Section: Invertebrates non-insects 
Telephone: + 32 - 2 - 769 54 11
Fax: +32 - 2 - 769 56 95
E-mail: dvdspiegel@africamuseum.be

• Systematics and ecology of East African Diplopods
• Systematics and ecology of Echinoderms, especially Holothuroidea
  

• Biodiversity of Kenyan Diplopods (further info)
• Biodiversity of Comorian Diplopods
• Revision of the genus Sphaerotherium (Sphaerotheriidae) (further info)
•  Revision of the family Ondontopygidae (In collaboration with Dr G. Pierrard)
• Systematic of Aspidochirotids holothurians (in collaboration with Dr Y. Samyn)

Projects

• Faunal study of the sea cucumbers (Holoturoidea) off the Union des Comores (further info)
• Sea cucumbers on coral reefs: systematic of Aspidochirotid holothurians (further info)

Publications

• Author or co-author of over 40 scientific papers and articles on systematic, ecology, and morphology of Diplopods and Echinoderms

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