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Image number: RS.10070
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Studies of three fishes from Australia
Date
1843
After
James Barker Emery (1789 - 1889, British) , Naval officer
Object type
Library reference
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Dimensions
height (print): 316mm
width (print): 245mm
width (print): 245mm
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Description
Marine biological studies of three Australian fishes. Figure 1 ‘Sillargus burrus Crimson-backed Sillago’ [modern taxonomy Sillago burrus Western trumpeter whiting] from the “north-west coast of Australia” according to the accompanying text. Figure 2 ‘’Eleotris trabeatus’ [modern taxonomy Valenciennea muralis Mural goby] “discovered by Lt.Emery at Depuch Island”. Figure 3 ‘Aulopus purpurissatus, Imperial aulopus’ [modern taxonomy Latropiscis purpurissatus, Sergeant Baker] discovered “on the west coast of New Holland [Australia].”
Plate 2 from the publication Icones piscium, or plates of rare fishes by John Richardson (London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843).
James Barker Emery was an officer and naturalist, serving aboard HMS Beagle during a survey of the coast of Australia in 1837-1843.
Inscribed “Plate 2” and figures individually numbered.
Plate 2 from the publication Icones piscium, or plates of rare fishes by John Richardson (London, Richard and John E. Taylor, 1843).
James Barker Emery was an officer and naturalist, serving aboard HMS Beagle during a survey of the coast of Australia in 1837-1843.
Inscribed “Plate 2” and figures individually numbered.
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