Did dinosaurs get bitten by mosquitoes? Can honey bees become botanists? Why would anyone collect worm bums? And can we find DNA in the air? Wild Collections explores some of the fascinating, strange and unique stories behind more than 15 million specimens cared for within CSIRO’s National Research Collections Australia. More than just pinned insects and pressed plants, these are stories of scientific discovery and cutting-edge research. This book offers us a rare glimpse into the world-cla...| CSIRO PUBLISHING
Delectopecten is a small genus of the family Pectinidae (Bivalvia: Pectinida) that remains poorly studied in terms of both morphology and phylogeny. Here, we describe the first member of this genus from deep-sea hydrothermal vent ecosystems, D. thermus sp. nov., based on morphological investigations and molecular analyses of a specimen collected from the Higashi–Ensei vent field (962-m depth) in the northern Okinawa Trough. Morphologically, this new species resembles D. vancouverensis and D...| CSIRO PUBLISHING