Yves Samyn, PhD's Publications

Responsible scientist for Belgium's National Focal Point to the Global Taxonomy Initiative, Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Brussels, Belgium

Research field: Biological Sciences
Taxonomy of Holothuroidea

Journal Article (13)

Journal Article

Claude Massin, Sven Uthicke, Steven W Purcell, Frank W E Rowe, Yves Samyn (2009) Taxonomy of the heavily exploited Indo-Paci c sand sh complex (Echinodermata: Holothuriidae), 40-59. In Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

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Yves O'Loughlin, P. Mark; Paulay, Gustav; VandenSpiegel, Didier; Samyn (2007) New Holothuria species from Australia (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Holothuriidae), with comments on the origin of deep and cool holothuriids, 35-52. In Memoirs of Museum Victoria.

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Yves Samyn (2007) Taxonomy Battles Poverty. The contribution of Belgium's National Focal Point to the Global Taxonomy Initiative., 1-18. In News Bulletin of the Belgian CBD NFP.

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Jackie Franklin, Anne; Boeve-de Pauw, Jelle; De Koeijer, Han; Peetres, Marc; Samyn, Yves; Schlesser, Marianne; Van Goethem (2006) The Belgian National Focal Point to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 1-14. In News Bulletin of the Belgian CBD NFP.

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Yves Samyn, Didier Vandenspiegel (2005) Les holothuries de l’archipel des Comores, 14-18. In Bêche-de-mer Bulletin de la CPS.

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Alexander M Kerr, Daniel A Janies, Ronald M Clouse, Yves Samyn, Jeni Kuszak, Junhyong Kim (2005) Molecular Phylogeny of Coral-Reef Sea Cucumbers (Holothuriidae: Aspidochirotida) Based on 16S Mitochondrial Ribosomal DNA Sequence, 53-60. In Media.

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Yves Samyn, Didier Vandenspiegel, Claude Massin (2005) Sea cucumbers of the Comoros Archipelago, 14-18. In SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 22 (July).

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Yves Samyn, Irena Tallon (2005) Zoogeography of the shallow-water holothuroids of the western Indian Ocean, 1523-1538. In Journal of Biogeography.

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Ahmed S Thandar, Yves Samyn (2004) Taxonomy of the monotypic genus Koehleria Cherbonnier, 1988 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Cucumariidae), 1 - 11. In Zootaxa.

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Ahmed S. Massin, Claude; Samyn, Yves; Thandar (2004) The genus Labidodemas (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida) revisited, with description of three new species and with re-positioning of Holothuria (Irenothuria) maccullochi Deichmann, 1958, 1811-1847. In Journal of Natural History.

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Claude Samyn, Yves; Massin (2003) The holothurian subgenus Mertensiothuria (Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae) revisited, 2487-2519. In Journal of Natural History.

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Yves Samyn (2001) La conservation des holothuries aspidochirotes dans les eaux du littoral kenyan, 13-19. In Bêche-de-mer Bulletin de la CPS.

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Yves Samyn (2000) Conservation of aspidochirotid holothurians in the littoral waters of Kenya, 12-17. In SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 13 (July).

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