Method

Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/

Method
This Database replaces the checklist posted in 1998 at http://biomar.free.fr/. It uses PHP and MySql languages and has been developed with EasyPHP , a free package including PHP/MySql/Apache. For convenience of handling, the data are first entered in an ACCESS Microsoft database (Figure 1). They are then changed to Sql format using MySql-Front software. PHP scripts included in the HTML pages have been elaborated from the examples presented in Rigaux (2001): Pratique de MySQL et PHP.

Feedback
A lot of people have already helped to improve this regional database: correction of mistakes, indication of unpublished field records, addition of overlooked records/references, and transmission of photographs. Any comments, corrections, and collaboration to this work will be greatly appreciated. Please, send your mails to: poupin@ecole-navale.fr

Affiliation
The author of this work is member of the GIS research group at the Institut de Recherche de l'Ecole Navale (IRENav). This work is a part of their research program: GIS application to biological diversity. It was partially supported by the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), and all the specimens collected in French Polynesia have been deposited and registered in Paris MNHN collections. The MUSORSTOM 9 campaign that took place around the Marquesas Islands, in 1997, and the BENTHAUS campaign around the Austral Islands, in 2002, are part of the research program of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), in the South Pacific: Study of marine fauna and taxonomic biodiversity. The Clipperton fieldwork in 2005 was organized by Jean-Louis Etienne 'Fondation Septième Continent' and was financially supported by WWF (France).

Citation of this work
This work should be cited as: Poupin, J., Internet - Database of Crustacea (Decapoda and Stomatopoda), from Central Pacific Islands (French Polynesia, Pitcairn, Easter Island, Clipperton). At http://decapoda.ecole-navale.fr/index.php and http://decapoda.free.fr.

Copyright
All photographs by J. Poupin that are posted on these pages can be used freely, for non commercial purposes, on request at: poupin@ecole-navale.fr. Other photographs are the courtesy of collaborators, identified in the captions. Any usage of their illustrations require their prior agreement.



Since November 2012, this database is updated in CRUSTA database - http://crustiesfroverseas.free.fr/