Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11833

    Skate

    Date
    1802
    Creator
    Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769 - 1857, German) , Engraver
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 208mm
    width (print): 255mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Marine biological studies of a species of skate (family Rajidae) claimed by the author as a new species from the Portuguese sea. The creature is an unidentified cartilaginous fish and is shown from above (figure 1) with a scheme of its front profile (figure 2).

    Plate 1 from the book Ueber die sogenannten Seemause oder hornartigen fischeyer…by W.G. Tilesius (Leipzig, 1802).

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.I. Rajae nova species’. Inscribed below: ‘Auctor ad nat pinxit.

    Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769-1857) German naturalist, draughtsman and engraver.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > Germany
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