
Kita marie Williams
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PhD candidate at QUT, sub-Antarctic ecology. ๐ฑ๐ฌ Tardigrade enthusiast, fossil fan, admirer of molluscs. ๐๐ I enjoy messing around with microscopes! She/her
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This is the tiny, delicate, planktonic larva of a sea urchin. At metamorphosis the tissues reorganise into a young adult form that will sinks to the sea floor where it will live the rest of its life. ZEISS Microscopy


Zootaxa updates FIRST! NEW BROODING SPECIES! Paralophaster ferax! ferax means "fertile" or "fruitful" For a specimen coll. in 1963 THIS was a CRAZY discovery! It and others were from 3138-3239 m! Scotia Sea! Juveniles inhabiting its coelom (as far as I could tell)









