Meet Melita panda, a newly discovered black-and-white crustacean with panda-like coloring, revealing Japan's coastal biodiversity.

Decades after it was first found in Japan, a species of crustacean with unique black-and-white coloring that resembles a ...

Decades ago, Shigeyuki Yamato scanned the shallow coastal waters of southeastern Japan and saw something stand out from the ...

The Melita panda, a newly classified amphipod species found in Japan, illustrates the critical role of taxonomy in ...

“Study on the amphipod Crustacea in the coastal zone of Japan is lagging behind. In order to accurately assess species diversity, taxonomic studies are necessary. We hope the discovery of a new ...

Decades after it was first found in Japan, a species of crustacean with unique black-and-white coloring that resembles a panda has been confirmed to be new to science. Melitid amphipods are ...

As a first step toward species conservation, we conducted a taxonomic study of amphipod Crustacea, which boasts high species diversity around Japan,” Tomikawa said in an Oct. 24 news release ...