Hoplangia | |
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Hoplangia durotrix | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Anthozoa |
Order: | Scleractinia |
Family: | Caryophylliidae |
Genus: | Hoplangia Gosse, 1860 |
Hoplangia is a genus of cnidarians belonging to the family Caryophylliidae. [1]
The species of this genus are found in Central and Southern Europe. [1]
Species: [1]
Philip Henry Gosse FRS, known to his friends as Henry, was an English naturalist and populariser of natural science, virtually the inventor of the seawater aquarium, and a painstaking innovator in the study of marine biology. Gosse created and stocked the first public aquarium at the London Zoo in 1853, and coined the term "aquarium" when he published the first manual, The Aquarium: An Unveiling of the Wonders of the Deep Sea, in 1854. His work was the catalyst for an aquarium craze in early Victorian England.
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