http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/main.php http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/K_fasciculataPL1810.jpg.html 100480 The ctenophore described by Péron and Lesueur in 1810. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/Lesseur1813plate.jpg.html 100483 Claude Lesueur described the large ctenophore Cestum veneris (F.1) also known as the Venus belt, and the small pteropod Cavolina inflexa (F.3) in 1813. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/PLate38.jpg.html 105221 Loligopsis veranii now known as Chiroteuthis veranii (Férussac, 1834) http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/Plate19.jpg.html 105224 Histioteuthis bonelliana now known as Histioteuthis bonnellii (Férussac, 1834) http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/Haeckel_Gamochonia.jpg.html 105227 Heackel's Octopus plate from "Kunstformen der Natur" (known in English as Art Forms in Nature). Two of the 5 (#'s 1 & 2) are Vernay's discoversies formally described by Férussac.1) Chiroteuthis Veranyi (Férussac 1835) = Chiroteuthis verany http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/AlgamaRubraVogt84.jpg.html 100486 Halistemma rubrum was first found in the Bay of Villefranche by Carl Vogt. The description was published in 1852. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/ThalasicollaMorumMuller1858plate7.jpg.html 104675 The radiolarian Thaliscolla morum described by Johannes Müller. Image from Müller 1858. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/Haeckel1862DieRadiolarienPlateLiveCellInset56.jpg.html 105230 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/MitrocomaAnnae.jpg.html 104669 Mitrocoma annae found by Ernst Haeckel in Villefranche in April 1864, named after after his first wife, Anna, who had recently died. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/editedHaeckel1865Tafel.jpg.html 105218 Ernst Haeckel's stay in Villefranche in March-April 1864 allowed him make observations on living cells. This plate is from "Ueber den Sarcodekörper der Rhizopoden" (1865). New species shown Actinelius purpureus (fig. 4) and Cyrtidosphaera echino http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/Haeckel1864Plate11NiceMedusa.jpg.html 105690 Ernst Haeckel's first published illustration of a medusa was a species he called Carmarina hastata he found in Nice. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/DiscvrVlfrPlate.jpg.html 81952 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/CistellulaFolNOW.jpg.html 81956 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/RhabdoFolNOW.jpg.html 81959 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/PetaloAmpFolNOW.jpg.html 81962 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/FolStenoNivalis.jpg.html 81965 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/FolCodonAsperNation.jpg.html 81968 http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/Peragallo1888Plate2.jpg.html 99136 From the first article on phytoplankton of the Bay of Villefranche. Hippolyte Peragallo published in 1888 "Diatomées de la baie de Villefranche (Alpes-Maritimes)". Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 22: 1-99. Available @ http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/LesueurFishForRisso.jpg.html 105884 "Ce Calliouyme, dont la longueur totale n'excède pas six centimètres,a été trouvé par M. Lesueur sur les rivages de Nice. Il paraît que M. Risso, auquel il a été dédié, ne l'a pas connu." http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/1892BedotAgalmaClausiRotated.jpg.html 108647 Maurice Bedot described Agalma clausi in 1892. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/1916TregoPerzellaPneumodermopsidis.jpg.html 108650 The ciliate Perezlla pneumodermopsidis, a parasite of the pteropod Pneumodermopsis ciliatum, described by G. Trégouboff in 1916. Longest dimension of trophont cell (a) about 50 µm. http://gallery.obs-vlfr.fr/gallery2/v/Aquaparadox/album516/350umDiamDiatom.jpg.html 108656 Rhizosolenia stolterfothii Pergallo 1888