Reference Collection of Polychaete from the Mexican Pacific (ICMyL-MAZ, UNAM)


Reference Collection of Polychaete from the Mexican Pacific (ICMyL-MAZ, UNAM) Marine and Limnological Science Institute – Mazatlan, UNAM Av. Joel Montes Camarena s/n, Fracc. Playa Sur Mazatlán, Sin., México Phone: (69) 81 6680 – 82 5546 Phone at México, D.F.: 5622 5771 – 5805 Fax (69) 82 6133 e-mail: paezos@icmyl.unam.mx
Dr. Michel E. Hendrickx Reners Laboratory of Benthonic Invertebrates Phone: (69) 85 2845 – 2846 – 2847 - 2848 e-mail: michel@ola.icmyl.unam.mx
The Laboratory of Bentonic Invertebrates has directed its research toward the study of communities of marine invertebrates and of salt waters of the Mexican Pacific, at times extending to the fauna of the tropical east Pacific or the east Pacific. Species or groups of species in bentonic and pelagic environment have been studies, emphasizing the communities of Decapods, Stomatopods, Crustacea, as well as mollusks. The information now contained in the database of this collection includes 301 records of samples pertaining to 35 families, 84 genera and 127 species of Polychaete.
Marine and Limnological Science Institute – Mazatlan, UNAM