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THEY SHOULD’VE HAD FOUR UNIFORM COLORS DAMMIT
February 25, 2026 at 4:22 AM
christiannby.bsky.social
Das erste Bild 2025. Ostracoda, Candona
January 3, 2025 at 6:06 PM
christiannby.bsky.social
Bleiben noch die Muschelkrebse. Ostracoda
October 30, 2023 at 7:05 PM
daverodland.bsky.social
#FossilFriday comes with an extra dose of #Crustmas tonight! ⚒️🧪

Ostracodes don't get a whole lot of attention among the general public, and so not a lot of love. But these bivalved crustaceans have quite the fossil record and thrive yet today, much as they try to pretend to be mollusks.
Ostracods, seen as oval outlines in tan finr grained carbonate rock. Label: "Leperditia sp. (Crustacea, Ostracoda) Greenfield Fm. Upper Silurian Highland County, Ohio"
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 AM
mesquitajoanes.bsky.social
New species of #Ostracoda from bromeliad phytotelmata
zookeys.pensoft.net ZooKeys @zookeys.pensoft.net · Mar 31
Minute ostracod crustaceans of the genus Elpidium are strictly specialized in phytotelmata, small water bodies filling the holes of plants such as bromeliads. A new species of this genus has been described for the first time for the island of Hispaniola: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
March 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
mesquitajoanes.bsky.social
Course on #Ostracoda. #Crustmas. Bucharest, May 2025. www.support-irgo.net/eso/
ESO – European School on Ostracoda | Society of Friends
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December 22, 2024 at 5:37 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
@franzanth.bsky.social has been holding out on us. He's got at least two species of ostracods just hanging out in his yard?!? (the arrow thing and the elongate things are both ostracod)

#Crustmas
December 13, 2024 at 4:53 PM
dinopantheon.bsky.social
ヒゲじいが新種の名前に！
論文OA
中部地方の砂浜から発見されたPolycopsis higejii sp. nov.（甲殻類：介形虫類）
www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/spec...
www.nhk.jp/g/ts/8M52YNK...
Polycopsis higejii sp. nov. (Crustacea: Ostracoda) from a Sandy Beach in Central Japan
A new species of the ostracod genus Polycopsis G. W. Müller, 1894 (Myodocopa: Halocyprida: Polycopidae), P. higejii sp. nov., is described from the in …
www.jstage.jst.go.jp
October 1, 2026 at 9:45 PM
christiannby.bsky.social
Und weil es so schön ein Tier zum ersten mal auf dieser Plattform überhaupt zu zeigen. Notodromas monacha frontal. Ein Muschelkrebs, Ostracoda. Den so zu fotografieren war extrem aufwendig.
August 26, 2023 at 6:18 PM
microdarren.bsky.social
Is the pdf linked here a copy of the Baird 1845 fulltext you're looking for? www.marinespecies.org/ostracoda/ap...
World Ostracoda Database
www.marinespecies.org
January 14, 2026 at 8:42 PM
mossworm.bsky.social
here is link: www.researchgate.net/publication/...
(PDF) Learning on a chip: Towards the development of trainable biohybrid sensors by investigating cognitive processes in non-marine Ostracoda via a miniaturised analytical system
PDF | Miniaturised analytical systems are showing growing interest in aquatic ecology, although this technology has not been exploited to study... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on Re...
www.researchgate.net
May 30, 2025 at 12:53 AM
meegsy.bsky.social
I found a whole new order of creature in the garden this week: Ostracoda! Dozens of these tiny crustaceans were swimming around in a sunken upside-down bin lid we use as a ground level water feature in the back corner of our pocket meadow. @norfolknats.bsky.social
@panspecieslisting.bsky.social
Three tiny, ovoid, slightly green, shelled creatures with feathery antennae protruding from one end sit on a decaying brown leaf.
April 21, 2026 at 9:49 PM
jopabinia.bsky.social
There are lots, actually! Don't forget about ostracods!

As deep as 9,307m (with over 30 species below CCD in one locality)

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Review of Ostracoda (Crustacea) living below the Carbonate Compensation Depth and the deepest record of a calcified ostracod
Ostracods are small-sized crustaceans, which inhabit all aquatic ecosystems and, because they have a comprehensive fossil record, are important enviro…
www.sciencedirect.com
June 5, 2026 at 1:14 PM
mesquitajoanes.bsky.social
Temperature-driven oxygen consumption in Loxoconcha elliptica (Ostracoda: Podocopida), with limited differences among sexes and late ontogenetic stages. Our new contribution to the study of the physiology of #Ostracoda, led by PhD student Aurora Altonar

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Temperature-driven oxygen consumption in Loxoconcha elliptica (Ostracoda: Podocopida), with limited differences among sexes and late ontogenetic stages - Aquatic Sciences
Ostracods are ecologically important indicators of aquatic ecosystem conditions because of their broad distribution and sensitivity to environmental change. As ectotherms, they are especially responsi...
link.springer.com
September 9, 2026 at 7:04 AM
mesquitajoanes.bsky.social
Testing for the Presence of Photobionts in Eucypris virens (Crustacea: Ostracoda) Green Valves. Happy to see this published after decades of research. 😀 #Ostracoda
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Testing for the Presence of Photobionts in <fi>Eucypris virens</fi> (Crustacea: Ostracoda) Green Valves
Crustaceans exhibit a wide range of organic pigments with different colorations and functions. However, little is known about the origin and function of the characteristic green pigmentation that ...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 24, 2026 at 8:15 AM
mesquitajoanes.bsky.social
Happy to share our new publication A new species of Elpidium Müller, 1880 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Hispaniola, with an updated key to the species of the genus, and its molecular phylogenetic positioning within the Cytheroidea zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php...
#Ostracoda #Crustacea #Phytotelmata
A new species of Elpidium Müller, 1880 (Crustacea, Ostracoda) from Hispaniola, with an updated key to the species of the genus, and its molecular phylogenetic positioning within the Cytheroidea
The ostracod genus Elpidium, a specialist of phytotelma habitats, has received increased attention during the past decade, with a proliferation of described species, rising from seven to nineteen. The...
zookeys.pensoft.net
March 28, 2025 at 7:40 PM
mesquitajoanes.bsky.social
Combined effects of temperature and salinity on the metabolic rate of Heterocypris salina (Ostracoda, Cyprididae). www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Combined effects of temperature and salinity on the metabolic rate of Heterocypris salina (Ostracoda, Cyprididae).
Temperature and salinity are considered critical factors affecting the metabolism of freshwater crustaceans. However, experimental research aimed at assessing their interacting effects on oxygen up...
www.tandfonline.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
paleogalli.bsky.social
Implicações paleoambientais da fauna de ostrácodes (Crustacea, Ostracoda) de águas profundas na Bacia Norueguesa durante o Pleistoceno Médio (10–15 MIS) fr.pensoft.net/article/1772...
Palaeoenvironmental implications of the deepwater ostracod (Crustacea, Ostracoda) fauna in the Norwegian Basin during the Middle Pleistocene (MIS 10–15)
This paper presents the Pleistocene Ostracoda (Crustacea) record of Calypso piston core MD992277, recovered from the Norwegian Basin at 2,800 m water depth along the Jan-Mayen Ridge. The core was part...
fr.pensoft.net
March 26, 2026 at 8:53 PM
jaybugjabbers.bsky.social
Ohh here's one about breeding seed shrimp too
michael-langerman.medium.com/how-to-breed...
How to Breed Seed Shrimp Ostracoda
Different types of seed shrimp (Ostracoda) live in most water bodies on our planet. I found them in the ponds of Central park of NYC while…
michael-langerman.medium.com
January 26, 2025 at 7:31 AM
aardwark.bsky.social
Daí vc vai para a restinga, coleta água de bromélias e começa a procurar o de costume, Copépode, Rotiphera, Ostracoda e, algo de estranho na lente do microscópio! Um serzindo ciliado, em uma estrutura tubular. Um Briozoario, só que um monte! E colado em um Ostracoda! "O piolho tem piolho com piolho!
July 26, 2026 at 6:42 PM
mesquitajoanes.bsky.social
Differential metabolic response to temperature among populations of Cyprideis torosa (Jones, 1850) (Ostracoda: Cytherideidae) url: academic.oup.com/jcb/article-...
Differential metabolic response to temperature among populations of Cyprideis torosa (Jones, 1850) (Ostracoda: Cytherideidae)
Abstract. Rising global temperatures reduce oxygen solubility in water bodies while increasing the metabolic demands of aquatic ectotherms. Oxygen consumpt
academic.oup.com
December 15, 2025 at 6:15 PM
thepalass.bsky.social
Predatory behaviour on Ostracoda: spatial analysis of drill-hole distribution in relation to shell size and ornamentation onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #FossilFriday @mnritter.bsky.social @ufrgs.br
Top left: map showing Valparaiso and Santiago (red diamonds) in Chile (shaded grey) and the study region outlined in red. To the right are two black and white photographs of drilled left valves of ostracods from the Miocene Navidad Formation. Upper image is Cytherella with drill hole trace Oichnus simplex; lower image is Apatihowella with hole trace O. paraboloides. Each photograph has a scale bar in the lower left corner, which is 100 microns. Lower right plot is a frequency distribution for outer drill hole diameter (vertical axis), with trace O. paraboloides on the left, in red, and O. simplex on the right in blue. Blue rectangle at the top in the centre is a cover image from the journal Palaeontology.
August 28, 2026 at 8:13 AM
andreuescriva.bsky.social
Un article del meu antic grup de recerca a la UV on estudien ostracodes d'una bassa que els vaig mostrar pels volts de Llíria. Un d'aquells ecosistemes marginals, que ha servit de pàrking i abocador, entaforat entre un club d'aeromodelisme i camps de mandarines.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Oxygen uptake in two temporary pond ostracods (Crustacea: Ostracoda) in response to different temperatures and salt contents: testing the Metabolic Cold Adaptation hypothesis
Temporary ponds experience wide variation in their physical and chemical conditions, including changes in temperature and salinity, two critical facto…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 14, 2026 at 7:26 PM
belaforams.bsky.social
In #FossilSketch, students learn #foraminifera and #ostracoda morphology from videos, learn to ID taxa with games, and collect data from assemblages all from their computer. For the Matagorda study Paige is presenting at #AGU24, students see the effects of pollution and remediation on the faunas.
Screen shot from fossilSketch showing videos: "Why do we study microfossils" and "learn about ostracoda and foraminifera" Screen shot from FossilSketch showing four of the minigames: "value orientation" with a picture of an ostracod, "morphotypes" with pictures of forams, "Outline" with pictures of ostracods, and "chambers" with pictures of foraminifera. Screen shot from FossilSketch showing the first step of the genus identification exercise where students are asked to sketch the outline of a foraminifera over a high quality photomicrograph of the specimen. The specimens are photographed from three angles. Screenshot from FossilSketch showing and assemblage exercise where multiple specimens are strewn across a photo and students are asked to identify the different species to make interpretations about what the environment looked like before human impacts, during the height of polluting activities, and after environmental remediation efforts.
December 12, 2024 at 2:33 PM
icdp-ecn.bsky.social
Before joining the ICDP ECR Network, Olga was also part of the PAGES ECN. She also co-organizes the European School on Ostracoda every year — a great place to discover just how fascinating these tiny crustaceans are.
April 12, 2026 at 9:12 PM