From octopuses to snails, the complicated molluscan family tree has now been mapped in unprecedented detail, researchers report in Science.
Learn more in this week's issue: https://scim.ag/4icM3dB
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The FIRST genome-phylogeny of MOLLUSCS complete with ALL classes —including the mythical "living fossil" Monoplacophora— reveals how they evolved the most diverse body forms of all animals!
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Exciting news! This appears to be the FIRST observation of Spirula, aka ram's horn squid, alive + in its natural environment. Very rarely seen or captured, they have many extinct relatives, but are only living member of genus Spirula, family Spirulidae, and order Spirulida. 1/3
[New Paper] In Okinawan deep-sea hot vents, we found a parasitic isopod living in the squat lobster Shinkaia crosnieri. And it's a new species, the first record of Bopyroidea from vents! Meet Pleurocryptella shinkai, named in honour of
[New Preprint] Reports our serendipitous (re)discovery of the "Living Fossil" monoplacophoran mollusc Neopilina galatheae on the ongoing #MappingGalapagosVents expedition on-board