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Census of Marine Life: shrimp Deepwater shrimp (Hymenodora glacialis), collected at a depth of more than 900 meters (3,000 feet).

Census of Marine Life

research project
Also known as: COML
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Richard Pallardy
Richard Pallardy received a B.A. in English from Illinois State University in 2005. He was a research editor with Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc. from 2008 to 2016 and worked on Britannica Blog from 2010...
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Census of Marine Life, international collaborative research project, undertaken 2000–10, that cataloged the diversity, distribution, and abundance of life in the world’s seas and oceans. The first of its kind, the census involved 17 discrete projects and 2,700 scientists. Their efforts substantially expanded global scientific knowledge of marine biota and identified groups of organisms and geographic regions in need of further investigation. In 1995 the National Research Council of the American National Academy of Sciences...

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