Comments on Linnaean types
Deraniyagala, P. E. P.
Some of Linné's reptiles and a mammal from Ceylon and elsewhere that are in Sweden. [AND] Some little-known characters of the two subspecies of Lepidochelys olivacea (Eschscholtz).
Published
1961
Item ID
67083
€45.00
Colombo, The National Museums of Ceylon, 1961. 4to (27.9 x 21.3 cm). 8 [1, 7] pp.; two plates, three (groups of) text figures. Disbound.
This is an important re-evaluation of (possible) Linnaean herpetological and mammalian type specimens. The illustrations all belong to the second paper. Published back-to-back in Spolia Zeylanica. Rare.