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Chantal Conand

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Chantal Conand
Born (1943-04-10) 10 April 1943 (age 81)
Alma materUniversity of Western Brittany (PhD)
OccupationMarine biologist

Chantal Conand (born 10 April 1943) is a French marine biologist and oceanographer.

Biography

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A group of Aquilonastra conandae stars found on Reunion Island named in honor of Conand.

Conand obtained her PhD in biological oceanography at University of Western Brittany in Brest in 1988. Her thesis focused on Aspidochirotida of the New Caledonia Barrier Reef (French: Les Holothuries aspidochirotes du lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie).[1] In January 1993, she joined the marine ecology laboratory (ECOMAR) at the University of La Réunion and eventually became its chief scientist.[2] Her expertise extends to all echinoderms of the Indo-Pacific, but her work has focused on sea cucumbers,[3] but also on other echinoderms of la Réunion.[4] Her other work has included studies of the crown-of-thorns starfish, which preys upon hard, or stony, coral polyps (Scleractinia). She was a member of the scientific committee of the Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association from 2001 to 2004. She has since retired and become emeritus faculty.[5]

Selected works

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Her works include more than thirty books or book chapters and over 100 peer-reviewed articles and reports.[3]

Books

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  • Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture; Chantal Conand (1986). Les ressources halieutiques des pays insulaires du Pacifique. Deuxième partie, Les holothuries (PDF). Rome: FAO. ISBN 92-5-202508-1.[permanent dead link]
  • Chantal Conand (1988). Les Holothuries aspidochirotes du lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie [Microforme]:biologie, écologie et exploitation. Grenoble 2: ANRT.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location (link)
  • Chantal Conand (1989). "Les Holothuries aspidochirotes du lagon de Nouvelle-Calédonie [Microforme]:biologie, écologie et exploitation". Migration et Urbanisation: La Cas de la Côte d'Ivoire. Bondy: Ed. de l'ORSTOM: 393. ISSN 0767-2888.
  • Alessandro Lovatelli; Chantal Conand (2004). Advances in Sea Cucumber Aquaculture and Management. Food & Agriculture Org. pp. 425.
  • Chantal Conand; Nyawira Muthiga (2007). Commercial Sea Cucumbers: A Review for the Western Indian Ocean. WIOMSA Book Series. p. 66.
  • Purcell, Steven W.; Samyn, Yves; Conand, Chantal (2012). Commercially important sea cucumbers of the world. Rome: FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes No. 6. p. 233. ISBN 978-92-5-106719-2..

Papers

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Honour

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Two species of Starfishes are dedicated to her: Aquilonastra conandae[6] et Aquilonastra chantalae.[7]

Notes and references

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  1. ^ "Notice".
  2. ^ Francis, Julius. Western Indian Ocean Marine Sciences Association (ed.). "Prof Chantal Conand"..
  3. ^ a b Chantal Conand (February 2010). "Publications on sea cucumbers by Chantal Conand" (PDF). SPC Beche-de-mer Information Bulletin (30): 55–58..
  4. ^ Conand, Chantal; Ribes-Beaudemoulin, Sonia; Trentin, Florence; Mulochau, Thierry; Boissin, Emilie (2018-09-01). "Marine Biodiversity of La Reunion Island: Echinoderms". Western Indian Ocean Journal of Marine Science. 17 (1): 111–124. ISSN 0856-860X. S2CID 56317211.
  5. ^ "Membres". Archived from the original on 2014-07-07. Retrieved 2014-03-29.
  6. ^ O'Loughlin, P. Mark; Rowe, Francis W. E. (2006). "A systematic revision of the asterinid genus Aquilonastra OʼLoughlin, 2004 (Echinodermata: Asteroidea)" (PDF). Memoirs of Museum Victoria. 63 (2): 257–287. doi:10.24199/j.mmv.2006.63.18. ISSN 1447-2554. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 23, 2008..
  7. ^ O'Loughlin, P. Mark; Mackenzie, Melanie (2013). "Asterinid seastars from the Mozambique Channel (Echinodermata: Asteroidea: Asterinidae)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 3613 (2): 176–180. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.2.5. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 24698909..
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