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Advancing the study of Crustacea by promoting exchange and dissemination of information. Join us today!
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🦐 Fully funded PhD at the Univ. of Leicester: study how ancestral pollution shapes modern health using Daphnia magna and epigenetics.
Apply: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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November 9, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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📸🦐 TCS Photo Competition 2025 is open!
Show us your best crustacean shots! Live specimens or lab images (e.g., light microscopy/SEM).
💰 Prizes up to $300 + JCB cover feature!
Deadline: 30 Nov 2025

Details 👉 www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

📷 Hans Hillewaert & Janek Lass (CC)
October 31, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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#NewSpecies!
New freshwater crab from #india just pinched us:

Patithelphusa yercaudensis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/ABF1BF47-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #PatithelphusaYercaudensis

#FAIRdata
#OA #nature #conservation #animals #invertebrates #crustacea #crab #freshwater
Patithelphusa yercaudensis, paratype female, dorsal view.
October 30, 2025 at 9:28 AM
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🦀 Renew your Membership or Join The Crustacean Society!

Researchers, students, & crustacean enthusiasts, join our global community and access grants, scholarships, competitions, and more.

Renew or join: www.thecrustaceansociety.org

📸 Lion Pods Live Copepods & Corbari L.
October 23, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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#NewSpecies!
New hermit crab from east #atlantic just came out:

Dardanus ctenodon

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/038EBC2D-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #DardanusCtenodon

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #animals #crustacea #crab #hermitcrab
Dardanus ctenodon in life in Cape Verde Islands. Photographs and copyright: Peter Wirtz.
October 17, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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#NewSpecies!
New mangrove crab from #australia just came in:

Parasesarma otiense

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/2BBCB7FE-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #ParasesarmaOtiense

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #crab #mangrove
Parasesarma otiense, holotype, frontal view.
October 17, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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As much as #nokings is the message of the day, here is 1:20 of Birgus latro! the world's largest terrestrial crab! #crabz youtu.be/ucHz7Kdgyhg?...
ヤシガニの歩き方。
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October 18, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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🌊 Applications are open for the MBA Student Bursary Programme! 🌊
Supporting early-career marine scientists by removing financial barriers to global research opportunities.
Apply by 31 Oct (noon UK)

🔗 mymba.mba.ac.uk/student-burs...

📷 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#MarineBiology
October 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from the #blacksea just surfaced:

Niphargus primoricus

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/8390EBB5-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #NiphargusPrimoricus

#FAIRdata
#openaccess #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #crustaceae #amphipoda #amphipods
Niphargus primoricus, holotype ♂, general lateral view.
October 10, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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#NewSpecies!
New squat lobster from the #atlantic #ocean just pinched us:

Munidopsis messingi

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/27F7770D-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #MunidopsisMessingi

#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #ecology #biodiversity #nature #conservation #crustacea #lobster
Munidopsis messingi, color images of fresh specimen.
October 10, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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❗️New Articles in the Journal of Crustacean Biology 🦞
Two new crustacean studies have just been published in Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025) of the Journal of Crustacean Biology! Read the latest research here:
🔗 academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3

Happy reading! 🦀

📷 Chan T. Y. & Lin C. (CC)
October 11, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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🦀 Student Highlights from the TSC Summer Meeting 2025🦀

Massive congratulations to all the amazing student contributions at The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting 2025 in Paris! We had a great time, especially seeing so many talented early-career scientists showing their work!
October 4, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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➡ EJT Vol. 1012 (2025) #openaccessjournal
📰 Published 2025-08-28

[#Zoology] 🦞 Squat lobsters ( #Decapoda: Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea) from Saya de Malha Bank, SW Indian Ocean, with the descriptions of 3 #newspecies ⤵

✒ Enrique Macpherson & Annie Machordom
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
➡ "Specimens of galatheoid and chirostyloid squat lobsters were collected during a scientific cruise to the Saya de Malha Bank in the southwestern Indian Ocean. Nineteen species were identified, including three new species belonging to the genera Coralliogalathea Baba & Javed, 1974, Galathea Fabricius, 1793 and Trapezionida Macpherson & Baba, 2022. The present paper provides systematic accounts of the three new species, along with new locality records of other species. Molecular data are provided to support the identification and differentiation of each new species..."
September 1, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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#NewSpecies!
New mole crab from #indonesia just surfaced:

Emerita pangandaran

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/06298781-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #EmeritaPangandaran

#FAIRdata
#science #biology #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #animals #crustacea #crab #molecrab
Emerita pangandaran, holotype male, dorsal view.
September 19, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #iceland just came in:

Neopleustes schwentneri

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03F387B4-...
Publication: doi.org/10.5852/ejt....
#ejtaxonomy #NeopleustesSchwentneri

#FAIRdata
#taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #crustacea #amphipods
Neopleustes schwentneri in life.
September 26, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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❗️New Articles from JCB 🦞
The latest research on crustaceans has just been added the Journal of Crustacean Biology (JCB), Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025).

📖 Read the full articles here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3

Happy reading! 🦀

📷 Corbari L.
#thecrustaceansociety #crustaceans #marineinvertebrates
September 28, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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🌍 TCS Early-Career/Post-PhD Travel Awards 🦀

Apply by 30 Sept 2025 (deadline extended) for a chance to receive a US$2,000 travel grant to present your crustacean research at a TCS meeting (e.g., SICB)!
🔗 thecrustaceansociety.org/scholarship.php

📷 Janek Lass (CC)
September 19, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🦀 TCS Student Travel Awards: Deadline extended to Sept 30, 2025!

Up to five US$500 grants for students presenting at SICB or other crustacean-related meetings. Find out more and apply here www.thecrustaceansociety.org/scholarship....

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September 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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#NewSpecies!
New squat lobster from the #redsea just pinched us:

Sadayoshia benzoniae

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/03EF0962-...
Publication: doi.org/10.11646/zoo...
#Zootaxa #SadayoshiaBenzoniae

#FAIRdata
#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #crustacea #lobster #squat
Dorsal view of Sadayoshia benzoniae paratype, male.
September 12, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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🦀MDPI Diversity Travel Award 2025 🦀

Apply by 31 Oct 2025 for a chance to receive CHF 800 + certificate for postdocs/PhDs presenting at 2026 biodiversity conferences.

Find out more: www.mdpi.com/journal/dive...

📷 Janeklass (CC)
September 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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#NewSpecies
New atyid shrimp from #vietnam just swam by:

Caridina tanson

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/EE5C738F-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #CaridinaTanson

#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #conservation #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #shrimps
Live coloration of Caridina tanson.
September 5, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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Ever wondered how tidal creek crabs stabilize their gaze? think crabs are neat? want to support a first time author? read my first article! out now in IOB @sicbjournals.bsky.social academic.oup.com/iob/article/...
Two Decapod Crustaceans, Panopeus herbstii and Petrolisthes armatus, Stabilize Their Gaze Using Achromatic Visual Cues, but Not the Angle of Linearly Polarized Light
Synopsis. Gaze stabilization is important to animals because it allows them to visually differentiate between their own motion relative to their environmen
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September 4, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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🌊 COBRA Early Career Master Class & Fellowship 🌊

Gain skills to plan & conduct deep-sea expeditions in this 12-week program! Open to early career researchers.
Apply & learn more here: cobra.bigelow.org/master-class...

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#deepsea
September 7, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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NEXT WEEK - "The Effects of Climate Change on Scottish Deep Seas - A Story Map and Policy Brief" will be an open session with @kristinakbeck.bsky.social (@edinburgh-uni.bsky.social)‬ + Daniëlle de Jonge (@jncc.bsky.social) from the Deep Sea Forum
🪸Sign up: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/bcb2f7...
August 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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And for #InverteFest false crab of the day, Paguropsis! 😍 A hermit crab genus that wears an anemone but stretched out with no shell ever!

Also called the "blanket hermit crabs" they live in the deep sea, 150-360 m below 🦀🦑🧪

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Paguropsis confusa. This is a freaking adorable hermit crab face already with big blue eyes, but it has a squishy pink anemone like a snuggie on its rear half to complete the picture. Specimen photographed in situ with ROV, not collected, off Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, DST/NRF ACEP Spatial Solutions Project cruise, sta R45 Echinoderm Extravaganza (photograph: DST/NRF ACEP – Spatial Solutions project team) Paguropsis andersoni, similar but seen from the side. The anemone is spotted and you can just detect the 3rd leg holding it in place. Specimen not collected, ROV, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, DST/NRF ACEP Spatial Solutions cruise, Aliwal outer reef, off KwaZulu-Natal, RY Angra Pequena, sta R50: specimen photographed in situ with ROV, not collected (photograph: DST/NRF ACEP – Spatial Solutions project team)
August 25, 2025 at 11:09 AM