#crustaceans — Public Fediverse posts

💁🏻‍♀️ TIL: 🦞🎒 #US #Fish and #Wildlife biologists are testing tiny photo-IDs attached as "backpacks" to #endangered Big Sandy #crayfish in #Appalachia.

Because injecting a #chip would harm the 10 cm (4 in) #crustaceans, researchers superglue a batter-free PIT tag to each #shell and set it with baking soda water. The setup was first tested on a common surrogate species, and the tags letting go are actually a sign the crayfish survived long enough to molt.

👉 https://www.popsci.com/environment/backpacks-crayfish-superglue/

#conservation #wildlife #biology #science #endangeredspecies #nature #animals #research #freshwater #water #fieldwork

💁🏻‍♀️ 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

European Green Crab (Carcinus maenas)

#Crab #SeaLife #ArtWithOpenSource #CCBYSA #Darktable #MarineLife #Decapoda #Decapods #Crustacea #Crustaceans #Crustacean #Arthropod #Arthropods #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

Americorchestia sp.

#Sandhopper #Talitridae #Amphipod #ArtWithOpenSource #Darktable #CCBYSA #Amphipoda #Crustacean #Crustaceans #Crustacea #Arthropod #Arthropods #Animal #Animals #AnimalPhotography #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Nature #NaturePhotography #Photo #Photography

#Competition over millions of years preserves #genetic #diversity of three #crustaceans.

#host_parasite #coevolution #arms_race #Red_Queen

https://phys.org/news/2024-08-competition-millions-years-genetic-diversity.html

Plenty of Fish in the #OMZ https://oceanbites.org/plenty-of-fish-in-the-omz/

Patrolling the border: #Billfish exploit the #hypoxic boundary created by the world's largest #OxygenMinimumZone https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37283143/

"#Sailfish and blue #marlins are some of the fastest fish in the ocean... how do they manage to find the sparsely dispersed #fish, #squid and #crustaceans in the ginormous #ocean? They use an invisible oceanic boundary created by a mass of water that contains almost zero #oxygen!"