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Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Belgisch nationaal knooppunt voor het Verdrag inzage biologische diversiteits (NKP), meer

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Abundance of Echinothrix diadema and its substrate coverage in the Mombasa Marine National Park and Reserve (Kenya) in September-October 1997, meer
Belgische mariene invertebratencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer
Brachiopodacollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer
Bryozoacollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer
Length, width and weight of Echinotrix diadema and E. Calamaris species sampled in Mombasa Marine National Park (Kenya) from December 1994 to March 1995, meer
Mariene cheliceratacollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer
Neteldierencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer
Raderdierencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer
Stekelhuidigencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer
Weekdierencollectie van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen, meer

A1 publicaties (27) [show]
Sonet, G.; Smitz, N.; Vangestel, C.; Samyn, Y. (2022). DNA barcoding echinoderms from the East Coast of South Africa. The challenge to maintain DNA data connected with taxonomy. PLoS One 17(10): e0270321. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0270321, meer Samyn, Y. (2021). Dr Claude Massin (25/08/1948—04/09/2021), in Memoriam. Zootaxa 5081(2): 223-236. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5081.2.3, meer Samyn, Y.; Sonet, G.; d'Udekem d'Acoz, C. (2021). Exploring the use of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) in the taxonomy of sea cucumbers: a case-study on the gravel sea cucumber Neopentadactyla mixta (ostergren, 1898) (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea, Phyllophoridae). ZooKeys 1054: 173-184. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1054.67088, meer Aydin, M.; Gürlek, M.; Samyn, Y.; Ergüden, D.; Turan, C. (2019). First record of a Lessepsian migrant: the sea cucumber Holothuria (Theelothuria) hamata Pearson, 1913. Zootaxa 4551(1): 94-100. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4551.1.7, meer Filander, Z.; Samyn, Y.; Griffiths, C.L. (2019). Four notable additions to the South African echinoid fauna (Echinodermata, Echinoidea). ZooKeys 831: 71-80. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.831.31381, meer Samyn, Y.; Massin, C.; Vandenspiegel, D. (2019). The sea cucumber Holothuria lineata Ludwig, 1875 (Holothuroidea, Aspidochirotida, Holothuriidae) re-described from the newly found type. ZooKeys 836: 81-91. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.836.29932, meer Samyn, Y.; Vandenspiegel, D. (2016). Sublittoral and bathyal sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) from the Northern Mozambique Channel with description of six new species. Zootaxa 4196(4): 451-497. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4196.4.1, meer Honey-Escandon, M; Arreguin-Espinosa, R; Solis-Marin, A; Samyn, Y. (2015). Biological and taxonomic perspective of triterpenoid glycosides of sea cucumbers of the family Holothuriidae (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea). Comp. Biochem. Physiol. (B Biochem. Mol. Biol.) 180: 16-39. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cbpb.2014.09.007, meer Olbers, J.; Samyn, Y.; Griffiths, C. (2015). New or notable records of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from South Africa. Afr. Nat. history 11: 83-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2305-7963/2015/v11n1a3, meer Samyn, Y. (2014). Return to sender: Hydrozoa collected by Emperor Hirohito of Japan in the 1930s and studied in Brussels. Archives of natural history 41(1): 17-24. dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2014.0207, meer De Clerck, O.; Guiry, M.D.; Leliaert, F.; Samyn, Y.; Verbruggen, H. (2013). Algal taxonomy: a road to nowhere? J. Phycol. 49(2): 215-225. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpy.12020, meer Michonneau, F.; Borrero-Perez, G.H.; Honey, M.; Kamarudin, K.R.; Kerr, A.M.; Kim, S.; Menez, M.A.; Miller, A.; Ocha, J.A.; Olavides, R.D.; Paulay, G.; Samyn, Y.; Setyastuti, A.; Solis-Marin, F.; Starmer, J.; Vandenspiegel, D. (2013). The littoral sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of Guam re-assessed - a diversity curve that still does not asymptote. Cah. Biol. Mar. 54(4): 531-540, meer Samyn, Y.; Smirnov, A.; Massin, C. (2013). Carl Gottfried Semper (1832-1893) and the location of his type specimens of sea cucumbers. Archives of natural history 40(2): 324-339. dx.doi.org/10.3366/anh.2013.0179, meer Samyn, Y.; De Clerck, O. (2012). No Name, No Game. Eur. J. Taxon. 2012(10): 3 pp. dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.10, meer Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S.; Vandenspiegel, D. (2010). Two new species in the phyllophorid genus Massinium (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) with redescription of Massinium magnum. Zootaxa 2399(2399): 1-19, meer Massin, C.; Uthicke, S.; Purcell, S.W.; Rowe, F.W.E.; Samyn, Y. (2009). Taxonomy of the heavily exploited Indo-Pacific sandfish complex (Echinodermata: Holothuriidae). Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 155(1): 40-59. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00430.x, meer Samyn, Y.; Vandenspiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2006). A new Indo-West Pacific species of Actinopyga (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae). Zootaxa 1138(1138): 53-68, meer Kerr, A.M.; Janies, D.; Clouse, R.M.; Samyn, Y.; Kuszak, J.; Kim, J. (2005). Molecular phylogeny of coral-reef sea cucumbers (Holothuriidae: Aspidochirotida) based on 16S mitochondrial ribosomal DNA sequence. Mar. Biotechnol. 7(1): 53-60. dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10126-004-0019-y, meer Samyn, Y.; Appeltans, W.; Kerr, A.M. (2005). Phylogeny of Labidodemas and the Holothuriidae (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida) as inferred from morphology. Zool. J. Linn. Soc. 144(1): 103-120. https://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00158.x, meer Samyn, Y.; Tallon, I. (2005). Zoogeography of the shallow-water holothuroids of the Western Indian Ocean. J. Biogeogr. 32(9): 1523-1538. dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01295.x, meer Massin, Cl.; Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2004). The genus Labidodemas (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida) revisited, with description of three new species and with re-positioning of Holothuria (Irenothuria) maccullochi Deichmann, 1958. J. Nat. Hist. 38(14): 1811-1847. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0022293031000156268, meer Thandar, A.S.; Samyn, Y. (2004). Taxonomy of the monotypic genus Koehleria Cherbonnier, 1988 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Cucumariidae). Zootaxa 652: 1-11, meer Samyn, Y. (2003). Shallow-water regular echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from Kenya. African Zoology 38(2): 193-212, meer Samyn, Y.; Massin, C. (2003). The holothurian subgenus Mertensiothuria (Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae) revisited. J. Nat. Hist. 37(20): 2487-2519. https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930210144334, meer Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). Massinium, a new genus in the holothuroid family Phyllophoridae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida) with description of the new south-west Indian Ocean species M. maculosum. Belg. J. Zool. 133(2): 135-142, meer Samyn, Y.; Massin, C. (2002). Taxonomists' requiem? Science (Wash.) 295(5553): 276-277. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.295.5553.276, meer Bolton, J. J.; Coppejans, E.; Anderson, R. J.; De Clerck, O.; Samyn, Y.; Leliaert, F.; Thandar, A. S. (2001). Biodiversity of seaweeds and echinoderms in the western Indian Ocean. S. Afr. J. Sci. = S.-Afr. Tydskr. Wet. 97: 453-454, meer
Peer reviewed publicaties (12) [show]
Samyn, Y.; Van Goethem, J. (2023). The scientific legacy of Eugène Henri Joseph Leloup (1902-1981). Bionomina 35(1): 57-98. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.35.1.5, meer Samyn, Y.; Van Goethem, J. (2021). Eponyms as scientific recognition to Queen Astrid and King Leopold III of Belgium. Bionomina 22(1): 8-38. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/bionomina.22.1.2, meer Olbers, J.M.; Samyn, Y. (2012). The Ophiocoma species (Ophiurida: Ophiocomidae) of South Africa. Western Indian Ocean J. Mar. Sci. 10(2): 137-154, meer Samyn, Y.; Kerr, A.; O’Loughlin, M.; Massin, C.; Pawson, D.L.; Rowe, F.W.E.; Smiley, S.; Solis-Marin, F.A.; Thandar, A.S.; VandenSpiegel, D.; Paulay, G. (2010). Using sea cucumbers to illustrate the basics of zoological nomenclature. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 30: 33-40, meer O'Loughlin, P.M.; Paulay, G.; VandenSpiegel, D.; Samyn, Y. (2007). New Holothuria species from Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae), with comments on the origin of deep and cool holothuriids. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 64: 35-52, meer Samyn, Y.; VandenSpiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2006). Taxonomie des holothuries des Comores. Abc Taxa, 1. [S.n.]: [s.l.]. 130 pp., meer Samyn, Y.; VandenSpiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2005). Sea cucumbers of the Comoros Archipelago. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 22: 14-18, meer Samyn, Y. (2003). Shallow-water Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) from Kenya and Pemba Island, Tanzania. Studies in Afrotropical Zoology, 242. Koninklijk Museum voor Midden-Afrika: Tervuren. ISBN 90-75894-54-6. 158 pp., meer Samyn, Y.; Massin, C.; Muthiga, N.A. (2001). A new species of Holothuria (Aspidochirotida, Holothuriidae) from Kenya. Ann., Reeks 8 - K. Mus. Midden-Afr., Zool. Wet. 285: 101-110, meer Samyn, Y. (2000). Conservation of aspidochirotid holothurians in the littoral waters of Kenya. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 13: 12-17, meer Samyn, Y.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2000). Annotated checklist of the echinoderms from the Kiunga Marine National Reserve, Kenya: 1. Echinoidea and Holothuroidea. J. East Afr. Nat. Hist. 89(1): 1-36, 2 plates. https://dx.doi.org/10.2982/0012-8317(2000)89[1:ACOTEF]2.0.CO;2, meer Massin, C.; Rasolofonirina, R.; Conand, C.; Samyn, Y. (1999). A new species of Bohadschia (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) from the Western Indian Ocean with a redescription of Bohadschia subrubra (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833). Bull. Kon. Belg. Inst. Natuurwet. Biologie 69: 151-160, meer
Boek [show]
Purcell, S.W.; Samyn, Y.; Conand, C. (2012). Commercially important sea cucumbers of the world. FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes, 6. FAO: Rome. ISBN 978-92-5-106719-2. 150, plates I-XXX pp., meer
Boekhoofdstukken (19) [show]
Samyn, Y.; Vanden Spiegel, D.; Franklin, A.; Réveillon, A.; Segers, H.; Van Goethem, J. (2004). The Belgian focal point to the global taxonomy initiative and its role in strengthening individual and institutional taxonomic capacity for, inter alia, sea cucumbers, in: Lovatelli, A. et al. (Ed.) Advances in sea cucumber aquaculture and management. FAO Fisheries Technical Paper = FAO Document technique sur les pêches, 463: pp. 415-418, meer Thandar, A.; Samyn, Y. (2004). Shallow-water holothuroid (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) biodiversity and biogeography of the subtropical east coast of South Africa, in: Heinzeller, T. et al. (Ed.) Echinoderms 2003. Proceedings of the 11th International Echinoderm Conference, Munich, Germany, 6-10 October 2003. pp. 253-260, meer Bolton, J.J.; Coppejans, E.; Anderson, R.J.; De Clerck, O.; Samyn, Y.; Leliaert, F.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). Biodiversity studies on seaweeds and echinoderms in the transition between temperate southern Africa and the tropical western lndian Ocean, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 338-339, meer Massin, C.; Rasolofonirina, R.; Conand, C.; Samyn, Y. (2003). A new species of Bohadschia (Echinodermata, Holothuroidea) from the Western Indian Ocean with a redescription of Bohadschia subrubra (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833), in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 47-57, meer Massin, C.; Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). The genus Labidodemas (Holothuroidea: (Aspidochirotida) revisited with description of three new species and with re-positioning of Holothuria (Irenothuria) maccullochi Deichmann, 1958, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 107-136, meer Samyn, Y. (2003). Conservation of aspidochirotid holothurians in the littoral waters of Kenya, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 370-375, meer Samyn, Y. (2003). Monograph of the shallow-water Holothuroidea (Echinodermata) from Kenya and Pemba Island (Tanzania), with notes on the holothuroids from the western Indian Ocean, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 186-324, meer Samyn, Y. (2003). Modus operandi, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 37-45, meer Samyn, Y. (2003). Putting the All-Species one-liner "Think big, act small, start now and don't deliberate it to death" to practice, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 376-381, meer Samyn, Y. (2003). Introduction, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 1-36, meer Samyn, Y.; Appeltans, W.; Kerr, A.M. (2003). Phylogeny of Labidodemas and the Holothuriidae (Holothuroidea: (Aspidochirotida) as inferred from morphology, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 138-156, meer Samyn, Y.; Massin, C.; Muthiga, N.A. (2003). A new species of Holothuria (Aspidochirotida, Holothuriidae) from Kenya, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 58-67, meer Samyn, Y.; Massin, C. (2003). The holothurian subgenus Mertensiothuria (Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae) revisited, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 78-106, meer Samyn, Y.; Tallon, I. (2003). Zoogeography of the shallow-water holothuroids of the western Indian Ocean, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 340-356, meer Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). Massinium, a new genus in the holothuroid family Phyllophoridae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Dendrochirotida) with description of the new south-west Indian Ocean species M. maculosum, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 68-77, meer Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). Towards an understanding of the shallow-water echinoderm biodiversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, in: Féral, J.-P. et al. Echinoderm Research 2001: proceedings of the 6th European Conference on Echinoderm Research, Banyuls-sur-mer, 3-7 September 2001. pp. 41-47, meer Samyn, Y.; Thandar, A.S. (2003). Towards an understanding of the shallow-water echinoderm biodiversity of KwaZulu-Natal, Republic of South Africa, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 331-337, meer Samyn, Y.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2003). Annotated checklist of the echinoderms from the Kiunga Marine National Reserve, Kenya: 1. Echinoidea and Holothuroidea, in: Samyn, Y. Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 157-185, 2 pls., meer Samyn, Y.; Massin, C. (2002). Taxonomists' requiem?, in: Samyn, Y. (2003). Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. pp. 369, meer
Thesissen (2) [show]
Samyn, Y. (2003). Towards an understanding of the shallow-water holothuroid fauna (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) of the western Indian Ocean. PhD Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. III, 384 + 1 cd-rom pp., meer Samyn, Y. (1995). Reproduction of two non-commercial sea urchins (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in the Mombasa Marine National Park, Kenya. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 134 pp., meer
Abstracts (4) [show]
Samyn, Y.; Appeltans, W. (2004). Maintaining native levels of shallow-water holoturian biodiversity in the Western Indian Ocean, in: Segers, H. et al. (Ed.) 'Scientific tools for biodiversity conservation: monitoring, modelling and experiments': Proceedings of the 5th meeting of the European Platform for Biodiversity Research Strategy meeting held under the Belgian EU Presidency, 2-4 December 2001, Brussels. pp. 202, meer Samyn, Y. (2002). Knowing and understanding the shallow-water holothurian biodiversity of the western Indian Ocean will even the path for conservation, in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 13 March 2002: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 7: pp. 24, meer Samyn, Y.; Appeltans, W. (2002). Maintaining native levels of shallow-water holothurian biodiversity in the western Indian Ocean (poster), in: Mees, J. et al. (Ed.) VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 13 March 2002: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 7: pp. 42, meer Samyn, Y. (2001). Taxonomy, systematics and faunistics of the Holothuroidea from the Western Indian Ocean, in: VLIZ Young Scientists' Day, Brugge, Belgium 23 February 2001: book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 1: pp. 55, meer
Overige publicaties (4) [show]
Sink, K.; Samaai, T.; De Clerck, O.; Samyn, Y. (2004). A subtidal spree at Sodwana Bay. SANCOR Newsl. 176: 1-3, meer Dahdouh-Guebas, F.; Samyn, Y. (2002). Koraalriffen. Het enige duikparadijs? Duiken (Breda) 2002(8): 42-44, meer Samyn, Y.; Vanden Berghe, E. (2000). Faunistics as an impetus for conservation of sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the littoral waters of Kenya. CM Documents - ICES, C.M. 2000(Mini:14). ICES: Copenhagen. 1 pp., meer Vanden Berghe, E.; Samyn, Y. (2000). The use of databases for conservation of sea cucumbers (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) in the littoral waters of Kenya. CM Documents - ICES, C.M. 2000(Mini:15). ICES: Copenhagen. 1 pp., meer
Thesis (co-)promotor [show]
Appeltans, W. (2002). Phylogeny of the Holothuriidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) inferred from morphology. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 94 pp., meer
Thesis begeleider [show]
Van Hout, T. (1998). Patterns of distribution of Echinothrix diadema (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) in the Mombasa Marine National Park and Reserve, Kenya. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 71 pp., meer

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