Spider tortoise
Date
1910
Creator
Étienne Alexandre Arnould Locard (1841 - 1904, French) , Naturalist
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height (print): 322mm
width (print): 244mm
width (print): 244mm
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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.
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.
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