The winners of this year’s Nikon Small World in Motion are out, and my favorite is the 5th place entry, A newborn sea urchin walking along the seabed by Alvaro Migotto: It’s adorable to see these newly metamorphosed echinoderms and their long and chubby tube feet learning how to walk. This scene reminded me of […]
Tag: biodiversity
The other day I stumbled upon this passage in the Wikipedia page of Piseinotecus, a genus of beautiful nudibranch sea slugs: The name Piseinotecus comes from the Portuguese sentence “pisei no Teco” (I stepped onto Teco). Teco was the name of a dog of the zoologists Ernst Marcus and Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus. While they […]
This is a wonderful project mashing images from the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) with data from Wikidata and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). BHL Image Explorer: https://bhl-gallery.toolforge.org/ It enables us to explore the figure plates present in BHL’s catalog (also on Flickr and Wikimedia Commons), links with other databases, and keeps track of their […]
Amazing deep-sea biodiversity imagery from the expedition Underwater Oases of Mar Del Plata Canyon: Talud Continental IV. Organized by researchers of the CONICET and Schmidt Ocean Institute. The ROV is streaming live. Tip by Marina Cuenca.
The other day I was looking for some information about Brazilian velvet worms and found this website: onychophora.com. The gallery of photos is impressive!
Cifonauta 2.0 went live last week! It’s been almost two years of work since our project to modernize the image database was approved. Link: https://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br The site now has a responsive interface for mobile devices and a new administrative dashboard for users and curators of the database. Yes! We will gradually open up the database […]
Summary To add data from a ManyToManyField to a SearchVectorField, you can join the related values in a string and pass this string as a Value() expression to the SearchVector object: Cifonauta’s full-text search During the past year, we’ve been working on several updates for modernizing the Cifonauta database. The website now has a fully […]
Great episode about mud dragons with María Herranz in the New Species podcast: Post featured image by Alvaro E. Migotto, Fabiane Gallucci, Gustavo Fonseca, Maikon Di Domenico. Kinorhynch. Cifonauta image database. Available at: http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br/media/10461/
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 […]
Our proposal “Expansion and Modernization of the Image Database for Marine Biology – Cifonauta” submitted to the grant for the “Preservation and Curation of Collections and Cultural Heritage of the University of São Paulo” of the Pro-Rectory of Culture and University Extension (PRCEU 02/2022) was approved! Cifonauta, an image database for marine biology, was launched […]