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Brachyura

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Decapoda (Crustacea)

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Images about Brachyura

8 images from works
  • Crabs representing a nickname for pubic lice or 'VD' with chinese lettering; a safe-sex advertisement by AIDS Concern, Hong Kong. Colour lithograph, ca. 1997.
  • Thirteen types of crab and two other marine crustaceans. Engraving by I. Taylor.
  • A violet crab: ventral and dorsal aspect. Coloured etching, ca. 1792.
  • Seventeen crustaceans, including the Commmon crab, the Cleanser crab and the Rough crab. Engraving by J. Record.
  • The soldier crab, in its shell and out of its shell;; the hermit crabin its shell and out of its shelll; bottom, the land crab. Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 1800.
  • A red crab, representing the disease cancer. Colour lithograph by Kramer, ca. 1931.
  • Two fossils of a crab, showing top and underside. Watercolour.
  • Horseshoe crab: dorsal and ventral views. Watercolour by Zayhn al-Din, 1777/1783.

Works

15 works

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    An account of the deep-sea Brachyura collected by the Royal Indian Marine Survey ship Investigator / by A. Alcock.

    Alcock, A. (Alfred), 1859-1933. | Date: 1899
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    The soldier crab, in its shell and out of its shell;; the hermit crabin its shell and out of its shelll; bottom, the land crab. Coloured etching by J. Chapman, 1800.

    | Date: 12 July 1800 | Reference: 578674i
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    Two fossils of a crab, showing top and underside. Watercolour.

    | Reference: 22962i
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    Thirteen types of crab and two other marine crustaceans. Engraving by I. Taylor.

    | Reference: 42248i
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    The nomenclature of crabs collected during the cruises of HMS Porcupine in 1869 and 1870 : with notes on the Norman collection of invertebrata and its acquisition by the British Museum (Natural History) / A.L. Rice.

    Rice, A. L. | Date: [1990], ©1990

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