Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.12993

    Chameleons

    Date
    1852
    Creator
    Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819 - 1904, French) , Artist
    After
    Alberti (French) , Artist
    Object type
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 296mm
    width (print): 228mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Herpetology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological studies of two chameleons. Figure 1. the Veiled chameleon Chamaeleo calyptratus, a reptile native to the Arabian peninsula. Figure 2. the Two-banded chameleon Furcifer balteatus (here referred to as Chamaeleo balteatus), native to Madagascar. Side views, each clinging to a tree branch.

    Plate 21 accompanying the paper ‘Ordre des chéloniens et premières familles de l’ordre des sauriens (crocodiliens et caméléoniens), by Auguste Duméril, Archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.8 (Paris, 1852) pp.209-264.

    Inscribed above: ‘Archives du Muséum. T. VI Pl. XXI’. Inscribed below: ‘I. CAMELEON A CAPE. CHAMAELEO CALYPTRATUS, A. Dum. 2. CAMELEON A BAUDRIER. CHAMAELEO BALTEATUS. A. Dum. Alberti del. Bocourt Lith. Gide et J. Baudry éditeurs. Imp. Auguste Bry. Paris.’

    Auguste Henri André Duméril (1812-1870) was a French zoologist.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > Africa
          > Madagascar
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