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Leucandra (sponge)
''Leucandra'' is a genus of calcareous sponge belonging to the family Grantiidae. Its earliest known fossils are from the Jurassic The Jurassic ( ) is a Geological period, geologic period and System (stratigraphy), stratigraphic system that spanned from the end of the Triassic Period million years ago (Mya) to the beginning of the Cretaceous Period, approximately Mya. The J .... Species * '' Leucandra abratsbo'' Hozawa, 1929 * '' Leucandra algoaensis'' (Bowerbank, 1864) * '' Leucandra amakusana'' Tanita, 1943 * '' Leucandra amorpha'' Poléjaeff, 1883 * '' Leucandra ananas'' (Montagu, 1814) * '' Leucandra anfracta'' (Urban, 1908) * '' Leucandra anguinea'' (Ridley, 1884) * '' Leucandra apicalis'' Urban, 1906 * '' Leucandra armata'' (Urban, 1908) * '' Leucandra aspera'' (Schmidt, 1862) * '' Leucandra astricta'' Tanita, 1942 * '' Leucandra australiensis'' (Carter, 1886) * '' Leucandra balearica'' Lackschewitz, 1886 * '' Leucandra barbata'' (Duchassaing & Michelotti, 1864) * '' L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Haeckel
Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel (; 16 February 1834 – 9 August 1919) was a German zoologist, naturalist, eugenicist, philosopher, physician, professor, marine biologist and artist. He discovered, described and named thousands of new species, mapped a genealogical tree relating all life forms and coined many terms in biology, including ''ecology'', '' phylum'', ''phylogeny'', and ''Protista.'' Haeckel promoted and popularised Charles Darwin's work in Germany and developed the influential but no longer widely held recapitulation theory ("ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny") claiming that an individual organism's biological development, or ontogeny, parallels and summarises its species' evolutionary development, or phylogeny. The published artwork of Haeckel includes over 100 detailed, multi-colour illustrations of animals and sea creatures, collected in his ''Kunstformen der Natur'' ("Art Forms of Nature"), a book which would go on to influence the Art Nouveau artistic mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
