Indeed: x.com/PlanktonPundit…

Astonishing marine life cycles. Many seabed creatures start life in the plankton. This late-stage planktonic crab larva, called a megalopa, is about to leave the plankton to begin its adult life on the seabed. (You can see the remnants of the zoea's dorsal spine.)
ZEISS Microscopy

It is indeed and here, are the zoea x.com/PlanktonPundit…

Astonishing marine life cycles. Many seabed creatures start life in the plankton. This late-stage planktonic crab larva, called a megalopa, is about to leave the plankton to begin its adult life on the seabed. (You can see the remnants of the zoea's dorsal spine.)
ZEISS Microscopy

🥶 The 1°C coldroom at IMAS in Hobart is currently home to probably the largest collection of live Southern Ocean zooplankton outside of #Antarctica . (🧵1/6)

Huge spring plankton biodiversity in my net sample collected off Plymouth UK yesterday. At least: Dinoflagellata, Bacillariophyta, Haptophyta, Arthropoda, Annelida, Phoronida, Cnidaria, and Echinodermata. But what species can you see? ZEISS Microscopy

At least 14 phyla in tis one Plymouth sample: Dinoflagellata, Bacillariophyta, Haptophyta, Arthropoda, Annelida, Phoronida, Cnidaria, Chordata Mollusca, Ctenophora and Echinodermata.

Learn a little about Y-larvae and more about other plankton in my Ocean Drifters youtube.com/watch?v=ziGtmj…

European Journal of Taxonomy 叱咤過侮離のtapa The Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) Survey Paula Rodríguez Flores Rafael Martín Ledo The British Nature Guide Deep Sea News Dr Richard Kirby Amazing video footage of more than 30 morphospecies of crustacean y-larvae from a coral reef hotspot locality: youtu.be/er0mYLswV-c

[ #Zoology ] Taxonomic diversity of marine planktonic ‘y-larvae’ (Crustacea: Facetotecta) from a coral reef hotspot locality (Japan, Okinawa), with a key to y-nauplii ⤵️

✒️ Jørgen Olesen Statens & Mark J. Grygier
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.20…
#Crustacea #Facetotecta

Dr Richard Kirby ZEISS Microscopy So beautiful, so vital and so under appreciated

The stunning beauty of spring in the plankton off Plymouth, UK. ZEISS Microscopy

The stunning beauty of spring in the plankton off Plymouth, UK. ZEISS Microscopy

It's not OK to dispose of vapes into the hedgerow. A moronic behaviour. I see so many disposable vapes discarded on my country walks and I also see them floating at sea when I'm sampling plankton. So sad.

It's not OK to dispose of vapes into the hedgerow. A moronic behaviour. I see so many disposable vapes discarded on my country walks and I also see them floating at sea when I'm sampling plankton. So sad.

This is great 👍 New participants in my Secchi Disk study (SecchiDisk.org) make a fantastic short video about preparing to study the phytoplankton as their family sails across the Atlantic from Annapolis to Italy facebook.com/reel/953075849…

This is great 👍 New participants in my Secchi Disk study (SecchiDisk.org) make a fantastic short video about preparing to study the phytoplankton as their family sails across the Atlantic from Annapolis to Italy facebook.com/reel/953075849…