Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.13087

    Barred tiger salamander

    Date
    1866
    Creator
    J Huet (French) , Lithographer
    Object type
    Library reference
    RCN8171
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (print): 294mm
    width (print): 225mm
    Subject
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
    Description
    Zoological studies of the Barred tiger salamander, Ambystoma mavortium (here styled Siredon lichenoides, Baird?). Shown in stages of metamorphosis, with head details. The reptile is native to North America.

    Plate 10 accompanying the paper ‘Observations sur la reproduction dans la menagerie des reptiles du Muséum d’histoire naturelle des axolotls…’, by Auguste Duméril, Nouvelles archives du Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle…’ v.2 (Paris, 1866) pp.265-292.

    Inscribed above: ‘Nouvelles archives du Muséum. Tome II. Pl.10.’ Inscribed below: ‘AXOLOTL (Siredon lichenoides, Naird?)…Huet pinxt. et lith. Imp. Becquet, Paris.’

    Auguste Henri André Duméril (1812-1870) French zoologist.
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