'Argonauta argo' [Greater argonaut] mb-height 3813 Found in the Royal Collection

Found in the Royal Collection

and others with a kind of stone truncheon'

Singer Gerry Marsden

by Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg

The plate is inscribed below: "Plate 1

'Argonauta argo' [Greater argonaut] mb-height 3813 Found in the Royal CollectionMarine zoological study of the Greater Argonaut (Argonauta argo). The cephalopod is presented as if swimming. Plate 1 bis in the section 'G. Argonaut' from the book Histoire naturelle generale et particuliere des cephalopodes acetabuliferes vivants et fossiles.., by Andr tienne d'Audebert de Frussac (1786 1836) and Alcide Charles Victor Marie Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802 1857) (Paris, 1848). Various inscriptions, including below: 'Morelli et Siesto del.