Citizen scientists discover new ‘snug’ in Brunei forest


A team of citizen scientists in a Brunei forest, searching for slugs and snails. - PIERRE ESCOUBAS

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (Borneo Bulletin/Asia News Network): Teams of citizen scientists on expeditions in the tropical rainforest of Ulu Temburong National Park, Brunei Darussalam have discovered a new species of ‘semislug’.

Working with Taxon Expeditions, they managed to study the specimens, even analysed their DNA, in a field camp in the heart of the forest. The new species, published this week in the Biodiversity Data Journal, has been named microparmarion sallehi.

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