#Zebrafish #Gar #Killifish #Medaka #Stickleback #Xiphophorus #Lamprey #Xenopus #Cephalopod #Squid #Hydra #Aplysia #Nematostella #Tunicate #SeaUrchin #Planarian #Ctenophore #Ciona #Echinoderm #Aiptasia #Coral #ComparativeBiology

A living sea urchin larva, Arbacia punctulata, under a polychromatic polarizing microscope.
Its calcite skeletal rods are birefringent. Here the hue encodes their slow-axis orientation, so the rods change color as the larva turns. No stains
#Microscopy #SeaUrchin #Larva #Biomineralization #Plankton
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#Zebrafish #Gar #Killifish #Medaka #Stickleback #Xiphophorus #Lamprey #Xenopus #Cephalopod #Squid #Hydra #Aplysia #Nematostella #Tunicate #SeaUrchin #Planarian #Ctenophore #Ciona #Echinoderm #Aiptasia #Coral #ComparativeBiology
CROGAN-FEANNAIG ~ sea urchin 🍥
New entry: www.faclair.ac.uk/entries/106
So what’s the Gaelic for sea urchin? Well, we have a long list of words and variants of the same word, across dialects...and we’re still finding more.
CROGAN-FEANNAIG 🍥
Inntreadh Ăąr: www.faclair.ac.uk/entries/106
Creutair-mara cruinn aig a bheil slige chruaidh agus gathan biorach; sea urchin (den ghnè Echinoidea).