Drawing Nature

Primary Documents

• Pubescent Porcelain Crab Illustration

From the Royal BC Museum

• The Art of Science

Curator of Vertebrates, Dr Gavin Hanke, writes about the work of another museum illustrator, Frank Beebe.

Where to Begin Your Own Research

• Royal BC Museum Invertebrates Collection

Much of the Royal BC Museum invertebrate collection (animals without backbones) has been digitized. Try searching for invertebrates.

• Invertebrates at the Royal BC Museum

Learn more about invertebrates (animals without backbones) at the Royal BC Museum.

Outside Links

These links will take you away from the Learning Portal. Come back soon!

• Electronic Atlas of the Wildlife of British Columbia.

To learn more about crabs and their relatives, visit this E-Fauna BC search page. Go to “invertebrates” and then “Crustaceans” to see a list with images.

Credit: Klinkenberg, Brian. (Editor) 2014. E-Fauna BC: Electronic Atlas of the Fauna of British Columbia [www.efauna.bc.ca]. Lab for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. [August 13, 2014]