Sea stars
Date
1869
Creator
Pieter Willem Marius Trap (1821 - 1905, Dutch) , Lithographer
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Dimensions
height (page): 355mm
width (page): 264mm
width (page): 264mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological studies of three sea stars, or starfish. Figure 1 Ophidiaster tuberculatus [now termed Nardoa tuberculata]. Figure 2 Asteropsis carinfera, commonly known as the Sheriff-badge sea star. Figure 3 Goniodiscus sebae [now termed Culcita novaeguineae], commonly known as the Cushion star.
Plate 2 from the paper ‘Échinodermes, peintes d'après nature par les soins de Kuhl, Van Hasselt et Sal. Muller…’, published in the journal Bijdragen tot de dierkunde (Amsterdam, M Westerman & Zoon, 1869).
Inscribed above: ‘ECHINODERMES. PL.II.’ Inscribed below: ‘Steendr. v. P.M.W. Trap.’
Plate 2 from the paper ‘Échinodermes, peintes d'après nature par les soins de Kuhl, Van Hasselt et Sal. Muller…’, published in the journal Bijdragen tot de dierkunde (Amsterdam, M Westerman & Zoon, 1869).
Inscribed above: ‘ECHINODERMES. PL.II.’ Inscribed below: ‘Steendr. v. P.M.W. Trap.’