Snake pipefish and Pearlfish
Date
1811
Creator
Edward Mitchell (British) , Engraver
After
George Montagu (1753 - 1815, British) , Naturalist
Object type
Library reference
RCN32515
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 125mm
width (print): 211mm
width (print): 211mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Marine zoological studies of two fishes rare to British waters. Figure 1 the Snake pipefish Entelurus aequoreus (here referred to as Syngnathus aequoreus). Figure 2 the Pearlfish Carapus acus (here referred to as Ophidium imberbe). Side views, with a sectional detail.
Plate 4 accompanying the paper ‘An account of five rare species of British fish’, by George Montagu, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.1 1808-1810, pp.79-101 (Edinburgh, 1811). Inscribed above: ‘P.85 Plate IV’. Inscribed below: ‘Engrd. By E. Mitchell.’
Of figure 1, the accompanying text states that: ‘This fish was taken at Salcomb, in the year 1807, and selected from the common species, by a fisherman in the habit of collecting for me, and who remarked he had never before seen one of the kind.’
Of figure 2, the accompanying text states that: ‘This species of Ophidium may be considered as one of the most rare of the British Isles…all we know, therefore is that it was taken at Weymouth.’
George Montagu (1753-1815) naturalist and army officer, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He described several British molluscs and fish for the first time.
Plate 4 accompanying the paper ‘An account of five rare species of British fish’, by George Montagu, Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society, v.1 1808-1810, pp.79-101 (Edinburgh, 1811). Inscribed above: ‘P.85 Plate IV’. Inscribed below: ‘Engrd. By E. Mitchell.’
Of figure 1, the accompanying text states that: ‘This fish was taken at Salcomb, in the year 1807, and selected from the common species, by a fisherman in the habit of collecting for me, and who remarked he had never before seen one of the kind.’
Of figure 2, the accompanying text states that: ‘This species of Ophidium may be considered as one of the most rare of the British Isles…all we know, therefore is that it was taken at Weymouth.’
George Montagu (1753-1815) naturalist and army officer, was a Fellow of the Linnean Society. He described several British molluscs and fish for the first time.
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