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Six Fish of Japan
| A hand-colored lithograph prepared from drawings by Perry expedition draftsman Hamilton Patterson of specimens collected in the waters of Japan. Included are, No. 1, top left, Etroplus fumosus, current accepted name Acanthurus thompsoni (Thompson's surgeon fish); No. 2, top right, Heniochus macrolepidotus, accepted name Heniochus acuminatus; No. 3, middle left, Glyphisodon smaragdinus, accepted name Amblyglyphidodon curacao; No. 4, middle right, Amphiprion frenatus (red clownfish); No. 5, bottom left, Apistus rubripinnis, accepted name Paracentropogon rubripinnis; and No. 6, bottom right, Monocentris japonicus, current name Monocentris japonica (pinecone fish). Numbers one through three were collected in the Lew Chew Islands (Okinawa); the remaining were collected near Shimoda. |
| Image ID: | 124073 |
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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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