Angonoka tortoise
Date
1910
Creator
Louis Léchaudel (French) , Lithographer
After
Eugène Juillerat (1856, French) , Artist
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Dimensions
height (print): 244mm
width (print): 322mm
width (print): 322mm
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Description
Zoological studies of the juvenile angonoka tortoise Astrochelys yniphora (here styled Testudo hyniphora) shown from above and below. The reptile is native to Madagascar and was first described by Léon Vaillant in 1885.
Plate 12 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.12.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Testudo hyniphora, juv., Vaillant.’ An indication of scale ‘1/3’ is given behind the tortoise.
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
Plate 12 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.12.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Testudo hyniphora, juv., Vaillant.’ An indication of scale ‘1/3’ is given behind the tortoise.
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
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