The Nekton Maldives taxonomic workshop: Exploring the biodiversity of shallow, mesophotic and deep-sea communities in Maldives

Mohamed Ahusan, Nuria Rico-Seijo, Farah Amjad, Erika Gress, Shafiya Naeem, Toufiek Samaai, Kaveh Samimi-Namin, Lucy Woodall, Paris Stefanoudis
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The Nekton Maldives Taxonomic Workshop took place at the Maniyafushi Research Station in the Maldives between 12 and 23 February 2023. This workshop had two primary objectives. Firstly, it aimed to identify species from biological samples and underwater imagery collected during the Nekton Maldives Mission in 2022. Secondly, it sought to facilitate training and knowledge exchange sessions between early career researchers from the Maldives and international taxonomists. These sessions were designed to share knowledge and introduce fundamental taxonomy concepts and enhance practical identification skills for common reef benthic groups and major zooplankton taxonomic groups. A total of 24 people from 10 different countries were directly or indirectly involved with the workshop comprising nine taxonomic experts, eleven trainees and four organisers. Collectively, we identified 278 biological specimens including potentially undescribed species of hydroids, black corals, sponges and octocorals, 318 morphotypes for underwater footage and zooplankton composition congruent with previous reports from the Indian Ocean Region. Next steps will involve depositing the specimens into a more a permanent facility to facilitate the process of specimen description and knowledge transfer.
Nekton马尔代夫分类学研讨会:探索马尔代夫浅海、中深水和深海群落的生物多样性
Nekton马尔代夫分类学研讨会于2023年2月12日至23日在马尔代夫的Maniyafushi研究站举行。这次研讨会有两个主要目标。首先,它旨在从2022年Nekton马尔代夫任务期间收集的生物样本和水下图像中识别物种。第二,它设法促进来自马尔代夫的早期职业研究人员和国际分类学家之间的培训和知识交流会议。这些课程旨在分享知识和介绍基本的分类概念,并提高对常见的珊瑚礁底栖生物群和主要浮游动物分类群的实际识别技能。共有来自10个不同国家的24人直接或间接参与了研讨会,其中包括9名分类学专家、11名学员和4名组织者。总的来说,我们确定了278个生物标本,包括可能未被描述的水螅类、黑珊瑚、海绵和八栖珊瑚,水下镜头的318种形态和浮游动物组成与印度洋地区的先前报告一致。接下来的步骤将包括将标本存放到更永久的设施中,以促进标本描述和知识转移的过程。
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