Coral species: black coral, Corallium nigrum arboreum 1, Corallium album stellatum 2, Corallium album oculatum 3, Acropora abrotanoides, Madrepora abrotonoides 4, and bamboo coral, Isis hippuris 5. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Knorr after an illustration by Johann Friedrich Dietsch from Georg Wolfgang Knorr's Deliciae Naturae Selectae of Kabinet van Zeldzaamheden der Natuur, Blusse and Son, Nuremberg, 1771. Specimens from a Wunderkammer or Cabinet of Curiosities owned by Dr. Christoph Jacob Trew in Nuremberg.

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