From May 11 to 31, I was privileged to participate in the third expedition of the La Planète Revisiteé program in Corsica (France). This set of expeditions, led by the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, in collaboration with the Collectivité de Corse and the Office Français de la Biodiversité, aims to modernize the inventories of Mediterranean taxa by enriching them with digital images and taking tissue samples for DNA sequencing. laplaneterevisitee-corse.mnhn.fr/Sampling was carried out along the west coast of the island in brown algal meadows, encrusting calcareous algal biotopes, posidonia meadows, micro estuaries, coastal lagoons and caves. Molluscs, crustaceans and algae were the main target of sampling. Several sampling methods were used: intertidal sampling, diving (visual collection, suction and brushing) and dredging. The depth range of 0 to 100 meters is explored. The samples were quickly taken to the laboratory based in Porto (Ota), in the municipal exhibition hall. I participated in some of the sampling activities, although my main mission was the sorting of light fractions, where Aplacophora is most likely to be found. During the three expeditions carried out on this Mediterranean island, about a hundred specimens of Aplacophora were found. The solenogaster (48 specimens belonging to at least 15 species), on loan from the Paris Museum, are now in the Kocot lab at the University of Alabama and are being studied. M. Carmen Cobo
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