Mantis shrimp, Squilla mantis 1, star flower, Orbea variegata (Stapelia variegata) 2, and beetle, Staphylinus olens 3. Squille, Stapelie, Staphylin. Handcoloured steel engraving by du Casse from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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