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An arrow-worm from the genus Spadella. Alvariño discovered and classified the species Spadella gaetanoi in 1978.

Ángeles Alvariño: Woman of Many Namesakes

Latin names of species may seem boring—a litany of extra-long names in a dead...
August 2017

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