Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11146

    Studies of three crabs

    Date
    1848-1852
    Creator
    Arnoldus Jacobus Kouwels (1824 - 1888, Dutch)
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 355mm
    width (page): 265mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine zoological studies of three crustaceans: the Calico crab Hepatus epheliticus (here termed Hepatus vanbenedenii), figure I and details Ia-Ic; the Pebble crab Pariphiculus mariannae (here termed Ilia mariannae) figure 2; and two details of Lithodes maja (here styled Lithodes arctica) figures A-B.

    Plate from the paper ‘Notice carcinologique’ by J A Herklots, published in the journal Bijdragen tot de dierkunde. Deel 1. (Amsterdam, M. Westerman & Zoon, 1848-1854).

    Inscribed below with species names and artists: ‘A.J. Kouwels, del. P.W.M.Trap Impr.’

    Jan Adrian Herklots (fl.1850s) was a Dutch natural historian.
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