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Museum ichthyologicum sistens piscium indigenorum et quorundam exoticorum, qui in museo Laurentii Theodori Gronovii adservantur: Descriptiones ordine systematico; accedunt nonnullorum exoticorum piscium icones aeri incisae.

Publication Details

Leiden: apud Theodorum Haak, 1754 CE.

Gronovius described over 200 species of fish. He is also credited with developing a technique for preservation of fish skins. Today, a number of his fish skins are preserved in the Natural History Museum, London.

Digital facsimile from Bayerische StaatsBibliothek at this link.

Thematic Classifications

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Entry Number#12979
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Author Bio LinkWikipedia ↗
External URLmuseum-ichthyologicum-sistens-piscium-indigenorum-et-quorundam-exoticorum-qui-in-museo-laurentii-theodori-gronovii-adservantur-descriptiones-ordine-systematico-accedunt-nonnullorum-exoticorum-piscium-icones-aeri-incisae

Geographic Context

Publication place: Leiden

Mentioned in annotation: London