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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · 6d

🦀 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!

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European Journal of Taxonomy @ejtaxonomy.bsky.social · Sep 1

➡ 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..."

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 21d

#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.

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 14d

#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

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · 12d

❗️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

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · 21d

🌍 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)

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · 22d

🦀 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....

📷 Ffish.asia (CC)

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · 28d

#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

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#OA #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #crustacea #lobster #squat

Dorsal view of Sadayoshia benzoniae paratype, male.

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · 27d

🦀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)

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · Sep 5

#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

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Maddy Janakis @maddy-janakis.bsky.social · Sep 4

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

academic.oup.com

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · Sep 7

🌊 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...

📷 Hans Hillewaert (CC)
#deepsea

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MASTS @mastscot.bsky.social · Aug 27

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...

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · Aug 25

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 🦀🦑🧪

zookeys.pensoft.net/article/23712/

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)

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · Aug 30

❗️New articles from JCB 🦀

Some exciting new articles have just been added to Journal of Crustacean Biology (JBC), Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025)!
Read the full articles here: academic.oup.com/jcb/issue/45/3
Happy reading & wishing you all a great weekend!

📷 Janek Lass (CC)

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · Aug 22

❗️Post-Doc Alert! 🦀
NIOZ is hiring a Post-Doc in Marine Benthic Ecology. Join sea-going expeditions & research human impacts on the benthic ecosystem.
Apply by Oct 17, 2025 👉 academicpositions.com/ad/nioz-roya...

📷 Frank Fox (CC) #marinescience

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · Aug 15

#NewSpecies!
New copepod from #southchinasea just surfaced:

Monstrilla pseudograndis

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/9851EEA4-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #MonstrillaPseudograndis

#FAIRdata
#openaccess #taxonomy #biodiversity #nature #crustacea #copepods #ocean #zooplankton

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · Aug 15

❗️New articles from JCB 🦞
Some more exciting new articles have been added to Journal of Crustacean Biology (JBC), Volume 45, Issue 3 (2025), covering topics in paleobiology, physiology and more!

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

Happy reading!🦀
#crustaceans

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Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA) @oceanspecies.bsky.social · Jul 3

What scientists thought was one deep-sea isopod species turned out to be six—five of them brand new to science!

Explore this cryptic group's discovery story and meet the whole isopod crew in the article below:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/from-c...
@sgn.one

From Cryptic to God Complex: Discovery of 5 New Isopods!

Senckenberg Nature Research scientists explored one of the deepest and least-known parts of the ocean, the Kuril-Kamchatka Trench and nearby regions in the Northwest Pacific. In doing so, they uncover...

www.linkedin.com

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · Aug 10

Meet the people of The Crustacean Society! 🦀✨
We’re continuing our series introducing the wonderful people who help make the Society what it is.

Today, meet Prof. William Santana, our President-elect. Swipe to learn more about him!

#thecrustaceansociety #crustaceans

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ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · Aug 8

Four new species of the poorly known freshwater crab genus Megapleonum are described from China's Guangdong Province. Learn more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#aquaticspecies #taxonomy #newspecies

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old wildlife illustrations @wildlife.nathan.fun · Jul 18

The stalk-eyed Crustacea Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895. (source: https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333) #nature #illustration #art

The stalk-eyed Crustacea
Cambridge, Printed for the Museum, 1895.
https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13885333�

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ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · Aug 1

Four new freshwater shrimp species are described in the genus Caridina. Learn more about them here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...

#biodiversity #endemicspecies #fauna

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The Crustacean Society @crustaceansociety.bsky.social · Aug 3

❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175

📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology

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Plazi @plazi-species.bsky.social · Jul 25

#NewSpecies!
New amphipod from #panama just came in:

Photis bulla

Treatment: treatment.plazi.org/id/40FE8260-...
Publication: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#ZooKeys #PhotisBulla

#FAIRdata
#OA #biology #taxonomy #ecology #nature #conservation #animals #invertebrates #arthropods #crustacea #amphipods

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