Dr Claudia Arango - Queensland Museum Staff
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Claudia has been working on systematics of sea spiders (pycnogonids) since 1998. She was awarded a PhD in Zoology and Marine Biology from James Cook University in 2002 with a dissertation on phylogenetics and taxonomy of pycnogonids from the Great Barrier Reef. She received a Lerner Gray Fellowship from the American Museum of Natural History, New York (2002-2004) to work on the systematics of sea spiders and their position in the arthropod tree life, based on molecular and morphological data. Claudia has collected more than 500 specimens of sea spiders from different latitudes and habitats, and has worked with animals from remote places such as Antarctica and deep sea hydrothermal vents. Claudia has authored several peer reviewed publications on the evolutionary history of sea spiders, their taxonomy and ecology and has presented her work at conferences and seminars in Australia, US, South America and UK. Her work is currently funded by the ABRS and she aims to document the diversity of Australian sea spiders and advance the knowledge of the evolutionary history of this amazing and intriguing group of animals. |
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