Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.17544

    Nine-banded armadillo

    Date
    1879
    Creator
    Joseph Smit (1836 - 1929, Dutch) , Illustrator
    Creator - Organisation
    M & N Hanhart, Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    41158
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 241mm
    width (page): 310mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological study of a nine-banded armadillo, Dasypus novemcinctu [listed here as Tatusia novem cincta], found in North, Central and Southern America. The armadillo is presented in profile on a rocky, reedy surface, with its long tale curled behind it.

    Table 20 from Biologia centrali-Americana; or, Contributions to the knowledge of the fauna and flora of Mexico and central America, the Mammalia volume, authored by Edward Aliston and co-edited by Frederick Du Cane Godman and Osbert Salvin.

    Inscribed above: ‘Biol Centr Am Mammalia Tab 20’, and below: ‘J. Smit lith TATUSIA NOVEM CINCTA Hanhart imp’.

    Frederick Du Cane Godman (1834-1919) British entomologist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1882.

    Osbert Salvin (1835-1898) British naturalist and ornithologist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1873.
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