For here are some electric/fire types: Sparkate, Plasmakate, and Plasmagician

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For this here are a pair of parasitic nematodes named after Pokémons!
- Hedruris dratini is found in the stomach of freshwater turtles
https://t.co/SfRMlZYmP9
- Parapharyngodon politoedi lives in the intestine of tree frogs
https://t.co/NCI8MvJCqq

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For International a Twitter Moment with all of our Tweets from 2021 for you to see: https://t.co/KO50eKYvLg

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✅ your daily dose of knowledge 🤪 „Egelbrecht and the cocoon“

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Oh hey there twitter I made some designs for my redbubble lmao

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its baby!!!!!
here's a painting of a planarian about to enjoy a small piece of freeze dried liver!!

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by : Aquatic planarians have distinctive heads-shapes: e.g. round, pointy, triangular or spatulated, with short or long auricles, two or more eyes…

Some individuals even have two heads, but this is a tweet for another day...

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Oh no, I missed I worked with them for a bit, I’ll always have a soft spot for my worms.

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Ever wondered why plants & a few animals, were named 'officinalis' in Latin? Me too. It's cos they were kept in an 'officina' prep room for med treatments. Here's Savigny's Sanguisuga officinalis leech versus S. medicinalis of Linnaeus. Fig by Moquin-Tandon

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Eurytrema coelomaticum is a fluke which commonly infects the pancreatic ducts of ruminants, and is of significant veterinary importance.

This study used advanced microscopy techniques to provide updated details on this parasite's anatomy
 

https://t.co/OKVnsdiYUZ

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2020

Sabellastarte spectabilis (Grube, 1878)

"Indian feather duster", Palau 🇵🇼
photo ©️ Florent Charpin via reefguide
Size: up to 4 in. (10 cm)
Depth: 10-100 ft. (3-30 m)
Distribution: Indo-Pacific, Hawaii

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A new species of maggot worm was discovered in 1991 in Milford Haven by scientists. It is called Scalibregma celticum after its Welsh roots https://t.co/54hyl4KNdK

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This we are busy preparing the final touches on the 'Wriggle! The Wonderful World of Worms' Exhibition which will open on the 25th January https://t.co/BHkxyyb6pp

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Reading an awesome acorn worm developmental bio paper. It can be so hard to find a clear drawing of a really specific structure (especially ones lost in ontogeny, like the juvenile post-anal tail); useful for my postdoc on their Cambrian cousins

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Velvet worms may not be worms, but they are crowd favourites for obvious reasons...
🐛💕

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For here's Parapharyngodon politoedi - a species of nematode found in the Manaus slender-legged tree frog (Osteocephalus taurinus), and is named after Politoed, a frog-like water-type Pokémon
https://t.co/gylxQ3KItv

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McIntosh's "A monograph of British Marine Annelids" was published over a 50 year period (1873-1923). McIntosh's sister Roberta & Ada H. Walker produced most of the for the work. View it in via : https://t.co/abTfQfmGlh

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