Observations on the genus Salamandra : and description of a new genus of quadrupeds, of the order Edentata / by Richard Harlan.
- Richard Harlan
- Date:
- [1825]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Observations on the genus Salamandra : and description of a new genus of quadrupeds, of the order Edentata / by Richard Harlan. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![[From the Annals of the New-York Lyceum of Natural History, Vol. I.] Observations on ike Genus Salamandra, with the anatomy of the Salamandra gigantea (Barton) or S. Alleghani- ensis (Michaux) and two new genera proposed. By R. Harlan, M. D. Read Dec. 27, 1824. During my researches into the Linnean Lacerta, I found myself very much embarrassed by the confusion which exists in the present classification and arrangement of this depart- ment of zoology ; the Salamandra have not unfrequently been confounded with the Proteus and Siren, and these latter de- scribed as the former ; and in a few instances including indi- viduals generically distinct from either. This confusion has been not a little increased by the late discovery of several in- dividuals of this family, which cannot without violence be referred to any existing genera.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22397607_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
