The InverteFest is here. A moment to celebrate the overlooked diversity of invertebrates around us.
I’m re-posting a video I made for the Cifonauta account on Instagram showing different marine invertebrates moving around under the microscope. Enjoy!
Invertebrate Gallery
Check the gallery below to find out the identity of each marine invertebrate in the movie (by order of appearance):
Video Sources
- Epibiotic snail (Caecum): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11692/
- Neriliid polychaete (Nerilla): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11647/
- Mite (Halacaroidea): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11805/
- Hydromedusa (Obelia): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11544/
- Scaled polychaete (Phyllodocida): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11472/
- Crustacean on comb jelly (Hyperiidae, Leucothea): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11525/
- Kinorhynch (Kinorhyncha): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11780/
- Gastrotrich (Thaumastodermatidae): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11712/
- Squidlet (Loligo): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11572/
- Sabellid polychaete (Eurinaceusyllis): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11652/
- Nudibranch (Cuthona): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11629/
- Water bear (Tardigrada): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11757/
- Pteropod mollusc (Creseis): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11591/
- Tubulariid hydroid (Acharadria): http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/11536/