Sea Snail Gallery

Marine fauna, chromolithograph, published in 1899

Marine fauna: 1) Mediterranean jellyfish (Cotylorhiza tuberculata); 2) Sea raft (Velella velella); 3) Portuguese man o war (Physalia physalis); 4) Sea cucumber (Pelagothuria natatrix); 5) Salp (Salpa zonaria, single animal of the chain); 6) Carinaria pelagic sea snail (Carinaria mediterranea); 7) Comb jelly (Beroe cucumis); 8) Greater argonaut (Argonauta argo); 9) Eunereis longissima (or Alciopa cantrainii, Annelida); 10) Helmet jellyfish (Periphylla periphylla); 11) Box jellyfish (Cubozoa); 12) Pyrosome; 13) Stephanophyes superba; 14) Salp (Salpa maxima-africana); 15) Dipleurosoma hemisphaericum; 16) Phronima sedentaria; 17) Sea butterfly (Cavolinia tridentata); 18) Gregarious jellyfish (Clytia gregaria); 19) Northern comb jelly (Bolinopsis infundibulum). Chromolithograph after a drawing by Comingio Merculiano (Italian painter, 1845 - 1915), published in 1899

Fossil smooth clam Cytheria chione, sea snail

Fossil smooth clam Cytheria chione, sea snail Turitella scalata and shark teeth. . Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidt's Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann. Dr. Schmidt's Book of Petrification introduced fossils and palaeontology to both the specialist and general reader

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Illustration of Common Pelicans Foot (Aporrhais pespelecani), snail with long snout and tentacles emerging from shell on beach

Illustration of Common Pelican's Foot (Aporrhais pespelecani), snail with long snout and tentacles emerging from shell on beach

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