New bizarre deep-sea life history documented in #TheScientificNaturalist 👇
ESA Journals
[New Paper] Our paper reporting the finding of active chimneys and chemosynthesis-based animal community on Quaker Seamount, Mariana Forearc is now published in Marine Biodiversity!
Read for FREE: rdcu.be/fl6VE
doi.org/10.1007/s125...
C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec
Incredible new snail discovered that eats the tubes of deep sea worms (!!)
Article on the Endangered Scaly-foot Snail from Scientific American @scientificamerican.com.web.brid.gy !
www.scientificamerican.com/article/cele...
C. Chen @ Jamsteeeec
Meg Daly
We were calling it deep-sea panda on the ship 🤣
We now know of many vesicomyids that distribute on both sides of the Pacific (ie. US and Japan), actually. Many have been given separate names on the two sides but now we know they are genetically the same species. E.g., Archivesica soyoae = kilmeri.
[New Paper] in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social reports a remarkable limpet feeding exclusively on chitinous tubes of deep-sea tubeworms! Chitin may be key energy reserves in the deep. New species in the family Osteopeltidae previously only known from whale fall.
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
[New Paper] in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social reports a remarkable limpet feeding exclusively on chitinous tubes of deep-sea tubeworms! Chitin may be key energy reserves in the deep. New species in the family Osteopeltidae previously only known from whale fall.
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
[New Paper] in Ecology @esajournals.bsky.social reports a remarkable limpet feeding exclusively on chitinous tubes of deep-sea tubeworms! Chitin may be key energy reserves in the deep. New species in the family Osteopeltidae previously only known from whale fall.
OPEN ACCESS: doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
[New Paper] Describes and names a new species of cleftclam: Thyasira okutanii! It was discovered from deep-sea cold seeps in the Pacific coast of Japan during the JAMSTEC
x @oceancensus.bsky.social expedition last year.
Out now in The Nautilus, read for FREE: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
Yes! Read our paper in Ecology here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
