Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11175

    Brittle stars

    Date
    1869
    Creator
    Pieter Willem Marius Trap (1821 - 1905, Dutch) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Material
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    Dimensions
    height (page): 355mm
    width (page): 264mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Marine zoological studies of two brittle stars. Figure 1 Ophioplocus imbricatus. Figure 2 Ophiocoma picta [now termed Ophiarthrum pictum]. Both species are native to the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

    Plate 5 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.V.’ Inscribed below: ‘Steendr. v. P.M.W. Trap.’

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