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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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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Nice all-aspects work on 9 new glossiphoniid mussel leeches from Asia by Bolotov et al. Adding the names now, genera Batracobdelloides & Hemiclepsis https://t.co/GPqu1qJ8r4 (these are harmless little guys, not people-biters)

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on this a shoutout to the worm Diopatra spp., w/ its iridescent appearance and unique shell tubes that can cover the seafloor.

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I'm using this week's as an excuse to post another video 😅

Here's a small and a tardigrade getting slightly tangled up in it.

🐛🧸🔬 late 🦠

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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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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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