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Dardanus ctenodon in life in Cape Verde Islands. Photographs and copyright: Peter Wirtz.

#NewSpecies!
New hermit crab from east #atlantic just came out:

Dardanus ctenodon

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/038EBC2D-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #DardanusCtenodon

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

Parasesarma otiense, holotype, frontal view.

#NewSpecies!
New mangrove crab from #australia just came in:

Parasesarma otiense

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/2BBCB7FE-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #ParasesarmaOtiense

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #crab #mangrove

YouTube video by satoshi ueda ヤシガニの歩き方。

As much as #nokings is the message of the day, here is 1:20 of Birgus latro! the world's largest terrestrial crab! #crabz youtu.be/ucHz7Kdgyhg?...

🌊 Applications are open for the MBA Student Bursary Programme! 🌊
Supporting early-career marine scientists by removing financial barriers to global research opportunities.
Apply by 31 Oct (noon UK)

🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/student-burs...

📷 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#MarineBiology

Niphargus primoricus, holotype ♂, general lateral view.

#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from the #blacksea just surfaced:

Niphargus primoricus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8390EBB5-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #NiphargusPrimoricus

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#openaccess #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #crustaceae #amphipoda #amphipods

Munidopsis messingi, color images of fresh specimen.

#NewSpecies!
New squat lobster from the #atlantic #ocean just pinched us:

Munidopsis messingi

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/27F7770D-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #MunidopsisMessingi

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#OA #biology #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #crustacea #lobster

❗️New Articles in the Journal of Crustacean Biology 🦞
Two new crustacean studies have just been published in Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025) of the Journal of Crustacean Biology! Read the latest research here:
🔗 academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3

Happy reading! 🦀

📷 Chan T. Y. & Lin C. (CC)

🦀 Student Highlights from the TSC Summer Meeting 2025🦀

Massive congratulations to all the amazing student contributions at The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting 2025 in Paris! We had a great time, especially seeing so many talented early-career scientists showing their work!

➡ "Specimens of galatheoid and chirostyloid squat lobsters were collected during a scientific cruise to the Saya de Malha Bank in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Nineteen species were identified, including three new species belonging to the genera Coralliogalathea Baba & Javed, 1974, Galathea Fabricius, 1793 and Trapezionida Macpherson & Baba, 2022. The present paper provides systematic accounts of the three new species, along with new locality records of other species. Molecular data are provided to support the identification and differentiation of each new species..."

➡ EJT Vol. 1012 (2025) #openaccessjournal
📰 Published 2025-08-28

[#Zoology] 🦞 Squat lobsters ( #Decapoda: Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea) from Saya de Malha Bank, SW Indian Ocean, with the descriptions of 3 #newspecies ⤵

✒ Enrique Macpherson & Annie Machordom
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....

Emerita pangandaran, holotype male, dorsal view.

#NewSpecies!
New mole crab from #indonesia just surfaced:

Emerita pangandaran

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/06298781-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #EmeritaPangandaran

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#science #biology #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #animals #crustacea #crab #molecrab

Neopleustes schwentneri in life.

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

Neopleustes schwentneri

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387B4-...
Publication: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
#ejtaxonomy #NeopleustesSchwentneri

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#taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #amphipods

❗️New Articles from JCB 🦞
The latest research on crustaceans has just been added the Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB), Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025).

📖 Read the full articles here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3

Happy reading! 🦀

📷 Corbari L.
#thecrustaceansociety #crustaceans #marineinvertebrates

🌍 TCS Early-Career/Post-PhD Travel Awards 🦀

Apply by 30 Sept 2025 (deadline extended) for a chance to receive a US$2,000 travel grant to present your crustacean research at a TCS meeting (e.g., SICB)!
🔗 thecrustaceansociety.org/scholarship.php

📷 Janek Lass (CC)

🦀 TCS Student Travel Awards: Deadline extended to Sept 30, 2025!

Up to five US$500 grants for students presenting at SICB or other crustacean-related meetings. Find out more and apply here www.thecrustaceansociety.org/scholarship....

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Dorsal view of Sadayoshia benzoniae paratype, male.

#NewSpecies!
New squat lobster from the #redsea just pinched us:

Sadayoshia benzoniae

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF0962-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #SadayoshiaBenzoniae

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #crustacea #lobster #squat

🦀MDPI Diversity Travel Award 2025 🦀

Apply by 31 Oct 2025 for a chance to receive CHF 800 + certificate for postdocs/PhDs presenting at 2026 biodiversity conferences.

Find out more: www.mdpi.com/journal/dive...

📷 Janeklass (CC)

Live coloration of Caridina tanson.

#NewSpecies
New atyid shrimp from #vietnam just swam by:

Caridina tanson

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/EE5C738F-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #CaridinaTanson

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#OA #biology #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #conservation #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #shrimps

Two Decapod Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light Synopsis. Gaze stabilization is important to animals because it allows them to visually differentiate between their own motion relative to their environmen

Ever wondered how tidal creek crabs stabilize their gaze? think crabs are neat? want to support a first time author? read my first article! out now in IOB @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/iob/article/...

🌊 COBRA Early Career Master Class & Fellowship 🌊

Gain skills to plan & conduct deep-sea expeditions in this 12-week program! Open to early career researchers.
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📷 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#deepsea

NEXT WEEK - "The Effects of Climate Change on Scottish Deep Seas - A Story Map and Policy Brief" will be an open session with @kristinakbeck.bsky.social (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)‬ + Daniëlle de Jonge (@jncc.bsky.social) from the Deep Sea Forum
🪸Sign up: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bcb2f7...

And for #InverteFest false crab of the day, Paguropsis! 😍 A hermit crab genus that wears an anemone but stretched out with no shell ever!

Also called the "blanket hermit crabs" they live in the deep sea, 150-360 m below 🦀🦑🧪

zookeys.pensoft.net/article/23712/

❗️New articles from JCB 🦀

Some exciting new articles have just been added to Journal of Crustacean Biology (JBC), Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025)!
Read the full articles here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3
Happy reading & wishing you all a great weekend!

📷 Janek Lass (CC)

❗️Post-Doc Alert! 🦀
NIOZ is hiring a Post-Doc in Marine Benthic Ecology. Join sea-going expeditions & research human impacts on the benthic ecosystem.
Apply by Oct 17, 2025 👉 academicpositions.com/ad/nioz-roya...

📷 Frank Fox (CC) #marinescience

#NewSpecies!
New copepod from #southchinasea just surfaced:

Monstrilla pseudograndis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/9851EEA4-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #MonstrillaPseudograndis

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#openaccess #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #crustacea #copepods #ocean #zooplankton

❗️New articles from JCB 🦞
Some more exciting new articles have been added to Journal of Crustacean Biology (JBC), Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025), covering topics in paleobiology, physiology and more!

Find the full articles here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3

Happy reading!🦀
#crustaceans

From Cryptic to God Complex: Discovery of 5 New Isopods! Senckenberg Nature Research scientists explored one of the deepest and least-known parts of the ocean, the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and nearby regions in the Northwest Pacific. In doing so, they uncover...

What scientists thought was one deep-sea isopod species turned out to be six—five of them brand new to science!

Explore this cryptic group's discovery story and meet the whole isopod crew in the article below:
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Meet the people of The Crustacean Society! 🦀✨
We’re continuing our series introducing the wonderful people who help make the Society what it is.

Today, meet Prof. William Santana, our President-elect. Swipe to learn more about him!

#thecrustaceansociety #crustaceans

Four new species of the poorly known freshwater crab genus Megapleonum are described from China's Guangdong Province. Learn more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#aquaticspecies #taxonomy #newspecies

The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333

The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333) #nature #illustration #art

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

#biodiversity #endemicspecies #fauna