Hvis du har lyst til å lese litt om hva slags mosdyr vi har funnet i løpet av vårt #NorDigBryo prosjekt (som er et prosjekt støttet av Artsdatabanken), så ta en titt her: www.nhm.uio.no/forskning/pr...
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Happy Saturday @malihr.bsky.social made a lovely gallery with some beautiful #Norwegian #byrozoans specimens
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A new year means more facts about bryozoans we have come across during our #NorDigBryo project!
#Bryozoa #scicomm
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We might have found a new species for Norway, but is it an unknown species, an invasive species or a simply overlooked species? We don't actually know yet 🤔
#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa
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Gingerbread cookies and their real life counterparts; we have a spiky amphipod (like a shrimp with mohawk), a lugworm (worm with a fat end), a hermit crab whose googly eyes suggest it has forgotten to turn off the stove, a colony of Hydroids, a squid who in gingerbread looks a lot less menacing than IRL, a red worm that in Swedish s named the "red christmasgift-worm" as it looks like a giftwrapped package, and a chonky red sea star. All images by K. Kongshavn, except the live hydroid, which is made by L. Martell. The cookies were made by the fantastic participants on a #NorDigBryo bryozoa workshop
🎄✨🐟🐌🦐 Happy Holidays! 🎄✨🐟🐌🦐
These glorious cookies were made by the fantastic #NorDigBryo participants on a bryozoa workshop in Bergen in November. May 2026 bring you good coworkers equally willing to rise to the occasion!
#invertebrates #Invertefest #ScientificBaking #gingerbread
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It's always nice when we can use museum collections to do research and other projects! Here is an example from Norway with bryozoans from the 50s!
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#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa #scicomm
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An electron microscope image of Notoplites evocatus
A close up image of the zooids. The long and slender frontal avicularia is noticable.
Notoplites evocatus seems to be a species that prefers the deep sea. We have not found too many specimens of this species during our project, but the ones we have found have all been from deep sea samples.
#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa
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An electron microscopy image of a Harmeria scutulata colony
A close up image of how the outer zooids differ a lot in morphology from the "inner" zooids
Meet Harmeria scutulata!
We don't see this species often (or at all) these days. Registered (Norwegian) specimens are pretty much 50-100 years old, and we actually have no recent record of this species here in Norway as far as I know.
#Bryozoa #NorDigBryo
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Wrote a blog post about our workshop at the Espegrend Marine Station last week! #Bryozoa #NorDigBryo @bryozoology.bsky.social @hardbunnsfauna.bsky.social
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A photo of a gingerbread hornera
A selection of gingerbread bryozoans
A photo of a gingerbread Membranipora being "eaten" by a gingerbread nudibranch
Team #NorDigBryo is currently having a workshop, and gingerbread baking has been a fun activity in the evenings. We definitely had to make some bryozoans!
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A photo of two Triticella zooids. One of them has what looks like mini zooids growing out from it
Still finding Triticella-colonies. This zooid has some weird growths/buds 🧐 #artsdatabanken #nordigbryo #bryozoa
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Wrote a little thing about Celleporina caliciformis & decipiens and one character you can use to tell them apart! #Bryozoa #NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken
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I wrote a short post about some characters to use when identifying and differentiating between the cyclostome genera Hornera and Stigmatoechos!
#Artsdatabanken #NorDigBryo #Bryozoa
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A photo of a dead crustacean in ethanol. It is covered by small zooids
A close up of Triticella zooids. Thei have a long "stalk" and then you have the autozooid.
Today's cool museum collection discovery: Bryozoans growing on crustaceans!
I believe this ctenostome belongs to the genus Triticella, which is known to grow on specific groups of marine invertebrates 🦐
#bryozoa #nordigbryo #marineinvertebrates
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A photo of a flustra foliacea colony. It looks like a flat tree/plant with only a few branches
A close up image of flustra zooids. They are broadest in their distal part and they have small spines
I have come across some Flustra foliacea colonies when I've sorted through unidentified #bryozoa material🪸 Here you can see the colony form and a close up of the zooids
#nordigbryo #marineinvertebrates
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A photo of a bryozoan colony. The surface of the zooids looks like a net or web and they have paired avicularia
A photo of a bryozoan colony. The aperture is taking up much of the zooidal surface and small avicularia are scattered about
Some recent findings from this week! To the left: Cribrilina (Cribrilina) cryptooecium and to the right is what I believe to be Amphiblestrum auritum
#NorDigBryo #Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa
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Have a video of a bryozoan colony vs. a caprellidae! Video was taken during one of our #NorDigBryo workshops 🤓
#Bryozoa #marineinvertebrates
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A reminder that you can check out our #NorDigBryo blog here (and other information about the project! We do have a whole page for cool/interesting species that we've found) #Bryozoa #scicomm #norskforsk www.nhm.uio.no/english/rese...
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An electron microscopy image of a bryozoan colony. The zooids have many spines, and some zooids have a spherical-looking ovicell.
A close p electron microscopy image of Callopora weslawski, showing the row of additional spines on the lateral wall right under the regular spines
Another cool find during our #NorDigBryo project: Callopora weslawski. It's an Arctic species and is characterized by a row of additional spines on the vertical wall/gymnocyst (second image)
#Artsdatabanken #Bryozoa #marineinvertebrates
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Oh my goodness how beautiful it looks! 🤩
Very cool that a SEM photo of a Bryozoan from #NorDigBryo made it :) DO give a follow to Franz if you aren't already, and if you are on Insta, check out @NorDigBryo there!
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An electron microscope image of a y-shaped bryozoan colony, where the left "branch" has a round structure which is the gonozooid
A close up image of the round gonozooid, showing the tube-like ooeciostome on top of it
I generally find Crisia a difficult genus to deal with when it comes to separate the different species, but Crisia constans does have some characteristic round gonozooids that makes it possible to identify!
#NorDigBryo #Bryozoa #Scicomm #MarineInvertebrates
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Screenshot of the project instagram account, with a post showing a person giving a talk in a lab. On the blackboard behind her it says "Cool finds". and on the lab benches there are stereo microscopes and many little jars containing bryozoa (aka moss animals)
#TaxonomyThursday, and we're just back from a highly productive week at the field station working on #Bryozoa for the #NorDigBryo project!
Check out /@NorDigBryo on Insta for the latest news!
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A photo of a flowery looking bryozoan with long zooids and avicularia
A photo of eleven people standing in front of a chalkboard filled with "cool bryozoan finds" of the week
We ended up having a great time at the Espegrend workshop! Here is one of the weirder finds of the week: a Nordgaardia (a pretty weird bryozoan!) and team #NorDigBryo 🤓
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A one week workshop giving 700 newly registered observations of different norwegian #bryozoan species with #NorDigBryo an Artsdatabanken Project artsdatabanken.no with @malihr.bsky.social Jo Porter @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social and colleagues from NTNU and UiB
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A stereo microscope photo of a weird, almost plant/flowery looking bryozoan
A close up of Nordgaardia, showing the long and narrow avicularia
One of the weirder bryozoans out there: Nordgaardia 🤓
#NorDigBryo #Bryozoa #scicomm
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Looking forward to traveling to Bergen tomorrow for another #NorDigBryo workshop next week 🥰 Especially glad to have @nhmbryozoa.bsky.social joining us!
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A black and white electron microscope image of a multibudding/multilayered bryozoan colony with many small zooids, brood chambers and avicularia scattered inbetween
Plenty of different bryozoans from many, many samples have been identified as a part of our #NorDigBryo project, and Celleporina caliciformis is one of them! This species belongs to the family Celleporidae which is a very chaotic (in my honest opinion) group of bryozoans!
#Bryozoa #scicomm
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A scanning electron microscopy image of Coronopora truncata, showing the crown like colony structure
A scanning electron microscopy image of Coronopora truncata, showing the crown like colony structure
Our master student Maria decided to work with cyclostome bryozoans when she first laid her eyes on Coronopora truncata, and it's not hard to see why. It's a pretty elegant cyclostome that kind of looks like a crown, hence the name!
#NorDigBryo #Bryozoa #scicomm #NaturalHistory
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