‘The Parasitic Anemone’
Date
1854
Creator
Nicholas Hanhart (British) , Printmaker
After
Philip Henry Gosse (1810 - 1888, British) , Illustrator
Object type
Library reference
41386
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 136mm
width (print): 85mm
width (print): 85mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Underwater scene showing the parasitic anemone (described by the author as Actinia parasitica accepted taxonomy now Calliactis parasitica) on a whelk shell. The brittlestar Ophiothrix fragilis is shown in the foreground.
The author commented in the text that he had collected specimens in Weymouth Bay, Dorset: ‘This fine and very distinct species is exceedingly abundant in Weymouth Bay...it is found embracing some univalve shell, which is tenanted by a Soldier Crab...but adults...almost invariably on the great Whelk...’
Plate 4 from the book The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea, by Phillip Henry Gosse (Van Voorst, London, 1854). Inscribed: ‘Pl.IV. P.H.Gosse, delt. Hanhart, Chromo lith. THE PARASITIC ANEMONE &c.’
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was a populariser of marine biology and an aquarium inventor elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.
The author commented in the text that he had collected specimens in Weymouth Bay, Dorset: ‘This fine and very distinct species is exceedingly abundant in Weymouth Bay...it is found embracing some univalve shell, which is tenanted by a Soldier Crab...but adults...almost invariably on the great Whelk...’
Plate 4 from the book The aquarium: an unveiling of the wonders of the deep sea, by Phillip Henry Gosse (Van Voorst, London, 1854). Inscribed: ‘Pl.IV. P.H.Gosse, delt. Hanhart, Chromo lith. THE PARASITIC ANEMONE &c.’
Philip Henry Gosse (1810-1888) was a populariser of marine biology and an aquarium inventor elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1856.
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