KOUMAC

Type Oceanographic cruise
Ship Alis
Ship owner IRD
Dates 08/11/2019 - 22/11/2019
Chief scientist(s) CORBARI Laure , BOUCHET Philippe , FANINOZ Sébastien

INSTITUT DE SYSTÉMATIQUE, EVOLUTION, BIODIVERSITÉ - UMR 7205 - PARIS

45 rue Buffon

75005 Paris

+33 (0)1 40 79 80 62

https://isyeb.mnhn.fr/fr
DOI 10.17600/18001447
Objective

Our Planet Reviewed is a programme of expeditions targeting the most species-rich and lesser known compartments of marine and non-marine biodiversity (insects, molluscs, crustaceans). Since 2016, the programme has been conducting expeditions on the land, freshwater, coastal marine and coastal deep-sea ecosystems (KANACONO, KANADEEP and KANADEEP 2) of New Caledonia. The marine coastal KOUMAC 2018-2019 expedition is part of this cluster. Its goal is to realize an unprecedentedly thorough inventory of two biodiversity compartments (molluscs, crustaceans) in the coral reef lagoon and barrier reef of Koumac, 25 years after a previous expedition on the same site that had established new sampling standards of the small benthos. The data obtained meet a variety of objectives:

  1. basic research questions in macroecology on the magnitude, richness and species rarity in complex tropical ecosystems.
  2. exploration, discovery and description of new species. The specimens collected - which include digital images of living organisms and tissue samples for sequencing - will be made available to an international network of systematists through the collections of Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. In turn, such data feed research projects on phylogeny.
  3. management and conservation projects through the creation and banking of new data in national (INPN, Inventaire National du Patrimoine Naturel) and international (GBIF, OBIS) databases.
  4. the promotion of education programmes, thanks to an outreach teaching team within the expedition team itself.

The first part of the KOUMAC expedition has taken place between September 2 and Sept. 29, 2018, involving a shore-based party of 45 persons and small boats. It focusing on targeted sampling by diving and intertidally, and deployed a couple of colonisation devices (ARMS, tangle nets) to be left on the bottom for a year.

The second part took place from 28 October to 24 November 2019 on the same site. It involves a shore-based party of 48 participants from 15 countries. It will deploy bulk sampling techniques for the small macrobenthos, and it will retrieve the colonisation devices (tangle nets, ARMS) deployed in 2018.

This campaign allowed the retrieval of the colonisation devices on the outer slope of the barrier reef of Koumac.

Bibliography

Publications

Paul Zaharias, Kantor Yuri I., Fedosov E. Alexander, Puillandre Nicolas (2024). Coupling DNA barcodes and exon-capture to resolve the phylogeny of Turridae (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution, 191, 107969 (10p.). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107969


Goulding Tricia C., Strong Ellen E., Quattrini Andrea M. (2023). Target‐capture probes for phylogenomics of the Caenogastropoda. Molecular Ecology Resources, 23(6), 1372-1388. Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13793 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00831/94254/


Fassio Giulia, Stefani Matteo, Russini Valeria, Buge Barbara, Bouchet Philippe, Treneman Nancy, Malaquias Manuel Antonio E., Schiaparelli Stefano, Modica Maria Vittoria, Oliverio Marco (2023). Neither slugs nor snails: a molecular reappraisal of the gastropod family Velutinidae. Zoological Journal Of The Linnean Society, 197(4), 924-964. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac091


Rodríguez-Flores P.C., Macpherson E., Schnabel K., Ahyong S.T., Corbari L., Machordom A. (2022). Depth as a driver of evolution and diversification of ancient squat lobsters (Decapoda, Galatheoidea, Phylladiorhynchus). Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution, 171, 107467 (19p.). Publisher's official version : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2022.107467 , Open Access version : https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00762/87393/


Rodriguez-Flores Paula C., Macpherson Enrique, Machordom Annie (2021). Revision of the squat lobsters of the genus Phylladiorhynchus Baba, 1969 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Galatheidae) with the description of 41 new species. Zootaxa, 5008(1), 1-159. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5008.1.1


Fassio Giulia, Russini Valeria, Buge Barbara, Schiaparelli Stefano, Modica Maria Vittoria, Bouchet Philippe, Oliverio Marco (2020). High cryptic diversity in the kleptoparasitic genus Hyalorisia Dall, 1889 (Littorinimorpha: Capulidae) with the description of nine new species from the Indo-West Pacific. Journal Of Molluscan Studies, 86, 401-421. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyaa028


Fedosov A. E., Puillandre N. (2020). Integrative taxonomy of the Clavus canalicularis species complex (Drilliidae, Conoidea, Gastropoda) with description of four new species. Molluscan Research, 40(3), 251-266. https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2020.1788695


Thesis using campaign data

Rodriguez Flores Paula Carolina (2020). Biodiversidad, biogeografía y patrones evolutivos en crustáceos (Anomura, Galatheoidea) de zonas tropicales y templadas. PhD Thesis, Universitat de Barcelona. https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00754/86585/