#Taxonomyworkshop2024

sea star with arms, surface covered with spines and brown colors

A very formidable asteriid sea star, Astrostole platei from the vicinity of Rapa Nui! #echinoday #taxonomyworkshop2024 #chile

man with blond hair with video screen showing off a brittle star

Brittle star on video screen

Man with dark shirt in front of video screen showing off a brittle star

@drtimohara.bsky.social from Museum Victoria showing off Ophiomoeris! #Taxonomyworkshop2024 #Chile

..and here's yours truly working at the Sala de Colecciones Biológicas UCN, Campus Guayacán, Coquimbo, Chile on #deepsea stars courtesy of support by @oceancensus.bsky.social ! How many new species will we find? #echinoday #taxonomyworkshop2024

Among one of my favorite #deepsea sea stars? this weird deep-sea asterinid called Tremaster mirabilis! They are found worldwide! Atlantic, Pacific, Indian, in the 350-500 m range! @oceancensus.bsky.social #echinoday #taxonomyworkshop2024

blobby purple pentagon with 5 white tips

Turn it over and it is a starfish with 5 rows of tube feet and a mouth at center. purple-fleshy colored.

WHOA. there's a sea star that looks like side of blobby ham? YES! Hymenaster -aka a deep-sea slime star! These get to be the side of your hand! Working on determining whether it is known or not! thanks @oceancensus.bsky.social #echinoday #taxonomyworkshop2024 Chile!

man with blond hair in grey jacket looking into microscope at large pineapple shaped sea urchin

large pineapple shaped sea urchin under a microscope

2 people, one in grey jacket and another in white shirt looking into microscope at large pineapple shaped sea urchin

MOAR #deepsea #TaxonomyWorkshop2024 CHILE courtesy of @oceancensus.bsky.social Dr. Kiril Minin, an expert on deep-sea urchins from the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology examines a specimen of the AMAZING urchin, DERMECHINUS horridus! What will he find? #echinoday @drtimohara.bsky.social guest stars!

Australian man smiling wearing a white shirt with a jar containing a snake star on a coral

A snake star with long curled arms on a pink coral

man in white shirt with jar containing snake star on pink coral in foreground, background with microscope and sample jars

The @oceancensus.bsky.social #taxonomyWorkshop2024 in Chile CONTINUES! Here, drtimohara.bsky.social, world ophiuroid expert from #museumvictoria studies ASTEROSCHEMA one of the most widespread #deepea serpent stars! #echinoday How many new? species will we find?? #falkor