New Species Archives - Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

POSTED ON September 30, 2020 BY Aw Jeanice

A Gem from the Mangroves of Kerala, India: New Tree-climbing Crab Species

This section first appeared in NUS Research News on 30 September 2020. A new species of tree-spider crab, Leptarma biju, has been uncovered from the mangroves in Kerala, India, by researchers from the University of Kerala and the NUS Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum (LKCNHM). The discovery was described in the journal Crustaceana on

POSTED ON July 27, 2020 BY Aw Jeanice

SJADES 2018: Treasures from the Deep

Of Giant Significance A new species of deep-sea giant isopod, which was named Bathynomus raksasa, has been described by researchers from NUS and the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). It is the first time that the genus Bathynomus has been collected in Indonesian waters and is also one of the largest known to science. Marine

POSTED ON May 4, 2020 BY Peixuan Cai

The Anthony J. Whitten (1953–2017) Memorial Issue

“In the last 10 days I’ve been told that two beetles have been named after me, something I find very flattering. … One is a blind, long-legged cave-restricted beetle, and the other is a dung beetle. But before you scoff too loudly, remember that in Ancient Egypt the dung beetles or scarabs were objects of

POSTED ON January 17, 2019 BY Clarisse Tan

Visiting Scientist Feature: Mr. Hirozumi Kobayashi

This week, we welcomed our first research visitor for the year – Mr. Hirozumi Kobayashi! It’s his first visit to LKCNHM, and he came with Dr. Tohru Naruse, who is an old friend of the museum. 🙂 Mr. Hirozumi Kobayashi (left), with Prof. Peter Ng (middle), and Dr. Tohru Naruse (right) in the LKCNHM research

POSTED ON October 3, 2018 BY Clarisse Tan

Visiting Scientist Feature: Ms. Conni Sidabalok

We’re back yet again with another visiting scientist feature – this time, on Ms. Conni Sidabalok from the Research Center for Biology, Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), in Cibinong, Indonesia. Ms. Sidabalok was here to sort and examine marine isopod specimens collected from the SJADES 2018 expedition. During her 3-week visit, she examined marine isopods

POSTED ON June 13, 2018 BY Clarisse Tan

The Road to RIMBA (IV) – In the Field

This post is the last of a four-part series documenting the inaugural RIMBA-Sarawak project expedition. View of Sungai Engkari from the landing point at Nanga Segerak Field Station. Photo credit: LKCNHM. After an exhilarating journey on wheels and longboat, the LKCNHM team have reached the Nanga Segerak Field Station. This is where the actual work

POSTED ON March 19, 2018 BY Clarisse Tan

Visiting Scientists Feature: Students from the Iligan Institute of Technology

Over two weeks following the CNY holidays, the LKCNHM research lab was ablaze with the enthusiasm and lively chatter from a group of graduate students from the Iligan Institute of Technology, Mindanao State University, in the Philippines. The exuberant group of four—Ms. Meriam M. Rubio, Ms. Ziljih S. Molina, Mr. Jemateo B. Neri, and Ms.

POSTED ON November 27, 2017 BY Clarisse Tan

Visiting Scientists Feature – Entomologist Edition

After the previous mammologist and carcinologist features, we are back with a feature on visiting entomologists! Our guests this time were a trio of dipterists: Dr. Keith Bayless from the California Academy of Sciences, as well as Dr. Dalton de Souza Amorim and Dr. Vera Cristina Silva from Sao Paulo State University. They were here to

POSTED ON November 10, 2017 BY Clarisse Tan

Research Highlights – Singapore Swamp Skink (New Species)

For the past two decades, herpetologists had been unsure about the taxonomic status of a diminutive freshwater swamp-dwelling skink from Singapore. It had been known as ‘Sphenomorphus sp.’, and then as ‘Tytthoscincus cf. sibuensis’, as it resembles Tytthoscincus sibuensis from neighbouring Johor in Malaysia. However, latest research published in the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (click

POSTED ON September 18, 2017 BY museum_admin

Visiting Scientist Feature: Dr. Jan-Frits Veldkamp

Recently, we hosted Dr. Jan-Frits Veldkamp from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center, Leiden. Dr. Veldkamp is a botanist with a research focus on the grasses of Southeast Asia, with a career that has spanned over 50 years. He was here to examine grass specimens in the Singapore University Herbarium (SINU), as part of the research for a