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Image number: RS.10101
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Four specimens of 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 varieties of the torpedo, or electric ray. Figure 1 Torpedo capensis [modern taxonomy Narke capensis, the Cape numbfish]. Figure 2 Torpedo dipterygia [modern taxonomy Narke dipterygia, the Numbray]. Figure 3 Torpedo timlei [modern taxonomy Narcine timlei, the Blackspotted numbfish]. Figure 4 Torpedo brasiliensis [modern taxonomy Narcine brasiliensis the Brazilian electric ray].
Plate 2 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.2. I.de Olf.”
Plate 2 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.2. I.de Olf.”
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