taxonomy Archives - Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

POSTED ON November 15, 2017 BY marcuschua

Snakeheads: bringing order into identification chaos

As the protagonists of a number of horror B-movies snakehead fishes have been portrayed as highly aggressive and voracious predators, capable to hunt down their prey in the water and on land. Scientifically snakeheads are a small group of only 38 recognized species with an interesting biology, whose identification has been notoriously difficult having resulted

POSTED ON September 14, 2017 BY museum_admin

Visiting Scientist Feature: Dr. Evan Quah

A while back, we hosted Dr. Evan Quah from Universiti Sains Malaysia, who was here to examine snake specimens in the Zoological Reference Collection (ZRC). Dr. Quah is a herpetologist with a research focus on the systematics and biogeography of Malaysian herpetofauna (amphibians and reptiles). He is also an Associate Editor (Herpetology) for the Raffles Bulletin

POSTED ON September 5, 2017 BY museum_admin

Short Course: Biodiversity of True Bugs (Hemiptera: Heteroptera) 26–29 Oct 2017 at LKCNHM

Our museum’s bug scientist, Dr. Hwang Wei Song will be conducting a short course on True Bugs with international bug specialists at the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum this October. Dates: 26–29 Oct 2017 (Thu–Sun) Venue: Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, NUS Limited to 15 participants Instructors: Dr. HWANG, Wei Song (National University

POSTED ON August 7, 2017 BY museum_admin

An Eye-Popping Discovery in Southeast Asian Assassin Bug Biodiversity

Two pop culture characters, Popeye the Sailor and Mini-Me from the Austin Powers comedy movie series, are now linked in eternity in circumstances most unusual – having assassin bugs named after them. Paraphysoderes popeye and Physoderes minime are two new assassin bug species that were named by LKCNHM Museum Officer Dr. Hwang Wei Song, together