Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12230

    Two clownfishes

    Date
    ca. 1830
    Creator
    Vittore Pedretti (1799, Swiss) , Engraver
    After
    D Costello, Artist
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN 34834
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 235mm
    width (print): 310mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Marine zoological studies of the Saddleback clownfish Amphiprion polymnus (above, here styled Amphiprion laticalvius) together with the Orange clownfish Amphiprion percula (below, here styled Amphirion tunicatus). Side views with line sections of each fish.

    Plate 132 from the book Histoire naturelles des poisons…tome 1-21…by Georges Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes (Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1828-1849).

    Inscribed below ‘1. AMPHIPRION à larges bandes. AMPHIPRION laticlavius. n. 2. AMPHIPRION à tunique noire. AMPHIPRION tunicatus. n.’ and attributed ‘D. Costello. Impe. de Langlois. Pedretti sculp.’

    Georges Cuvier (1773-1838), Baron Cuvier, French zoologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1806.

    Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865), French zoologist.
    Associated place
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       > Europe
          > France
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