🚨Foraminifera, ecosystem engineer 🤔 Microtopography assessment revealed foraminiferal surface sediment reworking activities 💪🏼 Well done @ManonDoutrelant for her 2nd PhD paper #bioturbation #meiofauna @cnrs-hautsdefrance.bsky.social @univlille.bsky.social

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Mexican nematodes! 🪱💗
-Cuticular plates of Ceramonematidae from Cozumel.
-Spicule and gubernaculum of Cyatholaimidae from Yucatán.
-Buccal cavity of Cyatholaimidae from Yucatán.
-Vulva of Phanodermatidae from Yucatán.
#Nematode #Nematoda #Meiofauna #Marine

New paper out in SAB!

A new 𝙋𝙨𝙚𝙪𝙙𝙤𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖 species from the North Brazil Shelf was distinguished by its higher cirrata tube count, pentancre morphology, and bipartite caudal organ by Araújo et al. Read here: buff.ly/XLswTDu

#cladistic #microinvertebrate #meiofauna #taxonomy

Acoela (maybe Isodiametra pulchra?) from the #meiofauna of the coastal waters of Istria, the northern part of the #AdriaticSea for #WormWednesday #marinebiodiversity #invertebrates