{"id":636,"date":"2025-12-10T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/?page_id=636"},"modified":"2025-12-10T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T16:00:01","slug":"species-of-the-month-august-2024","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/species-of-the-month\/species-of-the-month-august-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Species of the Month &#8211; August 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>August 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-571 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Hoftherma-1024x666.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"666\" srcset=\"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Hoftherma-1024x666.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Hoftherma-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Hoftherma-768x500.jpg 768w, https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/Hoftherma.jpg 1442w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This specimen of <em>Hoftherma hatsushimaensis<\/em> gen. et sp. nov. is a new species of acoel discovered at a deep-sea hydrocarbon seep. It was collected on October 24, 2021 at a depth of 911 m, among<i>\u00a0Bathymodiolus<\/i> aggregations, off Hatsushima Island in Sagami Bay, Japan; by Dr. Natsumi Hookabe.<\/p>\n<p>Hookabe, N.; Jimi, N.; Furushima, Y. &amp; Fujiwara, Y. (2024) Discovery of deep-sea acoels from a chemosynthesis-based ecosystem. <em>Biology Letters<\/em>, <strong>20<\/strong>:20230573. doi: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1098\/rsbl.2023.0573\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10.1098\/rsbl.2023.0573<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 2024 This specimen of Hoftherma hatsushimaensis gen. et sp. nov. is a new species of acoel discovered at a deep-sea hydrocarbon seep. It was collected on October 24, 2021 at a depth of 911 m, among\u00a0Bathymodiolus aggregations, off Hatsushima Island in Sagami Bay, Japan; by Dr. Natsumi Hookabe. Hookabe, N.; Jimi, N.; Furushima, Y. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":477,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-636","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=636"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":637,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/636\/revisions\/637"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meiofauna.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}