Scientific Illustration

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Sterrer, W. (Ed.) (1986). Marine Fauna and Flora of Bermuda. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

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Contributing Artists: Simon Chew, Daniel Cole, Nigel Gerke, R. Gibson, Toni Hargreaves, P. J. Hayward, Phyllis Knight-Jones, Paul J. Llewellyn, P. J. A. Pugh, J. S. Ryland, and Nathalie Yonow.

Hayward, P. J. and Ryland, J. S. (Eds.) (1995). Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe. New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

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Contributing Artists: Simon Chew, Daniel Cole, Nigel Gerke, R. Gibson, Toni Hargreaves, P. J. Hayward, Phyllis Knight-Jones, Paul J. Llewellyn, P. J. A. Pugh, J. S. Ryland, and Nathalie Yonow.

Hayward, P. J. and Ryland, J. S. (Eds.) (1995). Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe. New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

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Contributing Artists: Simon Chew, Daniel Cole, Nigel Gerke, R. Gibson, Toni Hargreaves, P. J. Hayward, Phyllis Knight-Jones, Paul J. Llewellyn, P. J. A. Pugh, J. S. Ryland, and Nathalie Yonow.

Hayward, P. J. and Ryland, J. S. (Eds.) (1995). Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe. New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

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Contributing Artists: Simon Chew, Daniel Cole, Nigel Gerke, R. Gibson, Toni Hargreaves, P. J. Hayward, Phyllis Knight-Jones, Paul J. Llewellyn, P. J. A. Pugh, J. S. Ryland, and Nathalie Yonow.

Hayward, P. J. and Ryland, J. S. (Eds.) (1995). Handbook of the Marine Fauna of North-West Europe. New York: Oxford University Press Inc.

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Caption: ‘Pompeii’ worm Alvinella pompejana showing the small number of segments and the long dorsal papillae.

Artist: Violaine Martin

Gage, J.D. and Tyler, P.A. (1991). Deep Sea Biology: A natural history of organisms at the deep-sea floor. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Chaetopoda, plate 96, Kunstformen der Natur (1904)

by Ernst Haeckel

* This term was in use more in Haekel’s time, but is considered an outmoded term referring to the Polychaetes and Oligochaetes, within the Annelida. In this illustration, only Polychaetes are present.

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Terrestrial Flatworm, Bipalium sp., from East and SE Asia, feeding on an Earthworm

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kodakowl: Hallucigenia

Hallucigenia, (meaning strage and dream-like) was a small worm-ish creature that scurried about the ocean floor on longe stilt-like legs. Our little friend here has suffered much confusion in the paleontological community, it was first depicted upside-down, because it was thought that what are now seen as defensive spikes were it’s legs. It is unknown which end is the front, there are dark stains at bothe ends of fossils, either of which may be a head. Maybe we have a CatDog on our hands. Recent specimens of Hallucigenia were found to have small claws on the tentacles, which are what brought about the change of which end was up. It is unknown what it’s spines were made of, but they haven’t preserved well, so it is likely they were soft, and serverd little defensive purposes. Perhaps they were like the spines of the sea urchin… That’s enough speculation from me, though. It was likely a decomposer of the sea floor, like the friendly little slimebag, the hagfish, and fed on decaying animal corpses. It has been found in Burgess Shale and Cambrian Maotianshan.

A sea mouse, Aphrodita aculeata 

From: ‘Neurotteri. [Emitteri] Contenente La Descrizione De’Nuovi O Poco Esattamente Conosciuti; Con Figure Ricavate Da Originali Viventi E Dipinte Al Naturale’ Author: Costa, Oronzio-Gabriele Year of publication: 1860