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Four new freshwater shrimp species are described in the genus Caridina. Learn more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #endemicspecies #fauna

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #panama just came in:

Photis bulla

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/40FE8260-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #PhotisBulla

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#NewSpecies!
New squat lobster from #southafrica just surfaced:

Galathea noboya

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03C13C01-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #GalatheaNoboya

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#OA #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #arthropods #crustacea #lobster #squatlobster

Two new species of Nitocrella (Copepoda, Harpacticoida) from a spring in Loei Province, northeastern Thailand Two new species of the genus Nitocrella are described from a karstic spring in Loei Province, northeast Thailand. They are the first representatives of the genus Nitocrella Chappuis, 1924, described f...

From a karstic spring in Thailand's Loei Province, two new copepod species of the genus Nitocrella.

#biodiversity #karst #newspecies

doi.org/10.3897/zook...

New Research from the Journal of Crustacean Biology 🦐

Just in time for the weekend, the latest update to Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025) is out now!
🔗 Read the full articles here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3
Happy reading! 📚🦀

📸 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#crustaceans

#NewSpecies!
New snapping shrimp from #madagascar just snapped:

Arete cornutus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/3777878E-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #AreteCornutus

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#OA #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #shrimps #snapping

🦀 The Ray Lankester Investigatorship is open! 🌊

For researchers with 10+ yrs post-PhD, this Investigatorship supports marine research at the Marine Biological Association.

Apply by 8 Oct 2025!
👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/member-homep...

📷 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#marinebiology #crustacea

#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #japan just came in:

Elasmopus projectus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/F0346A15-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#zootaxa #ElasmopusProjectus

#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #amphipods

Symposium Proposal Submission, SICB 2027 Use this form to submit your symposium idea. Proposals are due September 1. Submissions will be reviewed at the Program Committee meeting at the beginning of October, and you will be contacted in mid...

‼️ Symposium proposals for SICB 2027 in Pittsburgh are now also open! Submit your concept by August 27, 2025
Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Guidelines: sites.google.com/mail.fresnos...

❗️Abstract submission is OPEN for SICB 2026 in Portland!🦞 Join Jan 3–7 to share your research in integrative, comparative, and organismal biology. Deadline: Aug 27, 2025. Info: sicb.org/events/

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⛴️ Interested in hands-on ocean science? 🦀

Join the Sea Experience in Shipboard Oceanography at ASU-Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences! Open to grad students and early career scientists.

🔗https://bios.asu.edu/education/sea-experience-in-shipboard-oceanography

📷 Hans Hillewaert (CC)

🙋 Know a 15-19yr old interested in ocean work experience?

We're looking forward to co-hosting this Virtual Work Experience Week with @plymouthmarine.bsky.social! 🤜🤛

🪸🧑‍🔬🌡️ Together, we offer a wide range of career pathways for students to discover!

👉 Students must apply by 14th July

📤Do share!

🙃Published! 4th chapter of my PhD. Another example of how essential scientific collections are for taxonomy!
The systematic status of Afropisa sanctaehelenae (Chace, 1966) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Majoidea, Epialtidae): morphological and molecular evidence doi.org/10.3897/zook...
@zookeys.pensoft.net

New #checklist dataset in @gbif.org: species of deep-sea flabelliferan isopods from Taiwan (Crustacea: Peracarida: Aegidae, Anuropidae) (6 species occurrences) https://www.gbif.org/dataset/248a2273-9b56-489f-bedb-6709415a3211

📣 Call for Nominations!

The #IPCC is calling for experts to apply to participate in two three-day co-located workshops to be held in the first quarter of 2026:

🔹 Engaging Diverse Knowledge Systems
🔹 Methods of Assessment

🗓️ Nominations close: 16 July 2025
🔗 bit.ly/4kdWRJ3

🦐 New Research from the Journal of Crustacean Biology 🦐

The latest update to Volume 45, Issue 2 (2025) of the JCB is out now featuring new articles on ecology, functional morphology, and paleobiology.

🔗 academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/2

📸 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#crustacea #marineinvertebrates

Two amphipods found at 2,500m in the Nankai Trough during the #Shinkai6500 expedition.

Amphipods play a vital role in recycling nutrients on the ocean floor. To date, over 10,700 amphipod species have been described, but many remain undiscovered, particularly in the deep sea.

#NewSpecies!
New isopod from the #paracelislands just came in:

Bathynomus paracelensis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8CC82366-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ....
#BiodiversityDataJournal #BathynomusParacelensis

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#OA #taxonomy #nature #conservation #arthropods #crustacea #isopods

#NewSpecies!
New isopod from the #pacific just came in:

Haploniscus erebus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/13D95A2E-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zse....
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #HaploniscusErebus

#FAIRdata
#biodiversity #nature #conservation #invertebrates #crustacea #isopods #deepsea

🦀 Meet the people of The Crustacean Society! 🦀
We’re starting a little series to introduce all the wonderful people who help make the Society what it is.

Today, we’re kicking things off with Professor Emeritus Peter Castro!
#crustaceans

📣 Reminder: EuroMarine 2025 Calls are still open!
Deadline: 31 August 2025 🗓️

Whether you're an early-career researcher, a training organiser, or a visionary team looking to lead foresight activities – we’ve got a call for you. 💡🌊

euromarinenetwork.eu/opportunities/

Did you catch the trailer for Think Deep! yet?

This isn’t just a podcast. It’s a journey into one of the most important, least understood ecosystems on Earth the #DeepOcean.

Episode 1 drops this World Ocean Day – 8 June.

Watch the trailer: buff.ly/UXgiM23

🦐 New Research from the Journal of Crustacean Biology 🦐

Just in time for the weekend, the latest update to Volume 45, Issue 2 (2025) of the Journal of Crustacean Biology is here! Read the full issue here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/2
Happy reading! 📚🦀

📸: Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#crustacea

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Are you passionate about science, marine biology, and safeguarding ocean biodiversity? We have 𝟯 𝗲𝘅𝗰𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗲𝗰𝗵𝗻𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 open at @sgn.one!

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#NewSpecies!
New squat lobster from #japan just surfaced:

Munidopsis juxtapallida

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03C98939-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #MunidopsisJuxtapallida

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#ecology #nature #wildlife #conservation #crustacea #lobster #squatlobster #squat

#NewSpecies!
New crab from #pacific just pinched us:

Austinograea chubacarc

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03B9555B-...
Publication: doi.org/10.5252/zoos...
#Zoosystema #AustinograeaChubacarc

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#taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #crab

📢 PhD in Zooplankton Ecology at DZMB Hamburg (Senckenberg)!🦀

Study #zooplankton dynamics & size structure + drivers of spatial/temporal trends in the southern North Sea. Apply by July 1, 2025 👉 www.senckenberg.de/en/career/sc...

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Alexandrella wimdecocki sp. nov. (Stilipedidae Holmes, 1908) and new records for three Australian Abyssal Amphipods (Crustacea: Peracarida) | Zootaxa

Meet the great Alexandrella wimdecocki, another new species named after our DMT colleague Wim Decock, who is retiring soon.

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