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Image number: RS.10100
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Common torpedo
Date
1831
After
Ignaz Franz Werner Maria von Olfers (1793 - 1871, German) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
Tracts/X171/4
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 250mm
width (print): 200mm
width (print): 200mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine biological studies of the Common torpedo (Torpedo torpedo) or electric ray, here styled Torpedo ocellata. Figures 1-3 showing the animal from above with its distinctive spots, or ocellae. Figure 4 a detail of an air-hole or spiracle.
Plate 1 from the monograph Die Gattung Torpedo in ihren naturhistorischen antiquarischen Beziehungen [The natural history and antiquarian relations of the genus Torpedo], by J.F.M. von Olfers (Berlin, 1831). Inscribed: “Taf.1. I.de Olf. ad viv.”
Plate 1 from the monograph Die Gattung Torpedo in ihren naturhistorischen antiquarischen Beziehungen [The natural history and antiquarian relations of the genus Torpedo], by J.F.M. von Olfers (Berlin, 1831). Inscribed: “Taf.1. I.de Olf. ad viv.”
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