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Paula Rodríguez Flores

@paularodflo.bsky.social

Polyphyletic ✺ Invertebrate Enthusiast ✺ Postdoc @NMNH ✺ Former @MCZHarvard Biodiversity Postdoc ✺ Science-driven, not opinion-driven

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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

Extremely cool new paper by @paularodflo.bsky.social! 🦀🦑🧪 A barnacle parasitizing a squat lobster, as seen here (the parasite is the "red" blobby stuff). They made a molecular phylogeny of the barnacles, a step towards understanding how they choose hosts academic.oup.com/jcb/article/...

Thylacoplethus novacambria sp. nov. Micro-CT images of externae arising from female Munidopsis arietina Alcock & Anderson, 1894 (MV J72896); host in grey, rhizocephalan externae in red. Dorsal (A), lateral (B), ventral (C), and en-face (D) views. Scale bars = 5 mm.

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Paula Rodríguez Flores @paularodflo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

New species alert!! A new species of Salmoneus was found in the Gulf of Mexico. Check our last publication in the link below mapress.com/zt/article/v...

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Paula Rodríguez Flores @paularodflo.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Our last paper recently published in Invertebrate systemaics is out! Miocene diversification of the genus Pisidia on the eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Read the full article here: www.publish.csiro.au/IS/IS24100

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ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · 18/09/2025

Using an integrative taxonomy approach, researchers described a new species of squat lobster called Munidopsis messingi. Find out all about it here: doi.org/10.3897/zook... @paularodflo.bsky.social

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Paula Rodríguez Flores @paularodflo.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Meet our new beautiful squat lobster species from the Red Sea!! Credits: S. Bähr and N. Dunn (A–C), A. Anker (D). Chek our article recently published in @Zootaxa mapress.com/zt/article/v...

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Schmidt Ocean Institute @schmidtocean.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Flying into the weekend! They are, in fact, swimming, but it still looks as if they are flying in the most fabulous way. This squat lobster stuck the landing on the south wall of the #MarDelPlataCanyon during a recent ROV dive, part of the #TaludContinental_IV expedition in Argentina.

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Paula Rodríguez Flores @paularodflo.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Check our last squat lobster contribution!! I am very excited!! A new species of squat lobster from the Western Atlantic, plus several range extensions in the Gulf of Mexico, unveiled in our latest paper. Dive into the details: zookeys.pensoft.net/article/1563... Photo: Darryl Felder

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Chris Mah @echinoblog.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

#MOLLUSCMONDAY! #deepsea Limpet named for One Piece character blog.pensoft.net/2025/07/24/n...

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New deep-sea species named after ONE PIECE character

Found 6 km beneath the Pacific, the limpet's unusually large size inspired its name.

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Paula Rodríguez Flores @paularodflo.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

We should be proud of having one of the most beautiful isopod species as endemic of the levante region in Spain.

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