African mud turtles
Date
1910
Creator
Louis Léchaudel (French) , Lithographer
After
Eugène Juillerat (1856, French) , Painter
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height (print): 322mm
width (print): 474mm
width (print): 474mm
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Description
Zoological studies of the West African mud turtle Pelusios castaneus (here styled Sternothoerus castaneus) and the East African black mud turtle Pelusios subniger (here styled Sternothoerus subniger, Lacépède).
Plates 18-19 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.18-19.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Sternothoerus castaneus, Schweigger. Sternothoerus subniger, Lacépède.
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
Plates 18-19 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.18-19.’; and below: ‘Juillerat del. et pinx. L. Léchaudel lith. Sternothoerus castaneus, Schweigger. Sternothoerus subniger, Lacépède.
Léon Louis Vaillant (1834-1914) was a French zoologist.
Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957) was a French geographer and zoologist.
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