Natuurkundige verlustigingen
Natuurkundige verlustigingen, behelzende microscopise waarneemingen van in- en uitlandse water- en land-dieren. Door Martinus Slabber ... - Te Haarlem : by J. Bosch, 1769-1778.
Published between 1769 and 1778 in 18 instalments.

Also published in German in a tranlation by Philip Lodewijk Statius Müller.
Title: Physikalische Belustigungen oder Mikroskopische Wahrnehmungen (von drey und vierzig)* in- und auslândischen Wasser- und Landthierchen durch Martinus Slabber. Wolfgang Winterschmidt, Nürnberg. 1775 and 1781
* part between brackets is only in the 1781 edition.

The complete text of Natuurlijke verlustigingen can be read, searched through and downloaded (Google books).
THe 1775 edition in German may be found here. The 1781 version is said to be enlarged.



Identification of species
Illustrations and identification of the species in Natuurkundige verlustigingen

One source of identification is an article by R.T. Maitland which came out a hunderd year after the books of Baster and Slabber were published (1876). About another hundred years later Maitlands list was updated by the malacologist Tera van Benthem Jutting (1970) with the help of various specialists.

On this site the names given by Slabber, Maitland and van Benthem Jutting are presented under the illustations. If appropriate a more recent name then van Benthem Jutting's is mentioned

Literature was studied for recent identifications. Where no recent data were found Godfried van Moorsel and I checked ourselves and asked specialists to help identify Slabbers species. Specialists who helped identifying species are named at the appropriate places.
Current names for marine species were checked at WoRMS.

 


















Literature on species


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