Pungent_chaetodon_John_White_(detail).jpg
Description Pungent chaetodon John White (detail).jpg |
This is a detail of File:Pungent chaetodon John White.jpg , plate 39 of John White 's 1790 Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales .
Figure 1, captioned "THE LONG-SPINED CHAETODON", CHÆTODON ARMATUS shows a species Enoplosus armatus . The accompanying text states that
Whitish Chaetodon, with seven black stripes on the body. Six spines on the dorsal fin, the third very long. This appears to be a new and very elegant species of the genus Chaetodon. The total length of the specimen was not more than four inches. The colour a silvery white, darker, and of a bluish tinge on the back; the transverse fasciae, or bands, of a deep black; the fins and tail of a pale brown. The third ray or spine of the first dorsal fin is much longer than the rest. |
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Source | The original image appears in Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales . This digital image is taken from the Project Gutenberg transcription of that text, and is available here . | ||||||
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No attribution for the painting is given in White's Journal of a Voyage to New South Wales , and Smith's A Specimen of the Botany of New Holland attributes it to White. Salkin, has suggested that
and this is supported by a set of paintings of the Journal plates by Watling that are held by the Natural History Museum, London. However, Helen Hewson states in Australia: 300 years of botanical illustration that
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