The fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive archipelagoes V1P2 Plate VI

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Description: English: Plate VI. All the figures represent the life-size of the animals each with its proboscis in a state of moderate expansion. The figures were drawn by Mr. C. Forster Cooper and represent the natural colour of the living animals Fig. 1. Thalassema erythrogrammon (=Ochetostoma erythrogrammon) Fig. 2. Thalassema diaphanes Fig. 3. Thalassema moebii (=Anelassorhynchus moebii) (3a. represents the proboscis of this species when contracted; 3b. represents the tip of the same when expanded) Fig. 4. Thalassema semoni (=Anelassorhynchus semoni). Date: 1903. Source: Gardiner, J. S., ed. The fauna and geography of the Maldive and Laccadive archipelagoes - being the account of the work carried on and of the collections made by an expedition during the years 1899 and 1900. Volume 1, Part II (1903). Author: Clive Forster-Cooper (1880-1947).