Okan Kulkoyluoglu conducted research in spring waters of the city of San Marcos, Texas<\/strong>, in the U.S. for a year.<\/p>\n He was assisted by assistant professors Benjamin F. Schwartz and Benjamin T. Hutchins from Texas State University.<\/p>\n Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Kulkoyluoglu said he collected samples from the main spring of an artesian well in Texas.<\/p>\n In the samples, he discovered seven species that are smaller than one millimeter.<\/p>\n He added that his research has been published in respected international journals.<\/p>\n \u201cWe also identified at least 15-20 new genuses and organisms at higher taxonomic ranks. Studies on these are ongoing. We are thinking about publishing them soon,\u201d Kulkoyluoglu said.<\/p>\n Kulkoyluoglu, who serves on the faculty at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu, Turkey, said that he specializes in freshwater ostracods, which have inhabited earth for 500 million years.<\/p>\n He added that so far, 70,000 species of the organism have been discovered.<\/p>\n Of the 2,000 freshwater species, 160 are found in Turkey<\/strong>, he said, adding that the number could be much higher.<\/p>\n Speaking about his discovery, he said: “Almost none of them have eyes. Their size is suitable for their underground habitat.”<\/p>\n He said they may be used to assist efforts for oil exploration.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Turkish professor has discovered seven new species of ostracods — tiny organisms which live under water.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,107],"tags":[77937,8209,77182,77571],"class_list":["post-60678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-health","tag-organism","tag-texas","tag-turkey","tag-underwater"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\u2018There are 160 species in Turkey\u2019<\/h3>\n