By Kevin Zelnio, on  March 16th, 2010 New Species, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Bathyacmaea, Gastropoda, Hydrothermal Vent, Lau Basin, limpet, Mollusca This is a new species of Bathyacmaea (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Patellogastropoda, Acmaeidae) currently under description by a japanese colleague. I have found hundreds of these individuals in my quantitative collections of chemoautotrophic communities at the Lau Basin hydrothermal vent fields. They reminded me of the Patella limpet I learned about in my undergrad inverts class. Photos . . . → Read More: New Bathyacmaea
Clearly Isaac Hayes drew his inspiration from the limpet Crepidula fornicata for this classic funk soul hit. Crepidula, known as a slipper limpet, is a sequential hermaphrodite. During the same course of life, this limpet will change sex from male to female. The larger ones on the bottom are female while the smaller ones . . . → Read More: Sequential Lovin’: You and Me and You and You
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