Birgus latro, (L., 1767)
Coconut crab
Done in Ink, Micron
(Fifth pereiopod pair omitted, often not visible in living individuals)
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A small illustration some of you might have seen on my FACEBOOK PAGE: I’m a sucker for argonauts, so here’s a Paper nautilus shell.
Fun fact, the Argonauta are the only living members of the Argonautidae, a group of cephalopods evolved to secrete an external shell which acts like the shell of a Nautilus.
Eurypleura bicornis
(Lepeletier & Serville, 1828)
Done in ink (Micron), edited in Photoshop
Reference: Mounted specimen
Happy New Year guys! Let’s celebrate with a home-deco -esque illustration I made yesterday.
Netted dog whelk, Striped venus and eggshell of Small-spotted catshark
Nassarius reticulatus L., 1758; Chamelea striatula (Da Costa, 1778); Scyliorhinus canicula (L., 1758).
An illustration I made last week honouring two species I’ve seen and drawn in the museum. Note the bizarre apertures of these two Ptychotrema species!
-Werner
What started as a quick sketch for @labness became a very nice, elaborate illustration. She helped me checking my German grammar and spelling, so I asked her if I could repay her some way.
She asked me if I could draw something Halloween-y, and what’s better than a bat skull? (I saw you liked tattoo-designs, so I used that a bit). For reference, I used a 3D-model of the skull of Tadarida brasiliensis - the Mexican or Brazilian free-tailed bat.
Hope you like it!
-Werner
Gift for my supervisor (I will post about my internship later, still have some awesome news to tell you all), a slipper lobster called Parribacus holthuisi.
My supervisor’s predecessor was the legendary carcinologist Lipke B. Holthuis, and since this man brought so many slipper lobsters to Leiden, and did so many research on them, a lot of crustaceans are named after him. For example this slipper lobster!
Hope you guys like it,
-Werner
An Eastern dwarf tree frog (Litoria fallax) for a friend of mine. If biology doesn’t support jobs, I can always become tattoo-artist I guess?
Really proud on this one, hope you enjoy it as much as I do.
-Werner
Have a small illustration I made last week, I believe this is a Strombidae member, Euprotomus bulla (Röding 1798). Not 100% happy with the top part, but for an hour illustration, it’s not that bad, right?
