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Image number: RS.10072
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Studies of two fishes from Australia
Date
1843
After
James Barker Emery (1789 - 1889, British) , Naval officer
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/+31/7
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Dimensions
height (print): 245mm
width (print): 316mm
width (print): 316mm
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Description
Marine biological studies of two Australian fishes. Figure 1 ‘Lethrinus ? cyanoxanthus, Blue- and yellow faced Lethrinus’ [modern taxonomy Lethrinus nebulosus Spangled Emperor]. According to the accompanying text “The specimen represented in the plate was taken at Houtmans Abrolhos”, a chain of islands off Western Australia. Figure 2 ‘Lethrinus cinnabarinus Blue-lined red Lethrinus’ [modern taxonomy Lethrinus erythracanthus, the Orange spotted emperor] “taken at the same place with the preceding species”.
Plate 4 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 4” and figures individually numbered.
Plate 4 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 4” and figures individually numbered.
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