File:FMIB 47681 Indian Deep-Sea Mollusca.jpeg

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Alfred William Alcock  (1859–1933)  wikidata:Q947470 s:en:Author:Alfred William Alcock
 
Alfred William Alcock
Alternative names
Alcock; A. Alcock; A. W. Alcock
Description -British physician
Date of birth/death 23 June 1859 Edit this at Wikidata 24 March 1933 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Mumbai Edit this at Wikidata Belvedere Edit this at Wikidata
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creator QS:P170,Q947470
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English: Indian Deep-Sea Mollusca

A specimen of Xenophora pallidula, from the Andaman Sea, 185 fathoms.... Among the dead shells used as a fortification are--

The dead shells utilised as building-material are not stuck on indiscriminately, but are arranged along the edge of each whorl

  • Subject: Turritellidae, Turridae, Shells, Xenophora, Spirotropis
  • Tag: Mollusks
Date 1902.00
institution QS:P195,Q219563
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English: Alcock, Alfred W. (1902) Naturalist in Indian Seas : or, Four Years with the Royal Indian Marine Survey Ship 'Investigator', New York City, NY: E. P. Dutton & Co.
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Public domain This is a photograph from the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank at the University of Washington. Materials in the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank are in the public domain. No copyright permissions are needed. Acknowledgement of the Freshwater and Marine Image Bank as a source for borrowed images is requested.

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