Etchings, Engravings and Lithographs
ACTINOZOA #2
£39.50
Original 1883 9 5/8 inch x 6 1/4 inch Lithograph titled ACTINOZOA (ALEYONARIA):
- 1. Cornularia (rugosa) rosea
- 2-4. Tulapora musica
- 5. Renilla Americana
- 6. Isis mobilis
- 7. Gorgonia patula
Actinozoa is an obsolescent term in systematic zoology, first used by Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville in his Manuel d’Actinologie (1834) to designate animals the organs of which were disposed radially about a centre. De Blainville included in his group many unicellular forms, sea anemones, corals, jellyfish, hydroid polyps, echinoderms, polyzoa, and rotifera
From “The National Encyclopaedia : A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge”; by writers of Eminence in Literature, Published by William Mackenzie, London – Volume 1 (1883)
The lithograph is in very good condition.
Availability: 1 in stock
