Bericht wegens een zondeling zee-insect, gevonden aan eenige zeewieren, gevischt op het strand van het eiland Walcheren.


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Figure(s) Bomme 1769Bennet & van Olivier 1826 van Benthem Jutting 1969New current name (=) or correction made here (#)DutchEnglish
1, 2, 3 Het gekuifde of gekroonde zeeslakje Doris coronata Indulia coronata (with their egg cases) = Doto coronata Gmelin 1 roodgevlekte kroonslak  


1 Lemche (1976) : Gmelin in 1791 used solely the description of Bomme of the red pigmented Doto to name this species Doto coronata. But whereas Gmelins record is short and of little value for identification, Bomme gave quite a number of relevant particulars, as well as drawings and notes. .. The hydroid is neither Dynamena pumila nor Obelia geniculata but is more like an Eudendrium that does not enter the brackish waters of a river like the Schelde, in the delta of which Walcheren is situated. I assume that the colony in question has drifted to land from some place off Walcheren. (Comment: Either Eudendrium arbuscula (Faasse), which is not uncommon in the area, or a small branch with polyps on it (could be E. arbuscula or E. album) (van Moorsel / Faase))

This paper also described a freshwater species. Cadée (2002) discussed this part of the text: he was the first to observe the cilia on bryozoan tentacles transporting food particles hereby correcting Trembley (1744) who thought transport to be due to the movements of tentacles themselves. This observation gives Bomme a place in the history of bryozoology.



 




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