Capture and Real-Time Enrichment of Marine Chemical Diversity.

Analyzing the chemical composition of seawater to understand its influence on ecosystem functions is a long-lasting challenge due to the inherent complexity and dynamic nature of marine environments. Describing the intricate chemistry of seawater requires optimal sampling. Here is presented a novel underwater hand-held solid-phase extraction device, I-SMEL (In Situ Marine moleculELogger), which aims to concentrate diluted molecules from large volumes of seawater in a delimited zone targeting keystone benthic species.

The Station Marine d'Endoume, Marseille: 150 years of natural history.

When marine natural sciences began to be the concern of most European scientists, in the middle of the 19th century, Marseille, in southern France, was no exception. The creation, ca. 150 years ago, of the first Zoology Laboratory of the Faculty of Sciences of Marseille took place in 1868.

First report of the order Mysida (Crustacea) in Antarctic marine ice caves, with description of a new species of and investigations on the taxonomy, morphology and life habits of species.

SCUBA diving explorations of three islands off Dumont d'Urville Station at the coast of Adélie Land, East Antarctica, enabled the observation of marine ice caves. Sampling in this unusual habitat yielded a total of three species of Mysidae, altogether previously poorly known or unknown to science. is described, based on the structure of the antennal scale, telson and on cornea-like lateral portions set off against the main body of eyeplates.

Microbial associations of shallow-water Mediterranean marine cave Solenogastres (Mollusca).

The first cave-dwelling Solenogastres-marine shell-less worm-like mollusks-were sampled from Mediterranean marine caves floor silt in the Marseille area. The mollusks were 1.5 mm in length, had a transparent body with shiny spicules and appear to represent a new species.

Rediscovery of the rare Mediterranean marine cave stenopodid shrimp emOdontozona/em emaddaia/em Pretus, 1990, 30 years after its original description (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea).

Thirty years after its first finding and description, the marine cave stenopodid shrimp Odontozona addaia is here reported for the second time. The new localities, particular marine caves of southern France, are more than 300 km apart from the type locality in the Balearic Islands. First live in situ photographs are provided, and the morphological intraspecific variability is detailed by comparing the new specimens to the types.