Simon Clavier
8 Papers
Simon Clavier is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Species complex. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications.
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Papers
Cyclestheria hislopi (Crustacea: Branchiopoda): a group of morphologically cryptic species with origins in the Cretaceous.
Martin Schwentner,Simon Clavier,Martin Fritsch,Jørgen E. Olesen,Sameer M. Padhye,Brian V. Timms,Brian V. Timms,Stefan Richter +7 more
TL;DR: Today's circumtropic distribution of Cyclestheria may be best explained by a combination of Gondwana vicariance and later dispersal across Asia and Australia when the tectonic plates of the two continents drew closer in the early Miocene.
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The Saucer Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera: Naucoridae) of French Guiana
Robert W. Sites,Simon Clavier,William D. Shepard +2 more
- 31 Jan 2024
TL;DR: A 14-year survey in French Guiana collected 16 Naucoridae species, including 10 new country records, with 6 species considered rare, and a comprehensive checklist, annotated list, and identification key are provided for these aquatic insects.
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A Late Pleistocene coastal ecosystem in French Guiana was hyperdiverse relative to today.
Pierre Antoine,Linde N Wieringa,Sylvain Adnet,Orangel Aguilera,Stéphanie Bodin,Stephen Cairns,C. Conejeros-Vargas,Jean-Jacques Cornée,Žilvinas Ežerinskis,Jan Fietzke,Natacha Gribenski,Sandrine Grouard,Austin Hendy,Carina Hoorn,Renaud Joannes-Boyau,Martin R Langer,Javier Luque,Laurent Marivaux,Pierre Moissette,Kees Nooren,Frédéric Quillévéré,Justina Šapolaitė,Matteo Sciumbata,Pierre G. Valla,Nina H. Witteveen,Alexandre Casanova,Simon Clavier,Philibert Bidgrain,Marjorie Gallay,Mathieu Rhoné,Arnaud Heuret +30 more
TL;DR: A 130,000-year-old coastal ecosystem in French Guiana was hyperdiverse, with 230 species, including endangered ones, and stronger affinities with Caribbean waters, challenging current understanding of tropical Atlantic community structuring.
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Water mites from French Guiana, with the description of 14 new species (Acari: Hydrachnidia)
TL;DR: This paper is the second paper dealing with water mites from French Guiana and the following new species are described: Rhynchohydracarus mirabilis Smit and Pešić sp.
First report of two little-known aquatic insects in French Guiana and notes on their habitat (Coleoptera, Elmidae; Hemiptera, Potamocoridae)
TL;DR: Specimens of Pagelmis Spangler, 1981, and Potamocoris Hungerford, 1941, were collected in French Guiana during a hydrobiological survey in a protected area shared between the La Trinité National Reserve and the Amazonian National Park.