摘要：
March 22, 1976, the research vessel Vauban catches the "living fossil" mud lobster Neoglyphea inopinata in deep water off Lubang Island, in the Philippines, exactly from where the Albatross had collected the first specimen in 1908. This spectacular rediscovery becomes the birthmark of the "Musorstom campaigns" which in 1999 became the Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos (TDSB) expeditions. With Neoglyphea came a cornucopia of all kinds of benthic biota which Jacques Forest and Alain Crosnier, the initiators of the program, farmed out to a worldwide network of specialists. Taiwanese partners jointed this program since 2000 and the cooperative activities of both countries became important thanks to the bilateral cooperation research project from MOST and ANR entitled “Taiwan France marine diversity exploration and evolution of deep-sea fauna (TFDeepEvo)” conducted between 2013 and 2016. In 2016, forty years later, the TDSB expeditions have made over 5,000 dredge and trawls hauls for the biodiversity explorations.
Here, I present some progress on the research of fish systematics and evolution through the TDSB. By combining our exploration strategy with some hypothesis-driven studies, we provided a better access to the taxonomic knowledge of the deep-sea fishes, especially with help of modern molecular tools, and better understandings of causes of the pattern of diversity and evolution of the deep-sea fauna.