Catalogue of Organisms

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For the most part, bivalves are a fairly conservative bunch. They seem to have worked out what they are good at early on in their history an...

Copepod taxonomy, it seems, is largely about counting setae. In his review of relationships within the interstitial harpacticoid family Para...

Here in the Antipodes, we have a long history of environmental upheaval from exotic taxa unwisely released. As a result, one can't help ...

I do not envy those who find themselves working with ostracods. These minute crustaceans, typically less than a millimetre in length, seem a...

A quote I have often had cause to refer to—I believe it originally came from Toby White of Palaeos.com —is that "organisms are under no...