Christian Nilsson (He/Him)
@oceandude.bsky.social
MSc in Marine Sciences from the University of Gothenburg. Soon to be PhD student, researching Hydrothermal Vent Ecology at the University of Bergen🌊🌋
Big fan of Polychaetes and other cool critters!🪱🪸🪼🦀🦑
Big fan of Polychaetes and other cool critters!🪱🪸🪼🦀🦑
More evidence that basically anything can be worm🪱
🚨 Don't eat uncooked snake! Your eyes & lungs can be parasitized by pentastomids, which are a CRUSTACEAN. Adults lack so many features that they weren't believed to be arthropods at all until their DNA was sequenced (and sperm morphology, but that was not widely accepted). Yet, they are!
#Crustmas 🧪
#Crustmas 🧪
December 22, 2024 at 3:18 PM
More evidence that basically anything can be worm🪱
Reposted by Christian Nilsson (He/Him)
Aquatic crustaceans of MANY types are fossilized in amber from 23 mya Mexico, but amber comes from tree sap - how did crustaceans get there??? We think the fossils may come from estuarine mangroves. Shown here are ostracods, copepods, isopods, and even CRAB.
#Crustmas 🧪🦑
Paper list in next skeets
#Crustmas 🧪🦑
Paper list in next skeets
December 22, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Aquatic crustaceans of MANY types are fossilized in amber from 23 mya Mexico, but amber comes from tree sap - how did crustaceans get there??? We think the fossils may come from estuarine mangroves. Shown here are ostracods, copepods, isopods, and even CRAB.
#Crustmas 🧪🦑
Paper list in next skeets
#Crustmas 🧪🦑
Paper list in next skeets
Reposted by Christian Nilsson (He/Him)
Ok so here comes a starter pack to find your favourite polychaete/annelid researchers. I have not yet found many of us, so let me know if you want to be included or know of others that should be included.
November 30, 2024 at 8:53 AM
Ok so here comes a starter pack to find your favourite polychaete/annelid researchers. I have not yet found many of us, so let me know if you want to be included or know of others that should be included.
A gorgeous pic of a gorgeous worm, taken by my officemate who is out in the water way more than me. Oh how I wish there was a better english word for ”sprattel” than ”flail”. Hesionids (sprattelmaskar) definitely have one of the cutest Swedish common names🥹🪱
Well would you look at that, it is #WormWednesday, sadly i don't got any good worm photos this year, but here, have a Oxydromus flexuosus (unsure if it has a English common name, in Sweden we call it "Green-white flailing worm") that i took a few years ago
Taken 13/11 2021, Camera: Olympus TG-5
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Taken 13/11 2021, Camera: Olympus TG-5
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November 30, 2024 at 10:07 PM
A gorgeous pic of a gorgeous worm, taken by my officemate who is out in the water way more than me. Oh how I wish there was a better english word for ”sprattel” than ”flail”. Hesionids (sprattelmaskar) definitely have one of the cutest Swedish common names🥹🪱
I recently described a new species of deep-sea polychaete found in high abundance on an abyssal wood-fall in the Clarion-Clipperton zone.
Feel free to check it out to get your fill of wood, worms, and wonderful taxonomic mysteries!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ds...
Feel free to check it out to get your fill of wood, worms, and wonderful taxonomic mysteries!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ds...
November 29, 2024 at 10:29 PM
I recently described a new species of deep-sea polychaete found in high abundance on an abyssal wood-fall in the Clarion-Clipperton zone.
Feel free to check it out to get your fill of wood, worms, and wonderful taxonomic mysteries!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ds...
Feel free to check it out to get your fill of wood, worms, and wonderful taxonomic mysteries!
doi.org/10.1016/j.ds...