Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.16415

    Longhorn batfish

    Date
    1695-86
    Creator
    Henry Hunt (British) , Artist
    Object type
    Archive reference number
    Manuscript page number
    p88
    Material
    Dimensions
    height (Paper): 300mm
    width (Paper): 185mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    nature
       > animal
    Description

    Transcription
    signed at the bottom, HNT
    Transcribed by the Making Visible project
    Object history
    The description of 'Guacucia' in F. Willughby, Historia Piscium (London and Oxford, 1686), pp. 89-90, is taken from Georg Marcgraf and Willem Piso, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae (Leiden and Amsterdam, 1648), p. 143, where there is a different figure of this fish.
    Associated place
    <The World>
       > South America
          > Brazil
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