Sailfin lizard Simon Fokke
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Sailfin lizard
Zoological study of the sailfin lizard, here styled Lacerta amboinensi now Hydrosaurus amboinensis, in a natural landscape. The Amboina sailfin lizard is a reptile native to Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and the Philippines. Plate from the monograph Brief van Johannes Albertus Schlosser...Behelzende eene naauwkeurige Beschrijving der Amboinsche haagdis (Amsterdam 1768). Inscribed: "G.Dadelbeek delineavit. S. Fokke sculpsit." Jan Albert Schlosser (1733-1769) Dutch physician, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1756.
Original: copperplate engraving. 1768
- Image reference: RS-10119
- The Royal Society
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