DESCRIPTION

Dumai biodiversity research activities are a series of independent research activities from HSE researchers aimed at identifying, inventorying and mapping the variety of biodiversity in Dumai city.

April 2026 Operational Update:

All field activities related to the identification, inventory, and mapping of biodiversity in Kota Dumai are currently status Suspended (Pending). HSE Management has decided to consolidate all researcher resources into the Veritas Research Project to finalize the Veritology Metascience framework. This suspension is necessary to ensure that all species descriptions and biological data to be published in the future have passed through a forensic audit protocol and more stringent organic data verification to avoid the phenomenon of Nomen Phantasma in zoology.

OUTPUT

A NOVA SPECIES AND GENUS OF CLARIIDAE FISH FOUND IN DUMAI RIVER DRAINAGE SYSTEM, SUMATERA

2024

Draft finished: DECEMBER 2023

Nandus silaban (Teleostei: Nandidae), a new leaf fish found in the Jin River, a tributary of the Dumai River, Sumatra

2025

Draft finished: JUNE 2025

Nandus nebulosus (Gray, 1835): nomen phantasma in zoology, a warning about the significance of historical investigations in validation process of older taxonomy nomenclature

2025

Draft finished: July 2025

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