SOSA’s Prof. Dr. Julia Sigwart delivered a keynote presentation at the 10th #EUROMAL2024@sgn.one@sigwartae.bsky.social 📸: Anita Eschner, Natural History Museum Vienna

We're Hiring! SOSA is looking for a Red List Assessor to support us in the input of assessment data into the IUCN Species Information Service. Essential: passion for marine invertebrate conservation and attention to detail. No biology background necessary! Apply by Sep. 30: tinyurl.com/RLAssessor

Deep-sea bivalve, 𝘓𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢𝘦𝘴𝘢, and describer, Dr. Fabrizio Marcondes Machado, are in the media spotlight! This article highlights the non-invasive techniques used to describe this species, one of the 12 #OceanSpeciesDiscoveriestinyurl.com/illaesa@fabrizius.bsky.social@sgn.one

Método inovador ajuda na descrição de novo molusco carnívoro | Almanaque de Curiosidades

Brasileiro foi pioneiro no uso de microtomografia para caracterização taxonômica de invertebrados marinhos

Last week, SOSA’s Discovery team was at a workshop to study polychaetes from one of the deepest and least explored places on Earth – the Aleutian Trench! 19 individuals came together to identify and check if specimens collected from the 2022 @sgn.one AleutBio expedition were new to science!

Check out this article featuring one of SOSA’s #OceanSpeciesDiscoveriesjornal.unicamp.br/edicao/712/c...@sigwartae.bsky.social, Dr. Machado contributed the species description for the 2.7 mm deep-sea bivalve, 𝙇𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙨𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙖 𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙚𝙨𝙖.

‘Curadores’ do mar profundo - Jornal da Unicamp

Risco de extinção faz rede mundial de taxonomistas acelerar o processo de descrição de novas espécies marinhas

AND explore a 3D model of the shell plate of this fossil chiton on SOSA's SketchFab: sketchfab.com/3d-models/ho...

Meet the Youngest-Oldest Fossil Chiton: Hookisplax byrneae. This new genus and species discovery is exciting because it suggests that ancient fossil chitons might have coexisted with the ancestors of modern chitons. Check out @sigwartae.bsky.socialmuse.jhu.edu/article/935023

!!𝟭𝟭 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘁𝗲𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘀!! SOSA’s newest publication, Ocean Species Discoveries, aims to accelerate the pace at which new marine invertebrate species are described and published. Check out the new species and paper here: bdj.pensoft.net/article/1284...@sigwartae.bsky.social@sgn.one

Ocean Species Discoveries 1–12 — A primer for accelerating marine invertebrate taxonomy

Discoveries of new species often depend on one or a few specimens, leading to delays as researchers wait for additional context, sometimes for decades. There is currently little professional incentive...

“Many of the living giant clam species are seriously in peril,” -@sigwartae.bsky.social. Last week, NOAA proposed to list 10 giant clam species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. tinyurl.com/3btn75cr SOSA is also working to protect giant clams, but through a different list – the IUCN Red List!

Giant clams, iconic and imperiled, may get U.S. endangered species protection

Marine biologists support federal proposal, but the aquarium industry worries it may be counterproductive

Last week, SOSA’s PROTECT team met with both the IUCN Red List and the British Antarctic Survey! SOSA's protection efforts focus on adding marine invertebrate species to the IUCN Red List. Find out more about SOSA’s protection work here: sosa.senckenberg.de/en/protect@sigwartae.bsky.social