💚🧡💙 Engage in raising #taxonomy awareness towards the #TETTRIsEU Taxonomy Recognition Day! Here you go and... #NameItToSaveIt! 👇 Know more here: tettris.eu/trd/

Cutthroat eels are a deepwater group of eels (family Synaphobranchidae); depicted here are larvae (leptocephali) of the subfamily Ilyophinae. Common name comes from the distinctive appearance of the gill openings, which merge into a single slit along their throats in adults.

#Holopelagic #Annelida from the #RedSea off the Central #SaudiArabian coast #taxonomy doi.org/10.11646/zoota…

Guess how much of the ocean floor humans have explored. Hint: it’s less than 1% - a lot less nature.com/articles/d4158…

Currently in Salammbô, Tunesia (INSTM INSTM instm.agrinet.tn/index.php/en) for the EMODnet Biology Annual meeting, making plans for the 2-year extension period #marinespecies

A new species of the rarely encountered annelid genus Sclerobregma is described from slope depths of the northern South China Sea. Find out more about it here: doi.org/10.3897/zookey… #deepsea #worms #taxonomy

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Meet the great Alexandrella wimdecocki, another new species named after our DMT colleague Wim Decock, who is retiring soon. mapress.com/zt/article/vie…

This unique, very old, and possibly threatened copepod species was just described as new to science in our journal! Read all about it over on the Pensoft blog: blog.pensoft.net/2025/05/21/new…

🎉 OBIS turns 25! From a bold pilot to becoming UNESCO Ocean's global marine biodiversity data platform, OBIS has grown to host 136M+ records, thanks to a fantastic Community of Nodes and contributors. 🎂 Read the stories celebrating this birthday obis.org/2025/05/21/obi…

It's Taxonomy Recognition Day! 🧡💙💚 Our partners are organising events everywhere: 🇧🇪🇩🇪🇩🇰🇪🇸🇫🇮🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇳🇱🇳🇴🇦🇹🇵🇹🇨🇿🇸🇪... Raise awareness about the importance of Taxonomy for Biodiversity and Natural Sciences by participating in the #NameItToSaveIt campaign! 👇 #taxonomy #biodiversity

Within the TETTRIs TNLS project (tettris.eu/3rd-party-proj…), we have added a new ability to also match on the Scientific name Authority within PESI eu-nomen.eu/portal/rest/

🌍 Happy Taxonomy Recognition Day! 🎉 Today 23 May, we celebrate the incredible work of taxonomists who help us understand Earth's biodiversity. Check tettris.eu/trd/ for events all over in Europe TETTRIs #marinespecies

🌊 Lift the anchor, #EMD2025 has come to an end! 💙 A big thank you to everyone who participated, shared ideas and sparked new waves of innovation for our blue economy. Thank you Cork and 🇮🇪 for your hospitality! ⚓️ Mark your calendars for #EMD2026 in beautiful Limassol 🇨🇾

✨Last day to submit your abstract for #LivingData2025! 🕐 Deadline: Today, 25 May 2025, 23:59 (UTC-5) 📍Choose your session 📋 Write a 300-word abstract in English or Spanish 🌟 Submit and join the global biodiversity data community! ➡️ livingdata2025.com/sessions.html

Last Wednesday, we held a vibrant Marine Regions Editorial Community meeting as part of our UN Ocean Decade Action. 🌊🌐 The focus was on the upcoming release of the Maritime Boundaries, leading to insightful discussions and great exchanges, thank you to all who joined! 🙏

Giving Wim Decock – WoRMS DMT member - a rousing send-off: well-deserved retirement awaits! marinespecies.org/news.php?p=sho…

Currently in Rome for the MareGraph General Assembly (27-28 May 2025) with imec Digitaal Vlaanderen CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche UGent maregraph.eu/about/ continued work on marine Linked #OpenData standards

Taxonomic trolling rsb.org.uk/biologist-feat…

Planet’s darkening oceans pose threat to marine life, scientists say theguardian.com/environment/20…