
The Invertebrate Collections
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The Invertebrate Collections is one of the University Museum's large collections of scientific zoological material. We use this blog to inform those interested in Cultural History, Natural history, and Botanical Gardens.
The Invertebrate Collections
3M ago
From the 13th to 20th of October, we were on fieldwork again! This time the end destination was Sletvik field station. Sletvik field station belongs to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim (NTNU). The team of NorDigBryo (digitization of Norwegian Bryozoa) had organized a workshop there and team snail was invited to ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
4M ago
Don’t miss out in the coming exhibition at the University Museum! Jellyfish unveiled will be open 4.-30. October at Muséplassen 3 in Bergen (link) Feared and misunderstood, jellyfish are often dismissed as little more than ocean pests. Over 100 species of jellies live in Norwegian waters, but most people are unaware of the delicate balance they bring ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
5M ago
After the Summer break the hunt for small snails continues. This time the museum staff got invited by Vivian Husa from the Institute of Marine Research and Erling Svensen underwater photographer and author of Marine fish & invertebrates of Northern Europe to come and help with marine biodiversity assessment in Egersund. Egersund is a small village ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
6M ago
Have you ever heard about chaetognaths, aka arrow worms? They are a phylum of worm-like animals mostly found as part of planktonic communities worldwide. Their name originates from chaeto (spines) and gnatha (jaws). As you can see in the picture below, their name refers to their hooked, grasping spines located on each side of their ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
7M ago
In the last week of June, the MAnDAriN project (Marine Annelid Diversity of Arctic Norway, homepage here) went for another* field trip to the areas around Tromsø.
This time we were focused on intertidal sampling in the inner fjords.
Figure 1. Different habitats sampled during the second field trip of MAnDAriN to Tromsø area (Photo by N. Budaeva).
Besides Nataliya and Tom, the sampling team included a dedicated young naturalist interested in digging up worms on the mudflats and watching for seabirds.
Figure 2. Sampling of marine annelids (polychaetes) (Photo by N. Budaeva).
Two researchers ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
8M ago
Fresh off the press:
“Diversity of Orbiniella (Orbiniidae, Annelida) in the North Atlantic and the Arctic“,
published in ZooKeys. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1205.120300 (link goes to paper, it is Open Access)
In this recent publication, PhD candidate Miguel and his co-authors present three new species of marine bristle worms (polychaeta) in the family Orbiniidae, all from the genus Orbiniella.
The work focused on studying the diversity of the group from the North Atlantic and the Arctic, and has used a combination of molecular and morphological analyses.
The new species have been na ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
8M ago
From 21 till 28th of May, researchers, technicians, and students of the University Museum’s marine section, travelled up North to Torsvåg, close to Tromsø, for joint fieldwork. The participants represented several Artsdatabanken projects that cover marine fungi, hydrozoans, polychaetes, parasites of jellyfish, comb jellies and chaetognaths, bryozoans, marine amphipods and finally the Lower Heterobranchia and Pyramidellidae gastropods. In this blog you can read about the general experience of the fieldwork and more details about the different projects. And here you can read about the fieldwork ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
9M ago
“Ooh ooh ooh! I found a parasite! Bonita!”
– A phrase not usually heard in the fishing harbor of Torsvåg! But this week was far from the usual fishing business.
Lea (left) and Eva (right) out sampling on the boat. Photos: Eva Samson & Nataliya Budaeva
Heisann!
We are Eva and Lea, and we’re marine biology students in the second semester of our masters degree.
Since we’re writing our master’s theses at the University Museum, we got to be a part of the fieldwork in Torsvåg (Troms) in the last week of May.
Welcome to our first sampling trip with the researchers from the University Museum o ..read more
The Invertebrate Collections
9M ago
Torsvåg lighthouse. Graphic from norgeskart.no)
During the last week of May, eleven of us in “the marine group” went on fieldwork together, up far north.
Based in Torsvåg (see map), we’ve collected material for several species mapping projects supported by the Norwegian Taxonomy Initiative (Artsprosjektet).
The UMB participants. From back left: Joan, Jon, Tom, Nataliya, Katrine, Cessa, Marta (guest of NOAH). Front from left: Lea, Luis, Eva and Praveen
The fieldwork originated from the collaboration between the projects “Norwegian Marine Fungi” (Teppo Rämä, UiT), “NOAH – Norwe ..read more