Our last days on St. Martin were a flurry of activity. Our last day was spent draining ethanol in preparation for our flight and packing up all our specimens and gear. The four of us who were returning to Gainesville checked a total of 9 bags eliciting the curiosity of our fellow passengers and the
Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
These first few days have been busy! We arrived Sunday evening after a quick 2 hour flight from Miami. We settled into our place, had a good meal and got up the next morning ready to get to work. We have been brought on board to do a biodiversity survey of the French Marine National Park on St. Mart
Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
Our mission, should we choose to accept it, will be to find the worm Chaetopterus pergamentaceus from its type locality of „Antilles.“ Armed with that informative location description (thanks, Cuvier), Jenna’s keen sense of worm-dar, and Google Earth, we gladly accepted the mission and headed off to
Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
The Florida Museum Fish Collection contains more than 236,000 catalogued lots (approximately 2,450,650 specimens), representing more than 9,000 species. In addition, there is an unsorted backlog of about 12,000 lots (about 120,000 specimens). Most of the uncatalogued and backlog material was acquir
Eastern Atlantic collections from the Gulf of Guinea
University of Florida scientists have co-authored a study describing a new Lepidoptera species found in Jamaica’s last remaining wilderness. Belonging to the family of skipper butterflies, the new genus and species is the first butterfly discovered in Jamaica since 1995. Scientists hope the n
Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea
The Florida Museum of Natural History’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology will incorporate new collections with the help of a National Science Foundation grant. The division’s collection has more than doubled in size in the past 15 years, and the nearly $402,000 award will create space for this ex
Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea
Peacock Flounder Bothus lunatus One of the most noticeable features of this flat fish is that both eyes are on one side of its head. But they start out with an eye on either side of their heads like most fish, and their right eye migrates towards the left as they mature. They are experts at
species resides off Ascension Island and in the Gulf of Guinea
Largetooth Sawfish Pristis pristis Although sawfish look somewhat like sharks, they are actually rays. They have an elongated snout or „rostrum“ that is studded with teeth that they swing from side to side to stun schooling fishes, crustaceans and invertebrates upon which they feed. Large to
India, the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia to New Guinea
Curator, Herbarium and Informatics Joint Professor, Department of Biology Ph.D. Natural History Museum, London & University of Reading, UK Email: ncellinese[at]flmnh.ufl.edu Twitter @ncellinese Florida Museum of Natural History Dickinson Hall, Rm. 354 1659 Museum Road Gainesville, Flor
Asia and Australasia: India, Sri Lanka, Papua New Guinea
So February was crazy. Even by our usual standards of busy-ness, everything was just a little bit more hectic in February. There was a lot of background busyness in the form of job seminars. Most weeks, sometimes twice a week, the whole museum schlepped over to Powell Hall (the public face of the
Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
