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🐚#Nautiluses are little known ocean dwellers, whose beautiful #shells have crashed their populations. Having described 3 #NewSpecies in ZooKeys, Dr Gregory Barord took to our blog to share the story & his wire scars: blog.pensoft.net/2023/02/02/sav… #MarineScience #MarineSpecies

Mangrove Periwinkles, Littoraria angulifera, from the bay side of Sanibel Island. In Southwest Florida, Mangrove Periwinkles live almost exclusively on the branches of Red Mangroves, Rhizophora mangle.

Yoyo clams (Divariscintilla yoyo) are only found in Florida burrows of the mantis shrimp (Lysiosquilla scabricauda) where they affix to the walls, & yoyo up & down on their contractile foot, thus earning their name…and possibly a reputation as a difficult housemate. Spineless Science @ UF

New post on terrestrial isopods on my website! Worked over 2 years to include over 160 species/morphs. Link in reply.

The Lightning whelk, Sinistrofulgur sinistrum are typically "left handed" shells with the opening on the left. Here we see a comparison of a normal specimen to the right of a very rare specimen with its opening in the opposite orientation. @HMNS Photo © HMNS | Tom Dubrock

Join us and the American Genetic Association for the next GIGA conference in Cartagena, Colombia Oct 31-Nov 3 2023. Abstracts are being accepted now: gigacos.org/index.php/meet…

Happy to share our recent work on priapulan and ecdysozoan genomics! A big thank you to my co-authors in the Giribet lab Gonzalo Giribet and the Harvard FAS Informatics Group. academic.oup.com/gbe/article/15…

Recently MCZ staff from Herpetology, Malacology, Ornithology, Invertebrate Zoology and Collections Operations attended the yearly SPNHC meeting to share information about current grants and collection projects, and learn from colleagues at other institutions.

Happy to share our preprint on crustacean UCEs! We test a new probe set targeting UCEs for Malacostraca, specifically designed for Decapoda and Peracarida. The study was led by Jonas C. Geburzi from Leibniz Centre for Tropical Marine Research (ZMT), developed by Jonas in Museum of Comparative Zoology with Shahan Derkarabetian and Gonzalo Giribet

The Florida Marsh Clam, Cyrenoida floridana, lives in brackish water along eastern North America. Its white shell is thin, inflated, ½ inch in diameter, with an L-shaped hinge tooth. Parasites form nodules on the inside surface. – P.M. Mikkelsen, FMNH. Image from Nautilus, 123.

We are getting very excited about the upcoming GIGA V meeting co-sponsored by the American Genetic Association. Don't wait, abstracts are due August 1st. #GIGAV

Ever heard about crazy hairworms that infect insects and make them jump into water so the worm can get out and find mates? Well, we sequenced the first genomes of this entire phylum of animals, and learned that they are even weirder than we thought! 1/N tinyurl.com/hairworm-genom…

This is the product of great team work: Bruno de Medeiros Arianna Lord Martin Sørensen Gonzalo Giribet Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology | Field Museum | University of Copenhagen Research Specimens Museum of Comparative Zoology mczbase.mcz.harvard.edu And there is so much more that you can see in the full paper Current Biology! doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

The story of this successfully crazy quest has been recently published in Current Biology. The short note is free for everyone to download for 50 days, until September 12, 2023. Here is the link: authors.elsevier.com/a/1hTUb3QW8S2Q… doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.…

Our work on nematomorphs featured in @natgeo Spain! Tauana J. Cunha Bruno de Medeiros Arianna Lord nationalgeographic.com.es/mundo-animal/d… via @natgeoesp

Director and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor, Gonzalo Giribet was part of the team that found a specimen of the first described species of velvet worm, which had previously only been reported in 1892 and 1984. stvincenttimes.com/american-scien…

Such sad news. One of the true zoological luminaries of our time.

So sad to hear this. Claus was always a close friend and suporter. RIP, Claus

Cool CSIRO Publishing blog on invertebrates! blog.publish.csiro.au/invertebrates-…

Five new species of squat lobsters have been described by Paula Rodríguez Flores, former Biodiversity Postdoctoral Fellow. Munidopsis giribeti is named to honor MCZ director and Harvard Organismic & Evolutionary Biology professor Gonzalo Giribet's inspirational passion and dedication to invertebrates. bit.ly/4hSPpSP