# octocoralfriday

this week will look at smaller groups...like Calycozoa. Lucernaria campanulata [127] part of a 3 member class...started with Blainville again!

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2020-06-23

is ending the Blainville week with a far too colourful model...The early Physophora myzonema made by Leopold with a more jewellery like approach but still! (pic Peter Taylor). See you Monday!

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2020-06-20

...is slower as restrictions ease. So this week Snails and Slugs. Less known and rarely pictured those land invertebrates were also produced by the Blaschkas such as the Leopard slug, Limax maximus (534)

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2020-06-09

is [Hi! ] Another Savigny inspired model...Tubipora hemprichi [16] made out of small glass tubes connected by a membrane and sprinkle with tiny green flowers

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2020-05-30

Milne-Edwards book: "Histoire naturelle des coralliaires, ou polypes proprement dits" [] was the main reference for Anthelia Glauca (004) and many others. pics from of a wrongly labelled model! And the Sea of Glass..

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2020-05-28

One of the first book used by the Blaschka for star fish, brittle star and sea cucumber was published by Jan Adrianus Herklots (1819 -1872) a Dutch biologist. This includes Synapta fasciata [283]. 2 models and UCD but 2 ways of mounting tentacles..

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2020-05-15

follow the trail of the sea cucumber led by Lorenz Oken illustrations copied by the Blaschka and turn into glass such as Thyone peruana [292] and Stichopodes monocaria [281]. Models Chromo Drawing and tomorrow Synapta!!!

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2020-05-12

is entering cucumber territory..sea cucumber or holoturian. Firstly inspired by Lorenz Oken chromos such this Holothuria tubulosa [274] which later was sold also as a dissection [275]...

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2020-05-11

is on the naked snail trail. Eolis or Aeolis then Aeolidia papillosa [369] was described by Alder &Hancock in their "A monograph of the British nudibranchiate Mollusca" [] published by the but also copied by Haeckel.

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2020-05-07

Nudibranch alley! The most influential scientists were Albany Hancock and Joshua Alder they published in Transactions of the Zoological Society of London Vol.5 1866 a wonderful illustrated nudibranch article. The Blaschka kept pages in their...

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2020-05-05

Jean-Baptiste Verany published in 1851: 1851 Céphalopodes de la Méditerranée. Mollusques Méditerranéens... with gorgeous chromos and the Blaschka copied nearly the entire book in glass starting with Octopus vulgaris (577) not all in a perfect state...

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2020-04-26

will start the Haeckel week. A Blaschka neigbhour based in Leipzig published Das Protistenreich (1878) and they copied a few including Heliosphaera actinota (645). Each hexagon is made of individual segment. Model from Pictures Guido Mocaficco.

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2020-04-20

As we are following the Joseph Leydi trail here is a three part model: Amoeba proteus [631] showing three shapes this protist can take... drawing chromos and models

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2020-04-10

is illustrating the legacy of J.Leydi and L. Blaschka with Diffuglia pyriformis [632, pear shaped protozoan] notice the broken glass pieces glued to the body. Model from , chromolithographs and drawing from . Enjoy!

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2020-04-10