[Taxacom] some help requested on coral identifications

Wed Nov 22 01:20:18 CST 2006

Hi Steve
This is a good occasion to advertise the service of the DAISIE expertise
registry. You find it at   http://www.europe-aliens.org/
Then go to Expertise Registry

Via Search expertise by taxon you find 17 experts for Coelenterata from
all over the world with details on their geographic expertise etc.

This is also a good occasion to ask experts not yet registered to do so.
With kind regards
Wolfgang 

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species that are actually alien in Europe or may become so. Thus, unlike its
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Nentwig, Community Ecology
Zoological Institute, University of Bern
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[mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] Im Auftrag von Steven R. Hill
Gesendet: Mittwoch, 22. November 2006 05:41
An: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Betreff: [Taxacom] some help requested on coral identifications

I'm a botanist, but I have side interests in many things, including corals.
I would appreciate it if someone could recommend a person or persons who
might be able to identify some specimens of recent and/or fossil corals from
images, please. In particular I am interested in finding out a name for some
recent solitary corals from between  Bohol and Siquior Islands in the
Philippines.  They look so much like the extinct horn corals that it
fascinates me. [and this is just one of the questions I have.]  I simply do
not know anyone working with coral taxonomy, and I would enjoy working with
someone off list, if someone could please send me a note.  Thanks !

--Steve

Dr. Steven R. Hill
Plant Systematics
Division of Biodiversity and Ecological Entomology [DBEE] Illinois Natural
History Survey
1816 S. Oak Street
Champaign, IL 61820-6970

Phone: (217) 244-8452
Fax: (217) 333-4949
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