Invertebrates on the Web Florida Museum resources SNAILS of Florida (FL) Collection Databases (FL) Discover Science (FL) Biodiversity Large-scale projects Census of Marine Life Neogene Marine Biota of Tropical America (NMITA) Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS)
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
Isistius brasiliensis This small, cigar-shaped shark is dark brown on top and light on the underside, with a darker band around its neck. The light underside glows, attracting fish, whales, and sharks. It attaches itself to the prey and uses its serrated bottom teeth to cut out a perfectly circul
In the eastern Atlantic Ocean, it is found from Cape Verde, Guinea to Sierra Leone
So, we’ve been generally doing two simultaneous field excursions per day, one group goes diving and one group goes snorkeling/wading. Â Usually we split up at the dock, but one day we all piled onto the boat (9 of us, plus dive gear for 5). Â Here is the boat from the water, once the snorkelers have a
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
At the beginning of the year, Gustav and I traveled to Hong Kong to help with an ARMS project led by David Baker’s lab at Hong Kong University. Gustav is highly sought-after for his extensive invertebrate expertise, and I…know a lot about putting animals in jars. If you don’t know what ARMS are,
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
The materials excavated from En Bas Saline are currently being curated and maintained on behalf of the Haitian government by the Florida Museum of Natural History, through a cooperative agreement between the University of Florida and the Bureau National D’Ethnologie D’Haiti. The agreement also incl
– for protein. In precontact times, they captured and ate hutias – small, guinea
Invertebrate Zoology (IZ) holds collections of animals other than vertebrates, as well as some other eukaryotes. Mollusks represent 80% of the collection, reflecting the original focus of the collection (Malacology), as well as the availability of shells. The collection was expended to IZ in 2000 an
Reefs of Guam Freshwater Snails of Florida ID Guide Land Snails of Papua New Guinea
Hemiscyllium ocellatum This carpet shark is a long, slender shark that tends to be creamy or brown with small dark spots (Compagno 2005). They often forage for food in tidal pools and risk being stranded, but they can survive for up to an hour without any oxygen (Stenslokken et al., 2004) and eve
However, the population in New Guinea is considered distinct from that of Australia
A new study by researchers from five institutions including the University of Florida introduces the first method to directly measure body temperatures of extinct vertebrates and help reconstruct temperatures of ancient environments. The study, appearing in this week’s online early edition of Pro
latest invasive pest Life on Earth Nine new snail species discovered in Papua New Guinea
The University of Florida Herbarium maintains a non-circulating reference library of publications pertinent to the naming and classification of vascular plants (plant taxonomy and nomenclature). The literature in this collection contains descriptions, geographical ranges and keys for differentiatin
Indochina 363 Thailand 364 Malesian Region (Indonesia, Philippines, Malay, New Guinea
Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new Florida Museum of Natural History study suggests. „It’s kind of quirky that a parasite we love to hate can actually inform us how we t
the same genetic type as those found as far away as the highlands of Papua, New Guinea
