#NewSpecies!
New land snail from #indonesia just crawled in:
Diancta batubacan
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/93C14AFA-9C62-5F7F-933B-65684F2F8BD5
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1233.143563
#ZooKeys #DianctaBatubacan
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #landsnails
Spotted this dude having breakfast while on my morning walk yesterday.
A Violet Snail (Janthina sp.) preying on a By-the-wind Sailor (Velella velella)
#NewSpecies!
New sea snail from #Brazil just crawled in:
Voluta melodica
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/4008878E-FFD3-A83F-890E-DFF6FF4BFBE1
Publication: https://doi.org/10.11606/1807-0205/2024.64.031
#PapéisAvulsosDeZoologia #VolutaMelodica
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #seasnails
#NewSpecies!
New sea snail from #NewCaledonia just crawled in:
Ethalia anomphala
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/714FF54E-375D-326C-FD86-FEF9FD9BFAE2
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2024.973.2765
#ejtaxonomy #EthaliaAnomphala
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #malacology #gastropods #snails #seasnails
Shared this in reply to someone's post, so thought y'all might like to see it too.
I haven't been able to draw like this in a couple of years because of pinched nerves and tennis elbow. The nerve problem seems resolved, so I hope to get back into drawing (and painting!) more once spring rolls around.
Mmmm, spring rolls....
#art
#BadPuns
#BlackAndWhiteDrawing
#InkDrawing
#b&w
#gastropods
#snails
New paper in Diversity and Distributions using @gbif mediated data:
When One Global #Invasion Hides Another—Cryptic Interspecific Invasion in #Freshwater #Gastropods
#OpenAccess: 
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“More than 1,300 tiny snails reintroduced to remote Atlantic island
The Desertas Island land snails have been set free to roam on the uninhabited island of Bugio, near Madeira”
#Molluscs #Gastropods #Madeira #Desertas #Discula #Geomitra
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/28/more-than-1300-tiny-snails-reintroduced-to-remote-atlantic-island
The #terrestrial #pulmonate #gastropods (#Stylommatophora, Gastropoda) have two pairs of #retractile #tentacles, an #apomorphy (#evolutionary innovation of the stem species) of the higher taxon Euthyneura. The rear pair of tentacles is elongated and has #eyes at its tips.
My photos show them in a close #macro shot using the Mediterranean #snail #species #Cornu #aspersum (#Helicidae).
#biodiversity #evolution
© #StefanFWirth Berlin 2024
Photos
C. aspersum, 2020, New edit 2024 © S. F. Wirth
The third time is the charm - let's congratulate our student Julia Riepe for successfully completing a second project module in our lab titled "Marking hard-shelled freshwater snails: Impact on survival in presence of predatory crayfish in Physella acuta". By conducting feeding trials using snails marked with different colors, we were able to learn more about the ability of Procambarus clarkii to discriminate between prey items. Kudos, Julia!
#ecology #evolution #gastropods @academicchatter
It's time to applaud our student Julia Riepe again for successfully completing a project module in our lab titled "Developmental risk environments: impact on shell color,
shape and thickness in Physella acuta", she revealed the differential effects of crayfish kairomones and alarm cues on snail morphology across 323 snails. Thank you for another successful scientific contribution, Julia! #ecology #evolution #gastropods @academicchatter
We applaud our student Dustin Raeke for finishing his Research module in our lab titled "Environmental effects on gastropod personality". His great efforts allowed him to study behavioral repeatability in 166 snails across two environments by conducting a whopping 830 experiments. Look forward to reading more about his results in a publication that will be prepared in the near future! #ecology #evolution #personality #plasticity #gastropods @academicchatter
#DogWalkingConchology Plenty of cowries on the beach at Uisken this morning. There are two species in Scotland: the plain northern cowrie, and the more coloured (often with one or two faint spots) European cowrie. Both seem to have done well in Mull this year. Or at least plenty of dead shells on beaches (which may or may not be the same thing!). #Cowrie #Gastropods #Seashells #Mull
Today, we would like to congratulate our student Julia Riepe for completing her Bachelor thesis titled "Phenotypic traits, their corrections and impact of survival in
freshwater snails in presence of predatory crayfish". Due to her research efforts, we were able to identify what behaviors and morphology maximize individual survival of Physella acuta in the presence of Procambarus clarkii. We are currently preparing her results for publication! #ecology #evolution #gastropods @academicchatter
We're happy to congratulate our student Melissa Loskant for completing a project module in out lab titled "Improved snail genome annotation with AUGUSTUS: The role of data filtering and selection". She was successful in determining the optimal parameters for training high-quality AUGUSTUS models across all available gastropod genomes, which is important information for all annotation-related publications!
#ecology #evolution #genetics #bioinformatics #annotation #gastropods #augustus
