#crustaceans — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🛸🌊 A #NOAA #ROV explores abyssal plains near the #CookIslands in the #SouthPacific, mapping the deep seafloor and #water column with sensors while live streaming nearly daily through August 13. Divers have already spotted carnivorous #sponges that capture small #crustaceans, a surprising find for habitats once thought sparse.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/deep-sea-exploration-livestream-pacific/

#deepsea #pacific #marinebiology #oceanography #science #exploration #conservation #maps #abyssal #biology

Crabs invade garden shed… 50 miles from the sea https://www.allforgardening.com/1854264/crabs-invade-garden-shed-50-miles-from-the-sea/ #BBCThreeCountiesRadio #bedfordshire #Biggleswade #crustaceans #garden #HitchinStreet #MichaelBirch #RichardLawrence

One of the highlights of my day was when William Harland, a talented ecology undergrad here at #LincolnUniversityNZ, stopped by my office to show me his photos of temnocephalid flatworms. These distinctive squat tentacled flatworms live in colonies on NZ's freshwater crayfish, koura, and eat scraps left over when the koura feed. They apparently cause no bother to the koura.

William found these at Poolburn Reservoir in central Otago.

Amazing!

The photo is CC-BY William Harland: https://inaturalist.nz/observations/341041723
Here are more photos of these crazy flatworms on #iNaturalistNZ: https://inaturalist.nz/observations?verifiable=true&taxon_id=868829&place_id=6803&preferred_place_id=6803

#invertebrates #flatworms #NaturalHistory #NZ #Freshwater #crayfish #crustaceans #nature #crayfish

Chondrocladia Sponge
https://interactiveoceans.washington.edu/05/2024/chondrocladia-sponge/

"A bizarre and rarely-seen carnivorous #DeepSea sponge, Chondrocladia lampadiglobus (colloquially known as the ping pong tree sponge) can be seen growing on stalks anchored in the sediment of the #abyssal #ocean... They have a modified version of the internal water flow system found in shallow-water #sponges, but they use it to inflate the round balloon-like structures that capture prey (usually small #crustaceans) using hooked spicules."