Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12509

    Harbour seal stomach

    Date
    1823
    Creator
    Friedrich Eduard Müller (1812 - 1885, German) , Engraver
    After
    Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann (1793 - 1858, German) , Physician
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 222mm
    width (print): 280mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > seal
    Description
    Anatomical studies of the digestive systems of the Eastern Atlantic harbour seal, Phoca vitulina vitulina (here styled Phoca litttorea). Figure 1 stomach of Phoca littorea. Figure 2 pylorus and bile ducts. Figure 3 stomach and duodenum.

    Plate 8 from the book Reise im Norden Europa's vorzuglich in Island in den Jahren 1820 bis 1821 angestellt, by F.A.L Thienemann and G.B. Gunther, 2 vols., (Leipzig, 1824).

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.VIII.’ Inscribed below: ‘Auct. ad nat. del. Isl. F.E. Müller sc.’

    Friedrich August Ludwig Thienemann (1793-1858) German physician and ornithologist embarked on a tour of Norway and Iceland with Gustav Biedermann Günther (1801-1866) German surgeon, during the years 1819-1820.
    Associated place
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          > Germany
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