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Diversity of Planktonic Protists
Date : 05/11/2010
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Microzooplankton of Villefranche
Microzooplankton of Villefranche
Date : 08/10/2012
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Diversity of Planktonic Ciliates in the Bay of Villefranche
A large Strobilidium-type (A), the mixotroph Labeao strobila (B), Strombidium-type oligotrichs of various sizes (E, F, G, H, C), and mixotroph Tontonia-types (D, I)
Date : 13/06/2018
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Planktonic Protists: plants and grazers
Date : 27/01/2011
Affichages : 2500
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How to see microzooplankton
Microzooplankton sampling and sample processing. Samples of seawater from a desired depth are obtained using a Niskin bottle. The bottle (1), open at both ends, is lowered to the desired depth and then the top and bottom lids are closed. The water sample
Date : 31/10/2018
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Home away from home
Photo by Vincent Moncorgé photographe
Date : 27/12/2018
Affichages : 92
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PlanktonScape
November 2013
Date : 03/06/2014
Affichages : 1430
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"The Remains of The Day"
Tintinnid, Dinoflagellate and Radiolarian remains (no cytoplasm)
Date : 13/04/2019
Affichages : 19
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Arctic Micro Battle
Date : 30/01/2013
Affichages : 1857
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Ceratium Wheel
Ceratium symmetricum and a diatom from the Sea of Japan
Date : 18/10/2014
Affichages : 1480
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As if Gustav Klimt painted Laacckmanniella naviculaefera
Date : 04/12/2016
Affichages : 837
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Microzooplankton
Grazers of the plankton: Dinoflagellates (spindle-shaped Gyrodinium, spiny globe Protoperidinium) and a tintinnid ciliate (hairy-topped cell in a shell Favella)
Date : 17/10/2012
Affichages : 1884
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Dozens of different species of tintinnid ciliates (hairy things in the tiny shells), all of them grazers on microscopic algae
Date : 11/08/2011
Affichages : 1772
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Chatton PLate
From Edouard Chatton's chapter "Classe des Dinoflagelles ou Péridiniens" published posthumously (1952) in Traité de Zoologie, Tome 1A. Fig. 1 euglenoid Euglena intermedia; Fig. 2 dinoflagellate Gyrodinium melo; Fig. 3 dinoflagellate Amphidinium
Date : 15/03/2016
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A dinoflagellate (the tripod-shaped cell) sporting a silicoflagellate (star-shaped cell).
Date : 03/04/2009
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Tintinnids as tiny glasses for mermaids
Have a drink with a ciliate. Poroecus curtus and Rhabdonella spiralis as Biot glass stemware.
Date : 05/01/2013
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bluenaupli
Copepod nauplius from the Bay of Villefranche.
Date : 16/11/2015
Affichages : 1044
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Entering Warp Speed
Actually a colony of pennate diatoms rearranged.
Date : 05/05/2014
Affichages : 1331
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Micro Plea
Micro plea with apologies to Bo Diddley
Date : 24/05/2014
Affichages : 1462
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Radiosperma corbiferum Meunier 1910
Date : 10/03/2013
Affichages : 2346
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Some plankton protists have hard parts, shells or skeletons.
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 3609
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Dictyocha fibula, a silicoflagellate
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 3110
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Gold Star
Skeleton of the silicoflagellate Dictyocha speculum. Found in a sample taken in May 2014 from the Bay of Villefranche.
Date : 01/08/2014
Affichages : 1368
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Myrionecta or Mesodinium rubrum
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 3801
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Bacterivorous ciliate
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 3666
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A ciliate, Prorodon sp., has eaten pine pollen
Date : 29/09/2009
Affichages : 2421
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Tiarina fusus
Date : 27/04/2010
Affichages : 2807
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Swimmimg oligotrich ciliate with its prey
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 2627
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Laboea strobila
Date : 03/04/2009
Affichages : 3173
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A mixotrophic oligotrich ciliate: Tontonia
Date : 30/07/2010
Affichages : 2414
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Oligotrich ciliate from the Southern Ocean
A tontonnid oligotrich ciliate from the Amundsen Sea in Antarctica. Bouin's-fixed specimen imaged using a 20x objective.
Date : 29/08/2012
Affichages : 1549
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Torch?
Date : 04/06/2012
Affichages : 1536
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Arctic oligotrich ciliate Foissneridium constrictum
Foissneridium constrictum (probably according to Sabine Agatha). Species orginally described as Conocylis constricta by Meunier (inset) from the Kara Sea. Specimens shown from the Chukchi Sea (Arctic). Left panel shows ventral side, right panel the dors
Date : 24/03/2013
Affichages : 1536
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Strombidium-type oligotrich lugol's-fixed.
A common "30 something" (microns) Strombidium-like oligotrich from the Bay of Villefranche.
Date : 09/04/2014
Affichages : 1568
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Balanion sp. (perhaps B. comatum)
A very small planktonic ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in April 2014
Date : 09/04/2014
Affichages : 1362
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A marine Didinium
The predatory ciliate Didinium found at Point C in a sample from 30 m depth on June 19 2018
Date : 14/08/2018
Affichages : 128
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Haptophyte algae from the Bay of Villefranche
Date : 08/09/2010
Affichages : 2028
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A vibrio-like bacterium (not a protist) infected with viruses.
Date : 05/11/2010
Affichages : 2160
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Examples of the diversity of forms in species of the genus Ceratium, dinoflagellates of the phytoplankton (plants).
Date : 05/11/2010
Affichages : 2050
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Scyphosphaera apsteinii
Date : 07/12/2010
Affichages : 2688
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We usually assume that "Big Fish eat Little Fish" (Pieter Bruegel the Elder 1556)
Date : 13/11/2011
Affichages : 2734
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Van Leeuwenhoek Protists: A Foraminfera and a Ciliate
Date : 17/04/2011
Affichages : 2696
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Antony Van Leeuwenhoek
Date : 17/04/2011
Affichages : 2674
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The first description of a tintinnid species was in Otto Fredrick Müller's "Zoologica Danica" published in 1776.
Date : 23/06/2011
Affichages : 1680
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Snitch
Snitch from Harry Potter? No, likely Pterosperma vanhoeffenii
Date : 08/02/2013
Affichages : 1752
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Mermaids Collecting for Us
A Naturalist Day-Dream by Elisabeth Gullands. An adaptation (cameo version). The base image is at the end of John Murray's introduction to "A summary of the Scientific Results of the Voyage of the H.M.S. Challenger" C. W. Thompson & J. Mur
Date : 21/03/2012
Affichages : 1565
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Mermaid towing a plankton net in Villefranche
Photographing Mermaids is much more difficult than faries as they are fast swimmers.
Date : 22/08/2010
Affichages : 1605
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Favella ehrenbergi - 'fancy form'
Date : 30/11/2012
Affichages : 1668
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Pterosperma cuboides
Pterosperma cuboides
Date : 09/04/2013
Affichages : 1458
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Plankton Wear
Plankton Fashion Victims Triptych
Date : 30/01/2013
Affichages : 1419
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Tin Can
Date : 10/08/2011
Affichages : 1790
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Tintinnids of Ernst Haeckel
Date : 28/02/2012
Affichages : 2714
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Tintinnid as part of artwork - Mara Haseltine
Date : 11/03/2012
Affichages : 1777
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Sketch for La Boheme by Mara Haseltine
Date : 12/03/2012
Affichages : 1141
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Ceraphim by ThaliaAngel91
Date : 08/05/2011
Affichages : 1879
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Ceratium ranipes by Annika Lange
Date : 09/05/2011
Affichages : 1758
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A book of their own: The Biology and Ecology of Tintinnid Ciliates: models for marine plankton.
Date : 12/03/2012
Affichages : 1144
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Antarctic ciliate Euplotes
Date : 21/05/2012
Affichages : 1645
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Giant Tintinnid?
Date : 24/11/2012
Affichages : 1649
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Plankton organisms (mostly protists) from waters near Kiel, Germany, by Hans Lohmann (1908, Figure 7).
Date : 29/06/2011
Affichages : 2353
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Some of Karl Brandt's drawings of Dictyocysta species. Plate 2 from Brandt 1906
Date : 14/04/2011
Affichages : 2438
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Exactly how many?
Date : 28/06/2011
Affichages : 1622
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Copepod from the Arctic
Arctic Copepod (Chukchi Sea) - predator of planktonic protists
Date : 13/02/2013
Affichages : 1587
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Planktonic protists includes parasites.
Date : 13/08/2011
Affichages : 1777
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Tiny Mermaid Ring
From the Tropical Pacific Ocean, off Costa Rica. This tiny ring, hand crafted of living diatoms, is evidence in support of the existence of very small mermaids. Based on the ring size, the mermaid are about 2 - 3 cm long, explaining in part why they have
Date : 31/03/2013
Affichages : 1444
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Pediastrum simplex
Pediastrum simplex, a desmid algae - a nice looking phytoplankter.
Date : 08/04/2013
Affichages : 1683
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Faure-Fremiet's Tontonia
Fauré-Fremiet's drawing from his description of the most bizarre oligotrich Tontonnia appendiculiformis: a mixotroph with a pogo stick bouncing tail.
Date : 11/07/2013
Affichages : 1105
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Microplankton by Okamura
Plate from Okamura 1906 "An Annotated List of Plankton Microrganisms of the Japanese Coast".
Date : 16/09/2013
Affichages : 1400
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Plankton net tow (50 µm) material imaged using a 10x objective
December 16 2013 - Bay of Villefranche - Lots of pointy stuff
Date : 16/12/2013
Affichages : 1221
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Radiolarian
Whole cell and the skelelton of a radiolarian (microzooplankter) from the South Pacific. From a sample taken at station 98 of the Tara Oceans Expedition.
Date : 25/01/2014
Affichages : 1352
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Fish from Depths of the Ocean
Plate 2 from Murray & Hjort's 1912 classic Depths of the Ocean. Argyropelecus affinis, Gonostoma grande (now known as Sigmops bathyphilus) and Gonostoma elongatum.
Date : 02/03/2014
Affichages : 1105
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Deep Sea Fish from Depths of the Ocean
Plate 8 from Murray & Hjorts' 1912 classic "Depths of the Ocean". Hydrolagus mirabilis (Collet 1904), originally known as Chimera mirabilis and Nezumia aequalis, originally known as Macrurus aequalis (Günther 1878).
Date : 02/03/2014
Affichages : 1321
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Deep sea fish with teloscopic eyes.
"Pelagische Tiefseefische mit Teleskopaugen" from Carl Chun 1903. "Aus den Tiefen des Weltmeeres" Illistration by Fritz Winter.
Date : 16/02/2019
Affichages : 58
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Shallow water fish - Hanauma Bay, Hawaii
Convict Tang, Acanthurus triostegus, and whitspotted surgeonfish, Acanthurus guttatus. Feb 21 2014.
Date : 21/02/2014
Affichages : 1165
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Nano Strobilid ciliate
A very small strobilid ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in November 2013.
Date : 11/04/2014
Affichages : 1333
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Tontonia type oiigotrich
A very small (30 µm) tontonid oligotrich ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in April 2014.
Date : 23/04/2014
Affichages : 1490
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Another tontonid oligotrich ciliate
A medium-sized tontonid oligotrich ciliate from the Bay of Villefranche in October 2013. Z-stack of image made using a 40x objective, lugol's-fixed specimen.
Date : 29/04/2014
Affichages : 1268
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A Flagellate's Nightmare
A marine daphnia: Penilia avirostris from the Bay of Villefranche in September 2013
Date : 18/07/2014
Affichages : 1156
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Noctiluca by W. Vignal 1878
From Vignal's 1878 paper on Noctiluca, a bioluminesent dinoflagellate.
Date : 02/11/2014
Affichages : 1276
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A Ciliate's Nightmare: Copepods Working Together
Date : 11/11/2014
Affichages : 1494
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Northern Lights
From the Far Northwest Pacific
Date : 14/11/2014
Affichages : 1203
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Michaelsarsia elegans
Michaelsarsia, probably elegans, a coccolithophorid. Specimen from Tara Oceans station 66- the coccoliths on the cell surface are missing, formol-fixed sample. ID by Jeremy Young
Date : 06/06/2015
Affichages : 884
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Holy Grail
Very Small Holy Grail made from the tintinid Epiplocylis undella.
Date : 14/07/2015
Affichages : 906
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A tiny oligotrich ciliate
A tiny strombid oligotrich found in the South Pacific, Outpace CTD 159, Bottle #9
Date : 07/08/2015
Affichages : 991
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Pterosperma moebii
From the South Pacific Pterosperma Moebii, Outpace CTD 159, Bottle # 7
Date : 09/08/2015
Affichages : 1015
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Sea Monkey (prawn larvae)
Date : 08/01/2016
Affichages : 930
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march14net
Plankton net tow on March 14th 2016. Very large numbers of tintinnids!
Date : 14/03/2016
Affichages : 846
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IsselPlateGallery
Plate 3 from Issel (1934)- Microplankton from the Bay of Naples
Date : 09/08/2016
Affichages : 852
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Conover 1982 Fig1
Microzooplankton in the Marine Food Web from Conover 1982 (available http://aquaparadox.obs-vlfr.fr/html/ClassicMonographsGeneralPankton.php)
Date : 02/01/2017
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20xeutinapertptb15nov
A tintinnid and its diatom
Date : 15/11/2017
Affichages : 441
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Pterocanium trilobum Skeleton Haeckel 1862 Dictyopdium trilobum
Haeckel's drawing from his 1862 description of Dictyopdium trilobum, now known as Pterocanium trilobum, and a skeleton from Point C found on November 21 2017.
Date : 26/11/2017
Affichages : 418
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paleo planktonic trilobites
Date : 19/05/2018
Affichages : 174
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"Drop your haptoneme! You have the right to remain flagelllated...."
Haptophyte trapped by Dadayiella ganymedes
Date : 25/06/2018
Affichages : 164
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Nassularian Radiolarians of the Twilight Zone
Found at Point C from 250 m depth in June 2018.
Date : 07/07/2018
Affichages : 181
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Early Plankton Team
Date : 26/08/2018
Affichages : 146
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Seagrass Bed off ponton
Mediterranean Prairie
Date : 30/08/2018
Affichages : 159
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Ehrenberg 1862 Tafel 3
Something for everyone (even a diving beetle): Plate 3 from Ehrenberg 1862
Date : 26/10/2018
Affichages : 110
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Artists of The Drifting World
From Artists of the Drifting World of Plankton
Date : 06/12/2018
Affichages : 207
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Deep Sea Star Larvae
Sea Star larvae found in deep sea sample on Feb 12 2019.
Date : 13/02/2019
Affichages : 52
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Tafel 1 from Vanhöffen 1908: Aegina rosea, Aegina lactea, Aegina brunnea, Solmaris rhodoloma
Deep-Sea Medusa from Vanhöffen E. 1908. Die Narcomedusen. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ‘Valdivia’ 1898–1899,19:41–74.
Date : 22/02/2019
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Tafel 2 from Vanhöffen 1908: Cunoctuna grimaldi, cunoctuna obscura, Polyxenia cyanogramma , Solmaris flavescens
Deep-Sea Medusa from Vanhöffen E.1908. Die Narcomedusen. WissenschaftlicheErgebnisse der Deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer ‘Valdivia’ 1898–1899
Date : 22/02/2019
Affichages : 88
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Louis Joblot - Magnifying Glass Holder -
Dessin d'un porte loupe from Louis Joblot 1718 "Descriptions et usages de plusieurs nouveaux microscopes, tant simples que composez; avec de nouvelles observations faites sur une multitude innombrable d'insectes, & d'autres animaux de diverses es
Date : 05/05/2019
Affichages : 13
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From Joblot 1718
This plate contains all of the more remarkable seen in 9 kinds of infusions. (Louis Joblot 1718)
Date : 05/05/2019
Affichages : 16
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Le Pouple Colossal (Giant Octopus) from Denys-Monfort 1801
Plate 26 from Pierre Denys de Montfort, Histoire naturelle, générale et particulière des mollusques, animaux sans vertèbres et à sang blanc. Ouvrage faisant suite aux Ouvres de Leclerc de Buffon, et partie du Cours complet d'Histoire naturelle rédigé par
Date : 18/05/2019
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