Philippe Bouchet, Peter K. L. Ng, Danilo Largo, S.H. Tan
The Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project (PANGLAO 2004) was carried out between May–July 2004 to document the fauna and measure species richness of an ecologically complex coastal site in the Central Philippines. It involved 70 participants from 16 countries sampling molluscs and crustaceans using a wide variety of methods, viz. intertidal collection, SCUBA collection (hand-collection, scrubbing and suction), traps, tangle netting, dredging, and trawling using a 1.5 m beam trawl. The area surveyed covers about 15,000 hectares (150 km²) of the municipal waters of Panglao, Dauis, Cortes, Tagbilaran and Baclayon. Preliminary estimates suggested that some 1,200 species of decapod crustaceans and between 5,000–6,000 species of molluscs were sampled. This reflects the diversity of the collecting techniques used, as well as the variety of skills of all the participants involved for collecting, sieving, fractioning, and sorting. © National University of Singapore.
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 55 rue Buffon, Paris, 75005, France; Tropical Marine Science Institute, National University of Singapore, S2S, 18 Kent Ridge Road, Singapore, 119227, Singapore; University of San Carlos, P. del Rosario St., Cebu City, Philippines; Raffles Museum of Biodiversity Research, Department of Biological Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117546, Singapore
