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I'm trying to find if any micro-CT system is capable to visualize very small invertebrates in such a detail, that would allow taxonomic classification. Currently I'm about to scan daphnias to test...
06 June 2015 1,490 12 View
Egg capsules of Euspira catena are laid in a characteristic open collar-shaped mass of jelly and sand grains. I could not find anything about the function of this special laying: interest to avoid...
06 June 2015 1,771 5 View
Collected from Palk Bay @ Low tide (7.30 am) on Feb 2013
06 June 2015 3,105 10 View
I have collected this specimen near port.
06 June 2015 1,453 4 View
from coastal debris in Karachi
06 June 2015 9,094 3 View
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Is anybody able to identify this Diptera for me? A couple of specimens were collected from an emergence trap in a New Zealand river (Tukituki River). I presume they are aquatic: I know they are...
22 May 2015 8,676 6 View
This specimen was collected from tamilnadu, India and this specimen was found in rocky shore, can anyone help to find out that species name to everyone?
21 May 2015 9,898 3 View
I found 4 individuals of this mite in an intertidal zone at galician coast, with halacarid mites. Thank you !
05 May 2015 3,921 4 View
Greetings. I'm just preparing a sci. note about spider predation on Uropygy, but I haven't found any valuable information. I'd greatly appreciate if you can suggest some literature, since my...
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The Ophiuroid was found at a depth of 23 meters. It was brownish black and measured roughly 36 mm when spread (Arms and Central disc) Observing the echinoderms morphological characters. I think it...
27 April 2015 8,150 2 View
This "jelly ball" has been saw twice floating in shallow marine waters in Sicily (Mediterranean Sea). Someone suggested that it might be a damaged jelly umbrella but the evident bilateral symmetry...
27 April 2015 3,710 18 View
I'm having difficulties finding a suitable identification book for terrestrial gastropod (especially slug) in Indonesia. I'm trying to ID my specimens using idtools.org but i cant find any species...
25 April 2015 878 3 View
Increased value of invertebrates - Mediating variable
09 April 2015 3,038 5 View
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Based on my current field experience I can say that simpler methods (eg. netting, soil traps) worked with only "accidental results". There were only a few cases when more than 3-5 spiders were...
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Somebody could identify this spider. It is a Latrodectus species. What kind of Latrodectus is it? I fotographed it in Lybia, Marsa El Brega, 16th January 2015. I think this is new spec. for Lybia...
04 April 2015 1,030 15 View
I have collected this species from the trawl catch from Gujarat state India. The collection site is located on the north western coast of India in Arabian sea
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I would like to compare the levels of metals in these invertebrates with those that are established. Samples are collected from a NORM site.
12 March 2015 3,488 2 View