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Triangular boxfish (Ostracion concatenatus)
unknown1770 - 1790
Civic Museums of Reggio Emilia
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Fish artificially assembled by combining the body of a fish of the Ostracidae family and a gypsum head, with teeth in cardstock. Classified as Cofano concatenato (Ostracion concatenatus)
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- Title: Triangular boxfish (Ostracion concatenatus)
- Creator: unknown
- Date: 1770 - 1790
- Physical Dimensions: w121 x h25 x d28 cm
- Photographer: Carlo Vannini
- Period: Second half of 18th century
- Bibliography: Jona A- “La collezione monumentale di Lazzaro Spallanzani classificata e ordinata secondo lo stato della scienza alla fine del secolo XVIII” catalogo guida , Reggio Emilia 1888. Spallanzani M.F. “La collezione naturalistica di Lazzaro Spallanzani : i modi e i tempi della sua formazione” Reggio Emilia, 1985
- Type: Taxidermic preparation
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