Credit: ©The Royal Society
    Image number: RS.19242

    Killifish

    Date
    1811
    Creator
    Jean Louis Coutant (1776 - 1831, French) , Engraver
    Creator - Organisation
    After
    Henri Joseph Redouté (1766, French) , Draughtsman
    Object type
    Library reference
    45380
    Material
    Technique
    Dimensions
    height (page): 346mm
    width (page): 255mm
    Subject
    Biology
       > Natural history
    Biology
       > Zoology
          > Ichthyology
    Content object
    nature
       > animal
          > fish
    Description
    Ichthyological study of three killifish.

    Fig. 1, 4 & 5. Mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus Linnaeus, here styled Fundulus fasciatus Bloch & Schneider, with studies of the teeth and gills.
    Fig. 2. Killifish, Kryptolebias brasiliensis Valenciennes, here styled Fundulus brasiliensis Valenciennes.
    Fig. 3, 6 & 7 Striped killifish, Fundulus majalis Walbaum, here styled Cyprinodon flavulus Valencienne, with studies of the teeth and gills.

    Inscribed ‘PL. LII. H. J. Redouté delt. Coutant sculpt. De l’Imprimerie de Langlois’ with an explanation to the plates on page 216 including the contemporary taxonomy ‘PL.LII, fig. 1. 4. 5. Fundulus fasciatus, ses dents et ses branchies (p.162). Fig. 2. Fundulus brasiliensis (p.163). Fig. 3. 7. Cyprinodon flavulus, ses dents et ses branchies (p.164).’

    Plate LII to Recherches sur Les Poissons Fluviatiles de L’Amérique Équinoxiale; par MM. De Humboldt et Valenciennes. Recueil d’Observations de zoologie et d’Anatomie compare, faites… Par al. de Humboldt et A. Bonpland, volume 2 (Paris, 1811-1833).

    Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) German naturalist and traveller, elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1815.

    Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865) French zoologist.

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