Shell Collecting. On 17th-Century Conchology, Curiosity Cabinets And Still Life Painting

Leonhard, Karin

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“…The syntype of H. bouvieri ( 4A-C) is indistinguishable from H. ramagei, but the discussion regarding H. bonnanius is slightly more colorful and it is worthwhile to recapitulate it here. Its original description (Jousseaume 1900) was based upon the work of the Jesuit scholar Filippo Buonanni (1638Buonanni ( -1723, who compiled the first conchology manual (Buonanni 1681) and is thus considered the Father of Conchology (Leonhard 2007). As Pilsbry (1901) argued, Buonanni's (1681) description of his Turbine #44 and its illustration (allowing for some distortion in the drawing) are vastly consistent with H. ramagei.…”

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Taxonomic revision of the genus Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Odontostomidae)

Salvador¹,

Cavallari‬²

2019

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The genus Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 comprises two living species endemic to the oceanic Fernando de Noronha Archipelago, off north-eastern Brazil. They are currently allocated in two subgenera, Hyperaulax s. str. and Bonnanius Jousseaume, 1900, belonging to the family Odontostomidae. Herein we present a taxonomic revision of these species, assessing their familiar allocation within Orthalicoidea, offering updated diagnoses and descriptions, figuring the type materials and further relevant specimens, and providing barcoding DNA sequences. We conclude that Bonnanius is a junior synonym of Hyperaulax, which is classified in Odontostomidae. The genus contains two valid species, H. ridleyi and H. ramagei, both endemic to Fernando de Noronha.

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Taxonomic revision of the genus Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Odontostomidae)

Salvador¹,

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2019

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“…Early-modern schemes were largely based on physical resemblances and emblematic significances. 45 Perceived geographical provenance was also an important criterion. New creatures were formed by early-modern naturalists in ways that integrated them into these flexible systems of shared symbolic and physical attributes.…”

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“…Karin Leonhard, for example, has described the beautiful conchological imagery used to symbolise the 'interrelations between commerce and riches in the Dutch Republic'. 13 The dodo was a dark counterpart to the more positive images that Leonhard explores.…”

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Assembling the dodo in early modern natural history

Lawrence¹

2015

Br J Hist Sci

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This paper explores the assimilation of the flightless dodo into early modern natural history. The dodo was first described by Dutch sailors landing on Mauritius in 1598, and became extinct in the 1680s or 1690s. Despite this brief period of encounter, the bird was a popular subject in natural-history works and a range of other genres. The dodo will be used here as a counterexample to the historical narratives of taxonomic crisis and abrupt shifts in natural history caused by exotic creatures coming to Europe. Though this bird had a bizarre form, early modern naturalists integrated the dodo and other flightless birds through several levels of conceptual categorization, including the geographical, morphological and symbolic. Naturalists such as Charles L'Ecluse produced a set of typical descriptive tropes that helped make up the European dodo. These long-lived images were used for a variety of symbolic purposes, demonstrated by the depiction of the Dutch East India enterprise in Willem Piso's 1658 publication. The case of the dodo shows that, far from there being a dramatic shift away from emblematics in the seventeenth century, the implicit symbolic roles attributed to exotic beasts by naturalists constructing them from scant information and specimens remained integral to natural history.

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Shell Collecting. On 17th-Century Conchology, Curiosity Cabinets And Still Life Painting

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Taxonomic revision of the genus Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Odontostomidae)

Taxonomic revision of the genus Hyperaulax Pilsbry, 1897 (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Odontostomidae)

Assembling the dodo in early modern natural history

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