Art History Animalia

Today is also #WorldOysterDay 🦪 - on a #MolluscMonday !

“Denticulated Oyster” (Striostrea denticulata)

illustration by R. P. Nodder in George Shaw’s The naturalist's miscellany Vol. 16, London, 1804-5

Via BHL

For #SeaSlugDay:

Nudibranchia, Plate 43 in Kunstformen der Natur, #SciArt by Ernst Haeckel (German, 1834-1919).

🆔:

1 Hermaea bifida (Lovén) = Hermaea bifida (Montagu, 1815)

2 Aeolis coronata (Forbes) = Facelina auriculata coronata (Forbes & Goodsir, 1839)

3 Dendronotus arborescens (Alder) = Dendronotus frondosus (Ascanius, 1774)

4 Idalia elegans (Leuckart) = Okenia elegans (Leuckart, 1828)

5 Doto coronata (Lovén) = Doto coronata (Gmelin, 1791)

6 Tritonia Hombergii (Cuvier) = Tritonia hombergii Cuvier, 1803

7 Ancula cristata (Lovén) = Ancula gibbosa (Risso, 1818)