Dr Richard Kirby
@PlanktonPundit
Independent Scientist-Filmmaker-Speaker-Guide. Created CitSci https://t.co/Ex5zibpKaO study & wrote https://t.co/R8qULKdf09. Past Royal Society URF and now Ronin Inst Scholar.
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Astonishing marine life cycles. Many seabed creatures start life in the plankton. This late-stage planktonic crab larva, called a megalopa, is about to leave the plankton to begin its adult life on the seabed. (You can see the remnants of the zoea's dorsal spine.)
ZEISS Microscopy
Astonishing marine life cycles. Many seabed creatures start life in the plankton. This late-stage planktonic crab larva, called a megalopa, is about to leave the plankton to begin its adult life on the seabed. (You can see the remnants of the zoea's dorsal spine.)
ZEISS Microscopy
Huge spring plankton biodiversity in my net sample collected off Plymouth UK yesterday. At least: Dinoflagellata, Bacillariophyta, Haptophyta, Arthropoda, Annelida, Phoronida, Cnidaria, and Echinodermata. But what species can you see? ZEISS Microscopy
European Journal of Taxonomy 叱咤過侮離のtapa The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey Paula Rodríguez Flores Rafael Martín Ledo The British Nature Guide Deep Sea News Dr Richard Kirby Amazing video footage of more than 30 morphospecies of crustacean y-larvae from a coral reef hotspot locality: youtu.be/er0mYLswV-c
[ #Zoology ] Taxonomic diversity of marine planktonic ‘y-larvae’ (Crustacea: Facetotecta) from a coral reef hotspot locality (Japan, Okinawa), with a key to y-nauplii ⤵️
✒️ Jørgen Olesen Statens & Mark J. Grygier
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20…
#Crustacea #Facetotecta