Credit: © The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.9855
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    ‘Ascidiae’ [sea squirts]

    Date
    1899
    Creator
    Adolf Giltsch (1852 - 1911, German) , Lithographer
    After
    Ernst Haeckel (1834 - 1919, German) , Biologist
    Object type
    Library reference
    42553
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 357mm
    width (print): 279mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Fourteen figures of ascidians, or sea squirts, marine filter-feeders:

    1-3 Cynthia melocactus, including ‘mouth’ and bisected views; 4 Molgula tubulosa; 5 Fragarium elegans; 6-7 Polyclinum constellatum; 8 Synoecum turgens; 9 Botryllus polycyclus; 10 Botryllus rubigo; 11 Botryllus marionis; 12 Botryllus helleborus; 13 Polycyclus cyaneus; 14 Botrylloides purpureus.

    Plate 85 from Kunstformen der natur by Ernst Haeckel (Leipzig, Wien, Bibliographische Institut, 1899-1904).

    Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (1834-1919), German zoologist, naturalist and eugenicist, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society.
    Associated place
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