S2E2: A new amphipod from Japan!

Dr. Kris White and Sally Sir are our guests as they talk about their paper in which they describe a new species of amphipod from Japan in the February 1st issue of Zootaxa.

Ms. Sir is an undergraduate at Georgia College and State University, and Dr. White is an Assistant Professor of Biology in the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences at GCSU.

We discuss what an amphipod is (because not everybody seems to know that!), where they generally live, how they were found, their role in ecosystems as food and bioindicators, and the joys of dissecting very tiny specimens to draw pictures!

The title of the paper is “Maerid amphipods (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Okinawa, Japan with description of a new species.” The paper is currently available here: https://www.mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5000.5.6

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