Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11160

    ‘Stenops potto'

    Date
    1848-1852
    Creator
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 355mm
    width (page): 510mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological study of a Potto, Perodicticus potto (here styled Stenops potto). The primate is shown grasping tree branches within a jungle habitat.

    Plate from the paper 'Verklaring eener afbeelding van Stenops potto', by H S Pel published in the journal Bijdragen tot de dierkunde. Deedl 1. (Amsterdam, M Westerman & Zoon, 1848-1854).

    Inscribed below: 'DE APOSO STENOPS POTTO'.

    Hendrik Severinus Pel (fl.mid-19th century) was a Dutch colonial official in what was the Gold Coast, now Ghana, West Africa.

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