#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #japan just swam in:
Lepechinella macrospinosa
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/6E2B878B-FFC5-FFD7-FF29-F9BBFB06A287
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5601.1.6
#Zootaxa #LepechinellaMacrospinosa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustaceae #amphipoda #amphipods
@jstevenyork
At least you didn't call it a "crab-like" as "Live science" did.
#Amphipods are not #shrimps (ok, one group is called "skeleton shrimps", but they don't even resemble shrimps tbh. and Dulcibella is not from that one).
And this thing looks pretty normal for deep-water Amphipods:
https://spikesandbristles.pictures (these are freshwater though).
#crustaceans
Join us! #Postdoc #position in #Groundwater #Biodiversity (2 years) opening up in our group @florian_altermatt
More info and application details:
https://apply.refline.ch/673277/1214/pub/1/index.html
#biogeography
#taxonomy
#ecology
#amphipods
#Niphargus
please spread widely!
Land use influences organisms living underground https://phys.org/news/2024-10-underground.html
Terrestrial #LandUse signals on groundwater fauna beyond current protection buffers https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/eap.3040
"land use within a radius of up to 1 kilometer from the #groundwater extraction site has an impact on #amphipods. This could indicate that the current groundwater protection zones are not large enough."
