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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Benthodytes, sponge w/ ophiuroid, ophiuroid, squat lobster, shrimp, Elpidiidae @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 964 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They're ascending but they collected this floaty Giant Hydroid with a polychaete on it before leaving bottom. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 964 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Closer look at the zoids on this Marrus siphonophore. Nicely done, Pilots! @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 965 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

🤔 I thought this was Solmissus at 1st but it looks different in a lot of ways. @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social do you recognize this Medusa? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 965 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Little Amphipod on Anthomastus (or Heteropolypus; i think a microscope is needed to know which?) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 965 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Sea cucumber, maybe Iridigorgia (or Rhodaniridogorgia?), sponge (Farreidae?), crnoid, squat lobster, & that last one looks to me like Enteropneusta balled up @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 965 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Siphonophore — the grizzly bear of squishy things. ROV pilots recorded this footage at 1589 meters during the 2025 #AsgardArchaea expedition in the deep waters of Uruguay. (Sound on to learn more.)

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Octacnemus (predatory tunicate) @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 965 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Xenophyophores, Chrysogorgiidae, Saccocalyx, Umbellula, Ophiuroid, Ptychogastria @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 965 part 2 (some of those are from the 1st part that I forgot to share) #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 14h

Probably Hymenaster or more conservatively a pterasterid..but I'd be surprised if this was Pteraster

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 15h

Tretopleura?, Urchin, Cerianthid, Bamboo?(think I see nodes from a distance but when they zoom I don't see them), Plinthaster? @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 966 part 2 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 14h

*laugh* Pancreas? huh. a good idea for the species epithet if new!

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Finally got around to making Raup's mollusk shell model work in R. Also spent too much time trying to give a retro look. #marinelife #molluscmonday

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Dr Craig R McClain @drcraigmc.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

More geekery tonight. Trying to make sure my code worked as intended and generating Raup's Figure 2 from his 1962 paper "Computer as Aid in Describing Form in Gastropod Shells" #marinelife #SciArt #paleobiology #MolluscMonday #paleontology

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

#MolluscMonday Scratched by the feet of countless visitors unaware of its existence, a Carboniferous gastropod in a memorial stone in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.

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Tom Sharpe @tomsharperocks.bsky.social · 21h

#MolluscMonday: spotted this clam shell decoration on a visit yesterday to Newhailes, cared for by the National Trust for Scotland. Thought at first that they were moulded plaster but they’re real, gilded, clam shells from 1816 or earlier.

Fireplace in a historic house with a mirror and portrait above and lines of gilded clam shells.

Close up of real clam shells gilded as room decoration.

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Emil @bergylta.bsky.social · 20h

For this #molluscmonday we got a large one, the Tritonia hombergii. This sea slug grows to about 20 cm, which is gigantic compared to most other species in Sweden. Taken: 2026-05-14. Bergylteskär, Lysekil. Camera: Olympus TG-5 🤿🦑

A photo of a Tritonia hombergii sea slug. The sea slug is grey in colour with orange edges. The sea slug is crawling on a rocky wall with pink encrusting coralline algae.

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

This Amphipod on the Crinoid has some cool legs. I zoomed in so you can see them wiggle. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 965 part 2 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Fair. but I suspect that is a best guess. I'm sure if you have a better notion it would be appreciated!

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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Show creator Sherwood Schwartz commented in his memoir that there is always a subset of people who will believe everything they see. I think about that a lot.

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Ctenophores Rock! @ctenophoresrock.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

"The fact I have now to report, Is one partly old, partly new, sirs; About a remarkable sort Of the ciliograde Medusas. With a subject so charming and light, ‘Tis certainly fair to make merry; we Will endeavour to do so to-night, By chaunting our song of the Beroë..." -Edward Forbes #CtenophoreDay

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

ha ha! OH CARP! Heligmaster! that thing I described back in 2022! Did the collect?

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Clip of Ctenophore when it had the feeding tentacles out & then schlurped them in. @noncompliantcyborg.bsky.social @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 963 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Lisa @tuexplorer1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

@echinoblog.bsky.social a nice Hymenaster for ya. Plus Abyssopathes @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 962 #samplinggap #MarineLife

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

oh how NEAT! A #deepsea "squid worm" member of the Acrocirridae, Teuthidodrilus apparently feeding? on remains of a sea cucumber! #wormwednesday youtu.be/wxIAb_neJ30?...

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Flamboyant Squidworm Feasts on Sea Cucumber

YouTube video by EVNautilus

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Its been speculated that gulls do this as roughage. There ain't a lot of good stuff to eat on those.

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Cormac MacFhionnlaoich @cormacscoast.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Watching the waves rolling in against a spectacular piece of the North Antrim coastline. County Antrim, Ireland. Cormacscoast.com

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Magical creatures don’t exist, eh? Roughly 400 million years ago, before the birth of trees, there were giant mystery cones called “Prototaxites,” which grew nearly 30 feet tall. We literally have no idea what they were. Plant: no Mushroom: no Animal: no Tell me this isn’t a little bit magic

Sunset with giant mystery cones Prototaxites https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/prototaxites-fossil-explained-why-this-prehistoric-colossus-still-baffles-scientists-1773173

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Elizabeth Beston @elizabethbeston.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lots of tintinnids in my samples at the moment. #marineplankton 🦑🔬

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DASSH @dassh-at-the-mba.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

👀 iNaturalist Observation of the Month 📷 This stunning pink coryphella (Edmundsella pedata) was spotted off Plymouth by Brenton Prigge. Its vibrant pink and purple cerata make it one of the UK's most eye-catching nudibranchs. Share your sightings 👉 uk.inaturalist.org @thembauk.bsky.social

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Two further slit shells, Pleurotamariids from Puerto Rico, 283m or thereabouts, Vieques Island seen by #Okeanos in 2018 during the Oceando Profundo expedition #molluscmonday

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A pleurotamariid "slit shell" snail at 262 m from Pichincho Wall East, Puerto Rico during the 2018 #Okeanos Oceando Profundo expedition EX1811 #mollucmonday

brown-orange shell sitting on a deepsea cliff face

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Nicola Crockford @numenini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I like this pic of a Common Bithynia (Bithynia tentaculata) at the end of the rainbow. With more River Nerites (Theodoxus fluviatilis) & their eggs, Acute Bladder Snail (Physella acuta), plus Common River-Snail (Viviparus viviparus) & chomping Great Ram's-Horn (Planorbarius corneus). #MolluscMonday

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Paul D. Taylor @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

#MolluscMonday Section of a fossil gastropod shell in a Bordeaux street paving stone. I believe this to be an acteonellid of Cretaceous age but would welcome feedback.

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Anthony (Tony) J. Martin @ichnologist.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Terrific example of #scicomm for my #ENVSCOMM26 students to watch & learn, about the Billion Oyster Project in NYC, which aims to replenish oyster reef there for all of the good reason. Also thematically apt for #MolluscMonday! 🧪🦪

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Íñigo Vitón @vitoninigo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

🇬🇧🐚 #MolluscMonday at Robin Hood's Bay (Yorkshire) section, the Pliensbachian GSSP #Jurassic #ammonites [See ALT for captions]

Bifericeras donovani. Lowermost Pliensbachian

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Emil @bergylta.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another week and another #molluscmonday. This time we got the Facelina bostonensis nudibranch, which i saw on a scuba dive on a cold november day. It is also known as "Dragon nudibranch" in Swedish. 🤿🦑 Taken 2023-11-11 in Jordfalls Hamn camera: Olympus TG-5

A photo of a beige-pink Facelina bostonensis nudibranch. The nudibranch has white tips of its cerata (pointy bits on its back). It is crawling on a stalk of algae, laying a string of white eggs.

A photo of a beige-pink Facelina bostonensis nudibranch. The nudibranch has white tips of its cerata (pointy bits on its back). It is crawling on a light-brown substratum

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Veeloxxy Bites @the-episiarch.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Termitodesmidae is an elusive family of millipede that lives exclusively in the fungal chamber of termite nests where they get to chow down on an all-you-can-eat fungal buffet 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ceylondesmus kistneri in the fungal chamber of a termite mound.

Dorsal (top) and ventral (bottom) view of Ceylondesmus escherichi

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Duncan McIlroy @dmcediacaran.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

We names the #Ediacaran #Edrathina obditchia from #InnerMeadow after we had decided it was a stem ctenophore. Ctenophores are also known as comb-jellies. Following recent convention we have used Beothuk words for naming. Edrathin means comb & Obditch means beast. So the name means “comb beast”

view looking into the triangular/collapsed cone calyx of Edrathina with the tentacles oriented towards you and the holdfast disc found at the top right. the tentacles have numerous pinnules arising from them and can be seen to arise from the margin of the calyx.

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