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Alison Young
@alisonkestrel.bsky.social
Community science | Biodiversity | Intertidal ecology | Pottery | Nudibranchs!

Director of Outreach Programs at iNaturalist

I spend lots of time in the tidepools, love marine inverts and wildflowers, and probably have clay on me somewhere.

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It looks like WoRMS is following the taxonomy in that paper for the Glaucus species, but also this more recent (2019) paper that restored the Glaucilla genus: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/3047...
The extraordinary genus Myja is not a tergipedid, but related to the Facelinidae s. str. with the addition of two new species from Japan (Mollusca, Nudibranchia)
Morphological and molecular data are presented for the first time in an integrative way for the genus Myja Bergh, 1896. In accordance with the new molecular phylogenies, the traditional Facelinidae is...
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April 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
There have been a bunch of A. rhodocerus around lately, something about the last 4 months or so has been treating them right! 😄
March 11, 2025 at 5:32 AM
That's its siphon.
March 2, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Eastern Pacific Red.
March 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Love googly conch eyes! 👀
February 20, 2025 at 11:04 PM
I voted! And you can vote everyday! ⭕
February 13, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's called a slurp gun or a shrimp gun.
February 8, 2025 at 2:19 AM