Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11148

    ‘Peristedion laticeps’

    Date
    1848-1852
    Creator
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 265mm
    width (page): 355mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Marine zoological study of the armoured searobin Satyrichthys laticeps (here styled Peristedion laticeps). With a detail of the head of the fish, viewed from above.

    Plate from the paper ‘Beschrijving eenen nieuwe sort van visschen, Peristedion laticeps’, by H Schlegel, published in the journal Bijdragen tot de dierkunde. Deel 1. (Amsterdam, M. Westerman & Zoon, 1848-1854).

    Inscribed below: ‘PERISTEDION LATICEPS’.

    Hermann Schlegel (1804-1884) was a German ornithologist and herpetologist.
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