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Artist
- Name:
- Unknown
Illustration
- Subject:
- Animals
- Technique:
- Lithograph
- Format:
- Landscape (wider)
- Source:
- The Ernst Mayr Library of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, the Internet Archive
Book
- Title:
- Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere
- Author(s):
- Fitzinger, Leopold Joseph Franz Johann
- Publisher:
- Vienna: k.k. Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, 1867
- Open Library:
- View record
Description
View of a female Suriname toad (Pipa pipa) showing the distinctive reproductive habits of the species, with eggs embedded in the skin of the back and fully formed juveniles already leaving the honeycomb-looking pockets, which will be shed at the end of the cycle. The Suriname toad is an amphibian in the family Pipidae native to South America.
The caption reads in the original German: Die Pipa oder surinamische Stern-Unke (Asterodactylus dorsiger).
Keywords: 1860s, 19th century, amphibian, color, Pipidae, reference book, South America
