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				Personnel: Dr. Daphne Fautin - Curator in charge   Graduate students  Undergraduate students  Postdocs  Associates Present Andrea Crowther Sukeerthi Bokka Wendy Eash Karina Kervin Allen G. Collins Paulyn Cartwright Sam James Past Abigail Reft Adorian Ardelean Andrew Campbell April Wakefield Pagels Dinesh Raveendran Ganesh Shankaran Günter Försterra Ha-Rim Cha Kapil Dev Siddulagari Katherine Pearson Keith Hunsinger Prabu Renganathan Seth Jacobson Sridhar Balijepalli Suman Kansakar Susanne Hauswaldt Tracy White Vreni Häussermann Amanda Schmidt Bryan McCloskey Bryan Tangney Taras Zelenchuk Lacey Malarky Dan Atwater David M. Fullerton Jane Vander Molen Jeff Henning Jeremy Bartley Justin Buck Matt Kost Matthew Shipley Nicholas A. Philipp Ryan Schulze Steve Perry Thy Tang Marymegan Daly Valerie Cappola
				Projects: Scleractinian Corals & other Hexacorallians of the Northwestern Hawai'ian Islands   - a computer application that allows linkage of any published name to any other using a lexicon of modifiers that are conventional in taxonomy    Challenger Expedition (1872-1876)   Meeting Presentations  NOPP OBIS grant final report  Tree of Life Project           Phylum Cnidaria (sea anemones, corals, jellyfish, sea pens, hydra)                Class Anthozoa (sea anemones, corals, sea pens)                     Subclass Zoantharia (sea anemones, stony corals, black corals)                          Order Actiniaria (sea anemones) A Survey of the Ptychodactiaria, Corallimorpharia and Actiniaria - Carlgren, O. 1949.  Census of Marine Life  Field Guide to Anemone Fishes and Their Host Sea Anemones  Keys to families of Actiniaria  Static Illustrated Glossary of Sea Anemone Anatomy     Collections: As of November 2009, the Invertebrate Zoology Collection of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum contains more than 2000 lots, including more than 150 lots of type specimens. A strength (with more than 1500 lots) is "sea anemones" in the loose sense (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Zoanthidea, and Corallimorpharia) from all over the world, with notable holdings from the Galapagos Islands and the tropical western Pacific. Several hundred lots of medusozoans (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Staurozoa, Scyphozoa and Cubozoa) are from Japan, the United States, and Panama. Molluscs include 160 lots of Kansas mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida and Veneroida) and 85 lots of land snails from Kansas and Florida (Mollusca: Gastropoda). The nearly 200 lots of arthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) are from around the world, and include many type specimens. The collection also includes nearly 100 lots of Kansas crayfish (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Decapoda), 27 lots of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda), and a few lots of brittlestars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea), sea slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia), scaphopods (Mollusca: Scaphopoda), and sponges (Porifera), plus 1 lot of Nematoda. Most specimens are wet-preserved and there are histological slides of some. Some specimen data can be accessed from the link below. Collections of Kansas molluscs and crustaceans made by or referred to by Leonard are in the U. S. National Museum of Natural History. If you wish to borrow specimens from our collection, please refer to the Specimen Loan Procedure and Policy document. If you would like to deposit specimens in our collection, please refer to the Accession Process document and the Deed of Transfer document.

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