The Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology of China is a research institution and collections repository for fossils, including many dinosaur and pterosaur specimens. As its name suggests, research is focused on both paleontological topics and those relating to human prehistory.
Kunming Institute of Zoology (KIZ) (中国科学院昆明动物研究所), one of the 20 biological institutes under the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), is one of China's first class zoological research institutes, located in Kunming, Yunnan province. The Institute has access to the unique and diversified animal resources of the Eastern Himalayas as well as a wide variety of the species from across Southeast Asia, the southern parts of Yunnan province being part of the Indo-Burma biodiversity hotspot. KIZ focuses on life science research, with research groups including systematic zoology, conservation biology, cytology, molecular biology, genome evolution, reproductive and developmental biology, neurobiology, immunological biology on important virus disease, zoological toxicology and primate biology.
The inshore hagfish is a hagfish found in the Northwest Pacific, from the Sea of Japan and across eastern Japan to Taiwan. It has six pairs of gill pouches and gill apertures. These hagfish are found in the sublittoral zone. They live usually buried in the bottom mud and migrate into deeper water to spawn. The inshore hagfish is the only member of the Myxinidae family having a seasonal reproductive cycle.
Haloa japonica, common name the Japanese bubble snail, is a species of sea snail or bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusc in the family Haminoeidae, one of the families of bubble snails.
Wenying Zhuang is a Chinese mycologist. She is known for her contributions to the study of species diversity and phylogeny of Ascomycetes.
The Camptandriidae are a family of crabs, with 38 species in 21 genera:
Paracleistostoma depressum is an Asian-endemic species of crab common in Southeast Asia. They are found in Singapore, the west coast of the Malay Peninsula and the Hainan and Fujian provinces in of China. They are found in seawater and the mud area in brink water.
Platynosomum capranum is a species of trematodes found mainly in Kunming, Mainland China. It is the 4th species of Platynosomum found to be parasitic of mammals and the first species in this genus recorded from China.
Moellendorffia is a gastropod mollusc genus of the family Camaenidae. Members of this genus appear only in East Asia, spanning north from Japan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Indonesia.
The Dongping dialect is a Mandarin Chinese dialect spoken in Dongping County in Shandong province, China.
Hexacontium pachydermum is a species in the genus Hexacontium of the family Actinommidae. It was described by Eugen Honoratius Jørgensen in 1899.
Aplustrum amplustre, also known as royal paper bubble, ship’s flag shell, swollen bubble, is a species of sea snails, bubble snails, marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusks in the family Aplustridae.
Phintella abnormis is a spider species of the family Salticidae.
Takifugu obscurus or the obscure pufferfish is a species of euryhaline, anadromous pufferfish first described by T. Abe in 1949. It has been categorized by the IUCN as a least-concern species globally since 2014; in South Korea, it is however classified as an endangered species due to overfishing of its endemic populations. The Catalogue of Life lists no subspecies of Takifugu obscurus. The species prefers deeper, clearer areas of brackish and fresh water, and is found in estuaries, as well as rivers and tributaries thereof such as the South Korean rivers Geum, Han, and Imjin, or the Tamsui River. The species is endemic to North and South Korea, the Sea of Japan, and the East and South China Seas. Uses of Takifugu obscurus include human consumption, use in animal testing, and owning specimens as pets. As with most species of pufferfish, several organs of Takifugu obscurus contain tetrodotoxin, making it potentially poisonous if not prepared safely by trained persons.
Jin Hongguang is a Chinese physical chemist, fellow of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Polygonatum arisanense is a flowering plant in the family Asparagaceae. The species is endemic to Taiwan and is found in areas around 1,500 meters in elevation. Its Chinese common name and the species epithet refer to the Alishan Range.
Dopasia hainanensis, the Hainan glass lizard, is a species of lizard of the Anguidae family. It is endemic to Hainan Island in China.
Fei Liang was a Chinese herpetologist.
Yang Weicai is a Chinese plant molecular geneticist, and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. They are currently the director and researcher of the Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and vice chairman of the Chinese Genetics Society.
