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				Personnel: Dr. Daphne Fautin - Curator in charge   Graduate students  Undergraduate students  Postdocs  Associates Present Sridhar Balijepalli Andrea Crowther Nicholas A. Philipp Taras Zelenchuk Karina Kervin Lacey Malarky Paulyn Cartwright Allen G. Collins Sam James Past Adorian Ardelean Andrew Campbell Ha-Rim Cha Günter Försterra Vreni Häussermann Susanne Hauswaldt Keith Hunsinger Seth Jacobson Suman Kansakar April Wakefield Pagels Katherine Pearson Dinesh Raveendran Abigail Reft Prabu Renganathan Ganesh Shankaran Kapil Dev Siddulagari Tracy White Dan Atwater Jeremy Bartley Justin Buck David M. Fullerton Jeff Heninng Matt Kost Bryan McCloskey Jane Vander Molen Steve Perry Amanda Schmidt Ryan Schulze Matthew Shipley Thy Tang Bryan Tangney Valerie Cappola Marymegan Daly
				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: The Invertebrate Collection of the University of Kansas Natural History Museum contains 1771 lots, including 122 lots of type specimens, as of March 2008: 1130 lots of sea anemones (Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Actiniaria, Scleractinia, Zoanthidea and Corallimorpharia) from all over the world; 124 lots of medusozoans (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa, Staurozoa, Scyphozoa and Cubozoa) from Japan, United States and Panama; 160 lots of Kansas mussels (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Unionoida and Veneroida); 85 lots of land snails from Kansas and Florida (Mollusca: Gastropoda); 95 lots of South American earthworms and 50 lots of Caribbean earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta); 95 lots of Kansas crayfish (Arthropoda: Malacostraca: Decapoda); 27 lots of tapeworms (Platyhelminthes: Cestoda); 1 lot of a brittlestar (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea); 1 lot of a sea slug (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Nudibranchia); 1 lot of a scaphopod (Mollusca: Scaphopoda); and 1 lot of a Nematoda. (Most specimens are wet-preserved and there are histological slides of some.) Specimen data can be accessed from the link below. 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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