Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11406

    Madagascan crocodiles

    Date
    1910
    Creator
    Louis Léchaudel (French) , Lithographer
    After
    Jobin (French) , Artist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 322mm
    width (print): 474mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological studies of two crocodiles. Figure 1: side view of the Madagascar Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus madagascariensis. Figure 2: side view of the extinct Madagascan crocodile Voay robustus (here styled Crocodylus robustus).

    Plates 1-2 from the book Histoire physique, naturelle et politique de Madagascar…volume XVII Histoire naturelle des reptiles, by Léon Vaillant and Guillaume Grandidier (Paris, Imprimerie Nationale, 1910).

    The plate is inscribed top: ‘Madagascar. Reptiles. Pl.1-2.’; and below: ‘Jobin del. L. Léchaudel lith. 1. Crocodilus madagascariensis, Grand. – 2. Cr. Robustus, Grand. Et Vaill.’

    Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
    Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.

    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Madagascar
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