Official Twitter account of NMNH Invertebrate Zoology! Mollusks! Worms! Crustaceans! Cnidarians! Echinoderms. Legal: si.edu/Termsofuse
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16 Jan 2025
WHOA! Congrats to our very own Dr. Quattrini !!
16 Jan 2025
Congrats to curators Dr. Andrea Quattrini and Dr. Sabrina Sholts for receiving the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE). PECASE is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on outstanding scientists and engineers early in their careers.
ALT Dr. Andrea Quattrini smiles at the camera.
ALT Dr. Sabrina Sholts smiles into the camera.
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20 Nov 2024
NEW (and possibly last) monograph by our very own coral expert Steve Cairns! New Stylasterids from southwest Indian Ocean! (and cool account of chirostylids as well!)
20 Nov 2024
[#new] ๐ Just published in series #mรฉmoires of @le_museum โคต
โก๏ธ ๐ฌ๐ง Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos volume 34
Deep-Sea Chirostylids and Stylasterids from South-West Indian Ocean
โ Keiji BABA & Stephen D. CAIRNS
๐ sciencepress.mnhn.fr/
#deepsea #crustaceans
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25 Oct 2024
Stories featuring Dr. Anna Phillips! @Annalida500 as well as new ribbon worm stories! #wormwednesday si.edu/stories/discovering-wโฆ
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24 Oct 2024
#SPONGETHURSDAY A new feature on @Stockton_edu student Gabrielle! engaging sponge biodiversity with Drs. @csout0 Camilla Alves Souto and Cristiana Castello-Branco
stockton.edu/sciences-math/eโฆ
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23 Oct 2024
It would be worth looking at this re-description of Arabella iricolor by @tldarbyshire and @jyothikara tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1โฆ #WormWednesday
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23 Oct 2024
#WormWednesday
๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (Montagu, 1804)
Japanese name: Seguro-isome
ใใใใใใใใใปใฐใญใคใฝใก
Captured in Tokyo Bay. I can't belive that they belongs to Eunicida.
ใคใฝใก็ฎใจใฏๆใใชใใใใใๅค้จๅฝขๆ
ใ็นๅพด็ใชๅคๆฏ้กใไฝ้ท10 cmใใใใ
ALT ๐ด๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ (Montagu, 1804)
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15 Feb 2017
Since there are no taxis underwater, this Antarctic anemone hitches a free ride on the back of a sea snail. #LoveAntarcticInvertebrates
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23 Oct 2024
ใใใฐใใฏใ้คใ้ฃในใฆๆบ่ถณๆฐใชใขใใชใซใณใญใใฏใทใฅใชใณใใงใใใใใฒใจใใใงใ่ฟใใใ1ๅนดใๅฐ็ฟใซ้คใ่ฝใจใ้คใใๆนๅผใงไปใฎใจใใ้ ่ชฟใใใงใใ
Vampire shrimp in my tank.
#ใจใ #shrimp #ใขใฏใขใชใฆใ
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23 Oct 2024
[#flatworms] The polyclads (Platyhelminthes: Polycladida) from the Tropical Eastern Pacific: Commented checklist and description of a new species. โคต
โ Mariela Ramos-Sรกnchez
๐DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.962โฆ
#platyhelminthes #leptoplanidae #newspecies #polyclads #WormWednesday
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21 Oct 2024
As marine organisms die & sink, they decompose & slowly build up methane that seeps upward through cracks in the seafloor. Chemosynthetic microbes convert methane into energy to grow. Explore w/us during #ChileMargin2024 Divestreams: youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean
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NEW PAPER DROP from @Zootaxa New ecological observations & surey occurrence from HONG KONG for Asteroids & Echinoids! (email me if you want a copy) This was Coelopleurus feeding on soft corals! mapress.com/zt/article/view/โฆ
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Dr. Allen Collins of @InvertebratesDC! Jellyfish wrangler and NOAA chief of the Systematics Lab-featured in si.edu/stories/eos/exploringโฆ
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Our very own Dr. Allen Collins is featured!! Learn more about his science and the world of jellyfishes! si.edu/stories/eos/exploringโฆ
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1 Oct 2024
Meet Explorisis, a new genus of bamboo coral from the NE Atlantic deep sea.
Named after the Irish research vessel RV Celtic Explorer. Article Open Access.
@DrShmoo @quattrinia
@MarineInst @RVMarineInst
@rtenews @loveirish @IrishResearch @CORExGalway
publish.csiro.au/is/IS24021#โฆ
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4 Mar 2024
OYSTER HAS TETH! Crassostrea growing on denture! #FROMthecollections dredged from Lookout Pt. (off Maryland) poss. 1898? #molluscmonday #molluskmonday
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10 Apr 2017
The lovely #gastropod Murex troschelli Lischke, 1868, USNM 876660 #fromthecollections for #MolluskMonday!
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10 Apr 2017
and we got #Loricifera too! Fam. Nanaloricidae on a glass slide! USNM 1159128 #fromthecollections
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22 Feb 2018
Various lobsters, slipper and otherwise from the dry crustacean collection! #fromthecollections
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23 Mar 2017
#Fromthecollections Buttons used to be made from nacre of freshwater bivalves!
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1 Dec 2015
USNM 904601, an interesting but apparently unidentified subAntarctic gastropod! #fromthecollections
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