Cifonauta, our image database for marine biology, is 8 years old today! Almost 12k photos and videos annotated with species names, geolocation, habitat, life mode, microscopy technique and more. Visit: http://cifonauta.cebimar.usp.br Follow: @cifonauta
Tag: biodiversity
All sorts of worms live a Life Between Grains! #WormWednesday Fantastic production by CEBIMar, @Maik2DD and others.
Last year, the PeerJ journal published an article about the largest marine animals. The neat infographic accompanying their tweet immediately got my attention (if the figure is not showing up, check it in full resolution here): For a couple of milliseconds, I thought the scale bar below the whales was a worm. Why? Because here in Norway, […]
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Comb jelly swallowed hole
Swallowed Whole—a comb jelly preying on a comb jelly. Just awesome! #ctenophora
After the illustration, this is a living cyphonautes larva collected from the plankton.
Twelve new bryozoan species from Brazil (Vieira et al. 2014) with videos hosted on the Cifonauta database. Check out some of these images here.
Another historical hunt for brachiopods ended successfully at @BioDivLibrary :)
I visited Japan solely for the purpose of studying the Brachiopoda of the Japanese seas, and this step led to my accepting the chair of zoology in the Imperial University at Tokyo. Gradually I was drawn away from my zoological work, into archaeological investigations, by the alluring problem of the ethnic affinities of the Japanese […]
The Cifonauta database was officially launched on September 26th of 2011 (last year). So, today it celebrates its first year of public life. However, the idea of creating an image database for marine biodiversity is much older than that. Photographic documentation is an essential part of research. During the past 30 years, a lot of […]