Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11411

    Spider tortoise

    Date
    1910
    Creator
    Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard (1841 - 1904, French) , Naturalist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 322mm
    width (print): 244mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological studies of the Spider tortoise, Pyxis arachnoiodes, a reptile native to Madagascar.

    Plate 16 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.16.’; and below: ‘Arnoul pinxt. Imp. Becquet fr. Paris. Pyxis arachnoides.’

    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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