Goldilocks and the three crab size classes: New paper out this week on coral guard-crabs
Remember Seabird? He was a Ph. D. student in the lab, and is now Dr. Seabird McKeon at the Smithsonian … Continue
Not bad atoll…
The 2014 Marine Biodiversity Workshop on Magoodhoo Island, Maldives This is a busy summer of fieldwork for the IZ crew: … Continue
Team Unionid
Taxonomy is a wily beast. As François discussed in his previous post, keeping up with who is called what can … Continue
Invertebrate Zoology is Nice(ville)
This past weekend we were visited by a group of high school students from Niceville, FL. They have come to … Continue
At last Mookie has a sea cucumber species named after him, let me introduce you to Phyrella mookiei
In 2010, during the sea cucumber taxonomy workshop we organized in Guam, we collected what we thought was a new … Continue
Summer Activities
So what have we been doing all summer. Well…lots of things! Gustav was gone most of the summer teaching a … Continue
Triactis producta
The sea anemone Triactis producta (Klunzinger, 1877) Triactis producta is the only species in the sea anemone (Actiniaria) genus Triactis … Continue
Sunken Secrets of the Bahr Al-Ahmar
This post was written by guest blogger Noah J. D. DesRosiers, a research colleague who accompanied the FLMNH team on … Continue
We’re still here!
Poor neglected blog! It’s been so long since my last post, but don’t worry, we haven’t been slacking off. Here, … Continue
From the field: In the sea, comets become stars.
I’m currently in Papua New Guinea, with John (the Slapcinsky kind) where we are participating to the expedition “Our planet … Continue