Indonesian Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity: Echinoderms and Polychaete Annelids

107 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 keeping in mind that jellyish have survived many extinction events in history. Experiments with increased temperature will be conducted in Indonesia to determine various direct and indirect efects of temperature on the two organisms. The ield work will be carried out during several ield trips between September 2012 and February 2015. Sampling will take place mainly in Jakarta Bay and Pulau Seribu Islands but may include other locations in the Spermonde Archipelago and Bali. The main goal is to determine how global warming will afect the survival of ish larvae, because this will give important information on population dynamics.

62.1 Ms. Pia Kegler

Warga Negara : Jerman Jabatan : Ph.D. Student Institusi : Leibnitz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology No. SIP : 176SIPFRPSMV2013

63. Indonesian Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity: Echinoderms and Polychaete Annelids

Tujuan Penelitian : Mengkaji keanekaragaman echinodermata, khususnya tripang dan bintang berbulu featherstar serta keanekaragaman annelida Bidang Penelitian : Biologi Kelautan Daerah Penelitian : Papua Barat Raja Ampat Lama PEnelitian : 2 dua belas bulan mulai 7 Oktober 2013 Mitra Kerja : Fakultas Peternakan Perikanan dan Ilmu Kelautan, Universitas Negeri Papua Simon P.O. Leatemia S.Pi., M.Si., Ir. Ricardo F. Tapilatu, M.Sc. Abstract Marine surveys suggest that the marine life diversity in the Raja Ampat area of Indonesia is the highest recorded on Earth. However, important groups such as polychaetes worms, echinoderms and crustaceans were not part of these surveys. 108 Sekretariat Perizinan Penelitian Asing Kementerian Riset dan Teknologi DIREKTORI PENELITIAN ASING DI INDONESIA 2013 We wish to begin to address this problem by beginning to survey the echinoderm and polychaete annelid fauna of Raja Ampat. Echinodermata includes featherstars, sea stars, brittlestars, sea urchins, and sea cucumbers. The Indo-West Paciic region is the region of most echinoderm diversity, though there has not been a comprehensive study of the diversity in Indonesian waters. Polychaetes annelid worms arc also an important and highly diverse group of animals that are generally small and found in marine sediments. There has yet to be a comprehensive study of the diversity of polychaete annelids in Indonesian waters. This Marine Invertebrate Biodiversity project will initially involve six international scientists from four universities in the United States and Sweden as well as Indonesian collaborators from Univcrsitas Negeri Papua. Scientists will collect animals using SCUBA from dive sites located at Kri Island in Raja Ampat, Indonesia. Specimens will be photographed and preserved for scientiic study. New species will be described in collaboration with our Indonesian partners at UNIPA. Specimens will be returned to Indonesia to be kept in an appropriate Museum collection. Biodiversity guides to the echinoderms featherstars and sea cucumbers and polychaete annelids will also be published with our UNIPA collaborators.

63.1 Prof. Gregory William Rouse