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Dr Samyn, Yves
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Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen; Belgian National Focal Point to the Convention on Biological Diversity (NKP), more

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Distributed Dynamic Diversity Databases for Life, more

Samyn Y.; Daro N.; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek; Vakgroep Biologie; Faculteit Wetenschappen. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Belgium; (2016): Length, width and weight of Echinotrix diadema and E. Calamaris species sampled in Mombasa Marine National Park (Kenya) from December 1994 to March 1995., more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Belgian Marine Invertebrates collection, more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Brachiopoda collection, more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Bryozoa collection, more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Cnidaria collection, more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Echinodermata collection, more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Mollusca collection, more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences Rotifera collection, more
Samyn, Y., Semal, P. (2020) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences marine Chelicerata collection, more
Van Hout T.; Daro N.; Laboratorium voor Ecologie en Systematiek; Vakgroep Biologie; Faculteit Wetenschappen. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Belgium; (2016): Abundance of Echinothrix diadema and its substrate coverage in the Mombasa Marine National Park and Reserve (Kenya) in September-October 1997., more

A1 Publications (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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more Samyn, Y.; Vandenspiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2006). A new Indo-West Pacific species of Actinopyga (Holothuroidea: Aspidochirotida: Holothuriidae). Zootaxa 1138(1138): 53-68, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more Thandar, A.S.; Samyn, Y. (2004). Taxonomy of the monotypic genus Koehleria Cherbonnier, 1988 (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea: Cucumariidae). Zootaxa 652: 1-11, more Samyn, Y. (2003). Shallow-water regular echinoids (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) from Kenya. African Zoology 38(2): 193-212, more 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, more 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, more Samyn, Y.; Massin, C. (2002). Taxonomists' requiem? Science (Wash.) 295(5553): 276-277. https://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.295.5553.276, more 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, more
Peer reviewed publications (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, more 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, more Olbers, J.M.; Samyn, Y. (2012). The Ophiocoma species (Ophiurida: Ophiocomidae) of South Africa. Western Indian Ocean J. Mar. Sci. 10(2): 137-154, more 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, more 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, more Samyn, Y.; VandenSpiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2006). Taxonomie des holothuries des Comores. Abc Taxa, 1. [S.n.]: [s.l.]. 130 pp., more Samyn, Y.; VandenSpiegel, D.; Massin, C. (2005). Sea cucumbers of the Comoros Archipelago. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 22: 14-18, more 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., more 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, more Samyn, Y. (2000). Conservation of aspidochirotid holothurians in the littoral waters of Kenya. SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin 13: 12-17, more 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, more 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, more
Book [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., more
Book chapters (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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more 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., more 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, more
Theses (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., more 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., more
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, more 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, more 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, more 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, more
Other publications (4) [show]
Sink, K.; Samaai, T.; De Clerck, O.; Samyn, Y. (2004). A subtidal spree at Sodwana Bay. SANCOR Newsl. 176: 1-3, more Dahdouh-Guebas, F.; Samyn, Y. (2002). Koraalriffen. Het enige duikparadijs? Duiken (Breda) 2002(8): 42-44, more 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., more 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., more
Thesis (co-)promotor [show]
Appeltans, W. (2002). Phylogeny of the Holothuriidae (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) inferred from morphology. MSc Thesis. Vrije Universiteit Brussel: Brussel. 94 pp., more
Thesis supervisor [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., more

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