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

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

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

Melitid amphipods are shrimp-like crustaceans found worldwide. The newly classified Melita panda-- named after the charismatic mammal -- was first found in the 1990s. Details of the discovery and ...

West Thumb Geyser Basin, along the southwest shore of West Thumb Basin in western Yellowstone Lake, is one of Yellowstone’s ...

“Its gnathopods, which are claws that extend from the second thoracic segment, sit more forward than other Melita amphipods, covering another one of its appendages,” researchers said.

Previous work by Professor Ford has demonstrated that small shrimp-like crustaceans called amphipods that graze on seaweeds in Langstone Harbor have low sperm counts. Research by the University of ...

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 shrimp-like crustaceans found worldwide.

Farther offshore, in 3 to 4 meters (10 to 13 feet) of water, low-temperature (15‒20 °C, or 59–68 °F) vents commonly are ...