Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.11834

    Dissected Skate

    Date
    1802
    Creator
    Wilhelm Gottlieb Tilesius von Tilenau (1769 - 1857, German) , Engraver
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 246mm
    width (print): 202mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Anatomical dissection of a skate specimen (family Rajidae) showing the abdominal area opened.

    Plate 2 from the book Ueber die sogenannten Seemause oder hornartigen fischeyer…by W.G. Tilesius (Leipzig, 1802).

    Inscribed above: ‘Tab.II.’ and below: ‘Auctor ad nat pinxit et sculpsit.’

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