Citizen scientists discover a new species of semi-slug
Citizen scientists have discovered a new species of semi-slug – also known as ‘snugs’ – in a forest in Brunei, on the Island of Borneo.
Source: cosmosmagazine.com
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Citizen scientists have discovered a new species of semi-slug – also known as ‘snugs’ – in a forest in Brunei, on the Island of Borneo.
Teams of citizen scientists on expeditions in the tropical rainforest of Brunei (Borneo) have discovered a new species of ‘semislug’. Working with the scientific travel agency Taxon Expeditions, they managed to study the specimens, even analyse their DNA, in a field camp in the heart of the forest. The new species, published this week in the Biodiversity Data Journal, has been named Microparmarion sallehi, after the field centre’s supervisor.