Keywords:
Mollusca
Taxonomy
Zoological Museum
Gastropoda
Indo-Pacific Region
Biogeography
Mediterranean Sea
malacology
Research and didactic fields: Zoology, Marine biology,
malacology, scientific museology
The research field relates primarily to the systematics and
biogeography of molluscs. The aim is to contribute to the knowledge
of the deep molluscs of the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and, more
generally, of the Indo-Pacific area, in an attempt to improve of
the knowledge of these poorly known faunas to understand the
biogeographic and phylogenetic relationships with current and
fossil faunas in these areas. Current research can count of
material collected, in part by the author, during several
oceanographic cruises in the Mediterranean Sea, Red Sea and
Indo-Pacific. For a better understanding of the faunistic
framework, I started new collaborations with the Museum of Natural
History in Paris. The morphological analysis of the samples is
predominantly by electron microscopy, but we have also started new
lines of research in biomolecular analyses.
