Lithodid Colors, Colors of the Puget Sound King Crab
These exceptionally slowly growing crabs, with a massive adult body, are among the most colorful animals found in the Northeastern Pacific. They live most of their life in deep water, but come up into the shallows to molt, and incidentally display their vivid freshly molted color.
Feather Dusters and Feeding
(The big feather dusters )… need to be in an aquarium that has a very evident green tint when viewed from a couple of feet away.
Flashing in Disco Clams
In a very nice, easily understood, short paper, available online, free of charge, L, Dougherty and collaborators examined the “disco flashing” seen in the edges of the mantle of the bivalve Ctenoides ales.
Bizarre, Bizarrer, Bizarrest...
Recent research has shown that Ctenophores have a unique genome and nervous system structure, not related to those seen in any other animals.
A Big Gulp: Anemone Gets the Bird
… the best recent example I have seen is a blog detailing an example of a large green anemone from the Pacific coast, shown here eating the carcass of what is identified as a common murre chick, much larger than itself.
Matt Pedersen says:
Some addtional updates: Bocas Mariculture reports the successful cultivation of Serranus flaviventris, which didn't make it onto the list, and two accomplishments initially attributed to Bocas were in fact reported by Till Deuss from earlier when he was working with Biota Palau, so these have been attributed to the Biota Group with date information.Matt Pedersen says:
It's been brought to my attention that we overlooked the first breeding of Corythoichthys conspicillatus by Pholium Mariculture in the UK, which occurred in 2022. And thus, the first addition to the next list is already known!CORAL Magazine’s Captive-Bred Marine Fish Species List for says:
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