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

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 ...

DOG walkers have been warned as hundreds of venomous jellyfish with tentacles that can grow up to 10ft-long have been spotted ...

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 ...

Beyond Melita panda, Tomikawa emphasized that there is still more to study. “Further taxonomic studies on amphipods in uninvestigated areas are expected to lead to the discovery of additional ...

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 ...

In this valuable study, the authors attempt to reconstruct the evolutionary history of a large and widespread group of freshwater fishes (Nemacheilidae) across Eurasia since the early Eocene, based on ...