A round-headed silver perch, Bairdiella chrysura : with notes on the earliest figured round-headed fish

Title Variants

Alternative: Round-headed Bairdiella chrysura
Alternative: Roundheaded silver perch, Bairdiella chrysura

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 613

By

Gudger, E. W. (Eugene Willis), 1866-1956
Nichols, John T. (John Treadwell), 1883-1958

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York City, The American Museum of Natural History, [1933]

Notes

Title from caption.

"May 8, 1933."

Specimen of Bairdiella chrysoura identified by John T. Nichols.

"The earliest known figure of such a deformity ... is found in Conrad Gesner's 'Liber IIII' ('De Piscium & Aquatilium Animantium Natura') of his encyclopedic 'Historia Animalium' (Tiguri, 1558)"--P. 4.

Subjects

1516-1565 , 59.7,58B:12.93 , Abnormalities , Bairdiella chrysoura , Fishes , Gessner, Konrad, , Head , Historia animalium , Sciaenidae

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.613, 1933

Language

English

Identifiers

OCLC: 31842190