#NewSpecies
New brittle star from #taiwan just surfaced:
Breviturma securis
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/0385423B-9820-FFCD-FDF8-7514FC8FFDA5
Publication: https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.997.2919
#ejtaxonomy #BreviturmaSecuris
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #echinodermata #asterozoa #seastar #brittlestar
Seastar – Build and dependency manager for C/C++ with Cargo's features
https://github.com/AI314159/Seastar
#HackerNews #Seastar #C++ #Cargo #DependencyManager #OpenSource #GitHub
#NewSpecies!
New deepsea starfish from #china just surfaced:
Freyastera jiaolongi
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C5234970-A9EB-5EAF-BD7B-BA2B0AC2AC29
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.144918
#ZoosystematicsAndEvolution #FreyasteraJiaolongi
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #asteroidea #starfishs #seastar #deepsea
We visited the #sunflower #seastar laboratory yesterday to check on on all the little #starfish. They're almost to their one year spawn-iversary!
Crown-Of-Thorns Starfish
Description: This character certainly does not invite a nice petting.
Location: Hawai'i, USA
Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved
https://thecareyadventures.com/blog/crown-of-thorns-starfish/
#NewSpecies!
New sea star from eastern #pacific just surfaced:
Caymanostella scrippscognaticausa
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/89611739-FFAD-537C-98BF-A5F0FC97FADB
Publication: http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5536.3.1
#Zootaxa #CaymanostellaScrippscognaticausa
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #echinodermata #asteroidea #seastar #starfish
#NewSpecies!
New starfish from #japan just surfaced:
Paragonaster hoeimaruae
Treatment: http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A3730A-8524-FFBA-FE62-CEFDFB6F3F69
Publication: http://doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2024.2377336
#JournalofNaturalHistory #ParagonasterHoeimaruae
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #taxonomy #ecology #biodiversity #nature #wildlife #conservation #animals #echinodermata #asteroidea #seastar #starfish
Every year I participate in #ArtAdventCalendar. It’s a great way to fill your feeds with art at the end of the year. All are welcome & it’s definitely not just for people who celebrate Christmas. Join in! It can be a bit of an antidote to all the commercialism of the season cause it’s just about sharing art. I tend to focus on recent art. I made so many prints this year, I can share a piece from 2024
Raising Hungry #SeaStar Babies Is No Cinch https://baynature.org/article/raising-hungry-sea-star-babies-is-no-cinch/
"Not so long ago, you could count on #pycnopodia to devour #PurpleUrchins and keep them from eating too much #kelp. A decade ago, the mysterious wasting disease began plaguing #SeaStars, right around the time that a #MarineHeatWave struck... In the absence of their primary predator, urchin populations exploded. Since then they have mown across the sea floor unhindered, leaving urchin barrens where #KelpForests once flourished."
Mother's Day 2024 #pnw #seaglass #seastar #rockybeach #life
Lovely low tide today #pnw #sanjuanislands #seastar #rockybeach
Sunflower #SeaStars are critically endangered, but can humans help the species rebound? https://phys.org/news/2024-03-sunflower-sea-stars-critically-endangered.html
"2 aquariums teamed up with labs and scientists to successfully spawn #SunflowerSeaStars recently, giving hope for the critically #EndangeredSpecies that was nearly wiped out when a #SeaStar wasting syndrome swept the West Coast about a decade ago, killing billions."
Some dancing starfish for this rainy San Francisco day.
Here's an in-progress photo. The finished drawing is now posted for my supporters on Patreon and Ko-fi:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/95681730
https://ko-fi.com/Post/InkyDays-January-2024-C1C5SU95F
Long presumed to have no heads at all, #starfish may be nothing but
Naturalists have puzzled over what might constitute head of a #seastar, commonly called a "starfish." With five identical arms—any of which can take lead in propelling sea stars across seabed—it's been anybody's guess how to determine the front end of the organism from the back. Teams from Standford and Berkeley detected #genes associated with head development just about everywhere in juvenile sea stars
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-presumed-starfish.html
Long presumed to have no heads at all, #starfish may be nothing but https://phys.org/news/2023-11-presumed-starfish.html
Molecular evidence of anteroposterior patterning in adult #echinoderms https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06669-2
"It's as if the #SeaStar is completely missing a trunk, and is best described as just a head crawling along the seafloor"