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Javier Luque
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Senior Research Associate @ZoologyMuseum & @Cambridge_Uni • Invertebrates & crustacean evolution 🦀🦞 •Tropical Palaeontology 🌎* Latino in STEM 🇨🇴🔬
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As the Curator of crustaceans & non-insect arthropods at Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, is a pleasure & honour to study & care for our collections, including #CharlesDarwin 's famous barnacle slides from his landmark ‘Monograph of the Cirripedia’ (1851-1844). Happy #InternationalMuseumDay!🦀
Slide with dissected barnacle Balanus crenulatus, from Charles Darwin Collection, University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology. Photo by Javier Luque Note describing the slide collection of Charles Darwin barnacles at the University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology. It reads: "These slides are arranged systematically in accordance with the order of species in the two volumes of Darwin's Monograph of the Cirripedia, 1851-1854., the page number being given at the bottom of each slide. The printed number (also written at the top of each slide) is the number in Darwin's manuscript catalogue. This catalogue, in Darwin's own handwritting, is in the Museum of Zoology, History of the Collection, Vol. III, 1892-97. No. 454". Photo by Javier Luque Photo of one of the drawers with dissected barnacle slides from Charles Darwin Collection, University of Cambridge Museum of Zoology. Photo by Javier Luque Javier Luque, Curator of crustaceans & non-insect arthropods at Cambridge University Museum of Zoology, holding a drawer with some of the barnacle slides from Charles Darwin’s collection
May 18, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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A new fossil assemblage from Indonesia Borneo, which includes forams, molluscs, crabs, echinoderms, corals, & trace fossils, suggests that the Central Indo-Pacific marine biodiversity hotspot may date back to the Eocene, >34 Mya! 🐚🦀🪸⭐ doi.org/10.1017/jpa.... @camzoology.bsky.social #fossilfriday
May 2, 2025 at 2:31 PM