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Image number: RS.11009
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‘Ragactis, Anemonia, Aiptasia…' [Sea anemones]
Date
1884
Creator - Organisation
Werner & Winter GmbH, Lithographers
After
Angelo Andres (1851 - 1934, Italian) , Zoologist
Object type
Library reference
29641
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 320mm
width (print): 252mm
width (print): 252mm
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Description
Marine biological studies showing seven figures of sea anemones classified by the author as: Ragactis pulchra (now Phymanthus pulcher, figures 1-2); Anemonia contarini (now Paranemonia cinerea, figure 3); Aiptasia mutabilis (trumpet anemone, figure 4); Bunodeopsis strumosa (figure 5); Paranthus chromatoderus (figure 6); and Paractinia striata (figure 7).
Plate 13 from the Naples Zoological Station journal series, this volume Le attinie. Monografia del Dr Angelo Andres (Leipzig, Wilhelm Englemann, 1884). German title: Fauna und flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden meres-abschniitte…von der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. IX monographie: Die Actinien von Dr Angelo Andres.
Inscribed below: ‘Ragactis, Anemonia, Aiptasia, Bunodeopsis, Paranthus, Paractinia.. A. Andres ad viv pinx. Verlag v.Wilh.Engelmann, Leipzig. Lith. Anst.v.Werner & Winter, Frankfurt a/M.’
Angelo Andres (1851-1934) was a marine zoologist and friend of Felix Anton Dohrn FRS (1840-1909) first Director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy.
Plate 13 from the Naples Zoological Station journal series, this volume Le attinie. Monografia del Dr Angelo Andres (Leipzig, Wilhelm Englemann, 1884). German title: Fauna und flora des Golfes von Neapel und der Angrenzenden meres-abschniitte…von der Zoologischen Station zu Neapel. IX monographie: Die Actinien von Dr Angelo Andres.
Inscribed below: ‘Ragactis, Anemonia, Aiptasia, Bunodeopsis, Paranthus, Paractinia.. A. Andres ad viv pinx. Verlag v.Wilh.Engelmann, Leipzig. Lith. Anst.v.Werner & Winter, Frankfurt a/M.’
Angelo Andres (1851-1934) was a marine zoologist and friend of Felix Anton Dohrn FRS (1840-1909) first Director of the Stazione Zoologica, Naples, Italy.
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