For many ocean invertebrates, the first stage of life occurs as tiny larvae in the plankton. The toughness of the planktonic larval life has caused…
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Fishes of Instagram #throwbackthurday
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View More Fishes of Instagram #throwbackthurdayHow the Gastropod Got Its Twist
All snails and their ancestors, the Gastropods, share a common feature. We people with fancy Ph.D.’s in biology call this a synapomorphy, a word derived…
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The larvae of eels and other related species are called small heads or in the fancier Greek, Leptocephalus. The video above should give you some…
View More TGIF: Eel larvaeThe Twelve Days of Snails
The holidays are a time for lists: shopping list, grocery list for the holiday meal, things I must accomplish before the year ends, and Santa’s…
View More The Twelve Days of SnailsSea Squirts, SLOSS, and Sex
Long time readers will know how perverse and socially inappropriate the unseemly sea squirt is. But there is an interesting property of sea squirt pornography…
View More Sea Squirts, SLOSS, and SexFirst New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878
What hid’st thou in thy treasure-caves and cells? Thou hollow-sounding and mysterious main! – Pale glistening pearls, and rainbow-colour’d shells, Bright things which gleam unreck’d-of,…
View More First New Snail Larval Form Discovered Since 1878Chris Mah on Oil’s Impact on Marine Invertebrates
Daniel Brown brought my attention to this Ocean Portal video featuring the Echinoblog’s Chris Mah on the potential impact of oil on the Gulf of…
View More Chris Mah on Oil’s Impact on Marine InvertebratesLife Without Gonads and Toes
The Loriciferans were first described in 1983 and since then around 20 species were described with at least 80 species waiting in the wings for…
View More Life Without Gonads and ToesI have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.
Post by Shawn M. Arellano. Dr. Shawn Arellano is a postdoctoral researcher at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her PhD research at…
View More I have a dirty secret: I am a mussel sex voyeur.