PolyCone - Integrated and sustainable regulation of cones in Eastern Polynesia. The principal goals of the PolyCone project were to establish sustainable practices for the utilization of cone snails
in French Polynesia. Funds from the Belmont Forum, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS, France), and National Science Foundation (USA) supported this work. The PolyCone Project was authorized by French Polynesia
and French Polynesia was the supplier of resources used. A short video overview of the project can be seen below.
To achieve some of the aims of the PolyCone project, members of the Duda Lab are characterizing diets, evaluating reproduction seasonality, and determining presence of cryptic species of cone snail species in French Polynesia. This work
includes field studies and collections at locations throughout French Polynesia and laboratory investigations at the University of Michigan.
Field studies were conducted at Huahine in the Society Islands (September 2022), Rangiroa in the Tuamotu Islands (November 2022), Rurutu in the Austral Islands (May/June 2023),
and Makemo in the Tuamotu Islands (October/November 2023). Laboratory investigations are nearly complete. See recent publications from this work in list above.
