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Four Fish of Japan
| A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings made by draftsman Hamilton Patterson of four fish collected on Perry's expedition to Japan. They are numbered from the bottom. No. 1 is identified as Clinus polyactocephalus, correctly, Blennius polyactocephalus and was collected near Hakodate. No. 2, the orange bellied butterfish, was also collected near Hakodate and is identified as Gunnellus dolichogaster, accepted names Gunnellus crassispina or Pholis crassispina. No. 3 is identified as Belone gigantea, synonym Tylosurus crocodilus and was collected in the waters of the Lew Chew Islands (now Okinawa). No. 4, Scomberesox saira, synonym, Cololabris saira, was collected near Shimoda. |
| Image ID: | 124224 |
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| Creation Date: | before 1856 |
| Creator Name: | Patterson, H. |
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| Collection Name: | Rare Books |
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| Original Format Type: | prints, fine-art |
| Original Format Number: | Serials 770 |
| Original Dimensions: | 11.5 x 8.5 inches |
| From Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, Performed in the Years 1852, 1853, and 1854, Under the Command of Commodore M. C. Perry, United States Navy, Volume II. opp. page 257 |
| Fishes |
| Drawing |
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| Location: | Wisconsin Historical Society Archives, 4th Floor, Madison, Wisconsin |
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