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| Keywords: Sea fables explained (14966852514).jpg ii6 <br> SEA FABLES EXPLAINED <br> most common species of these necked barnacles bears <br> the name of Lepas anatifera' ' the duck -bearing LepasT <br> It was so entitled by Linnaeus in recognition of its having <br> been connected with the fable which of course met with <br> no credit from him <br> Fig 39 represents the figure-head of a ship partly <br> covered with barnacles which was picked up about thirty <br> miles off Lowestoft on the 22nd of October 1857 It was <br> described in the Illustrated London News and the pro- <br> FIG 39 ” A SHir'S FIGURE-HEAD WITH BARNACLES ATTACHED TO IT <br> prietors of that paper have kindly given me a copy of <br> the block from which its portrait was printed <br> Others of the barnacles affix themselves to the bottoms <br> of ships or parasitically upon whales and sharks and <br> those of the latter kind often burrow deeply into the skin of <br> their host Fig 40 is a portrait of a Coromila diadema taken <br> from the nose of a whale stranded at Kintradwell in the <br> north of Scotland in 1866 and sent to the late Mr Frank <br> Buckland Growing on this Coronula are three of the <br> curious eared barnacles Conchoderma aurita the Lepas 10985722 41337 10456 Page 116 Text http //www biodiversitylibrary org/page/10985722 1883 10 5962/bhl title 10456 International Fisheries Exhibition; Lee Henry NameFound Barnacles NameConfirmed Barnacles NameBankID 5033555 NameFound Conchoderma aurita NameConfirmed Conchoderma aurita NameFound Coromila diadema NameConfirmed Coronula diadema Linnaeus 1767 EOLID 1025043 NameBankID 522163 NameFound Coronula NameConfirmed Coronula EOLID 102428 NameBankID 2702283 NameFound Lepas NameConfirmed Lepas EOLID 10953572 NameBankID 2702230 NameFound Lepas anatifera NameConfirmed Lepas anatifera EOLID 1020694 NameBankID 2702231 NameFound Linnaeus NameConfirmed Linnaeus NameBankID 4221582 Biodiversity Heritage Library Sea fables explained Mermaids Monsters Are Real Folklore Ocean Smithsonian Libraries bhl page 10985722 dc identifier http //biodiversitylibrary org/page/10985722 bhlMonstersRreal Halloween mermaid smithsonian libraries bhlmonstersrreal halloween Information field Flickr posted date ISOdate 2014-10-21 CC-BY-2 0 BioDivLibrary https //flickr com/photos/61021753 N02/14966852514 2015-08-25 16 53 26 cc-by-2 0 PD-old-70-1923 Sea fables explained Photos uploaded from Flickr by Fæ using a script | ||||
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