Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11819

    Sea mouse and worms

    Date
    1765
    Creator
    J Rhodius (Dutch) , Illustrator
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 210mm
    width (print): 405mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine zoological studies of worms. Figures 1-4 Sea mouse Aphrodita aculeate, with details. Figure 5 the scale worm Lepidonotus squamatus (here styled Aphrodita squamatus). Figure 6 the worm Nereis pelagica.

    Plate 6 from Opuscula subseciva, observations miscellaneas de animalculis et plantis…Tom. II. Liber II, by Job Baster (Haarlem, 1765). The plate is inscribed above ‘TAB.VI’.

    Job Baster (1711-1775) Dutch physician and naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1738.
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