Tiny 1-2 page nomenclature notes behind a paywall. And there's no abstract, no author email. Frustrating. This is not collaborative science for public good. Hey Zootaxa updates how about subsidizing these and making them open access?

Yet another of those minor nomenclature items from Zootaxa updates that are unnecessarily closed access. However kudos to the authors for fixing the error (follows a prior spelling correction back in 2019)

Ever wondered if earthworms are venomous? Check out our new paper to see how deep venom goes in the animal kingdom! With Eivind Undheim and Nick Casewell sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new genus of non-bloodsucking aquatic cave leech has been discovered in the Wuling Mountains of Central China. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/zse.10… #Salifidae

Enucie ?? >> Eunice. WoRMS has the etymology: "Cuvier (1817: 524) states in a footnote that he derived Eunice from the name of one of the female Nereides, stating "Eunice, nom d'une nereide dans Apollodore".

Today is #PolychaeteDay🪱 This stunning illustration is from "Leodicidae of the West Indian Region" by Aaron Louis Treadwell, publ. 1921 by the Carnegie Institution of Washington. #sciart #WorldPolychaeteDay

Phyllodocid polychaete worm. The everting pharynx is crazy. Okinawa.

Belated International #PolychaeteDay with these beautiful marine bristle worm images taken by the scientific staff Amgueddfa Caerdydd #WormWednesday

正面から見たオトヒメゴカイ Hesione reticulata Marenzeller, 1879 です。愛嬌のあるとぼけたような顔が可愛いです。

#WormWednesday Manayunkia (from name of a river in Philadelphia) are notable for their freshwater species. Article is closed access.

#Polychaeta collected during the research cruises TALUD aboard the R/V “El Puma” in the #Mexican Pacific: #Sabellidae and #Serpulidae #taxonomy doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

I must compliment the Chinese submersible "Fendouzhe" team for their recent discoveries in the Kuril-Kamchatka and Aleutian trenches. I never saw anything like this in the 17 deep trenches I visited. Amazing new forms of life. Still more to explore. bbc.com/news/articles/…

August 1, 1744, birthday of French naturalist Jean-Baptiste de #Lamarck, famous as he proposed an early version of evolutionary theory, he also worked on geological problems & proposed a sort of continental drift 🌍 historyofgeology.fieldofscience.com/2015/01/from-c…

A massive achievement. One key to rule them all! Integrating all annelid families + descriptions of all. Congrats to Glasby, Biriukova, Martin, Dyne, Utevsky, & Wilson.

#Parahesione #dudahamra sp. nov., an eye-catching symbiotic worm from the #RedSea, with complementary description and notes on Leocrates giardi Gravier, 1900 (#Annelida: #Phyllodocida: #Hesionidae) #taxonomy #newspecies doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

A #NewSpecies of #Dipolydora (#Annelida, #Spionidae) from deep-water methane seep habitats off Louisiana (Gulf of Mexico), a borer in shells of the gastropod #Kanoia #meroglypta #taxonomy doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

A correction published today. "All mentions of “Fabriciinae subfam. nov.” are replaced with “Fabriciinae Rioja, 1923" doi.org/10.11646/zoota… Family names implicitly exist at all family ranks, same author, once first published. It's not possible to create one again & again.

It's always a good day to celebrate a bristleworm. Our community suspects that this one is the species Glycera fallax. 📷 yolandave_24 on iNaturalist 📍 United Kingdom 🔗: inaturalist.org/observations/3… #ObservationOfTheDay

In memoriam: Mary Kennedy - creator of the Canadian register of Marine Species (CaRMS) & passionate naturalist with a huge number of contributions to WoRMS, OBIS and iNaturalist dartmouthfuneralhome.ca/obituary/mary-… #marinespecies