Tag: squid

Pepper cephalopods, 1889

Pfeffer Cephalopoden. Diestelmann gez. Ergebnisse der in dem Atlantischen Ocean von Mitte Juli bis Anfang November 1889 ausgeführten Plankton-Expedition der Humboldt-Stiftung. Verlag von Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, Leipzig (1892-1913).| Pepper cephalopods. Signed Diestelmann. Results of the Humboldt Foundation’s plankton expedition in the Atlantic Ocean from mid-July to early November 1889. Published by Kiel, Lipsius & Tischer, Leipzig (1892-1913)| src BHL ~ Biodiversity Heritage Library

‘Poulpe colossal’, 1802

Facsimile of De Monfort’s ‘Poulpe colossal’. Colossal Octopus attacking a sailing vessel off the coast of Angola. Illustration by French naturalist Pierre Denys de Montfort (1766–1820) first published in Histoire Naturelle Générale et Particulière des Mollusques in 1802 as described by Norwegian sailors and American whalers.