{"title":"Charles Plumier's (1646–1704) Vespertilio maximus ex insula Sancti Vincentii: a previously unpublished description and drawings of the Greater Bulldog Bat, Noctilio leporinus (Linnaeus, 1758)","authors":"Theodore W. Pietsch, Beatrice Marx","doi":"10.2988/006-324x-134.1.29","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>A previously unpublished description and drawings of the Greater Bulldog Bat, <em>Noctilio leporinus</em> (Linnaeus, 1758), made by French Minim friar Charles Plumier (1646–1704) during the first (1687–1688) of three voyages of exploration to the West Indies, are described and reproduced. The earliest known depiction of this taxon, Plumier's account is compared with later descriptions, especially those of Dutch apothecary Albertus Seba (1665–1736) and Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). Evidence is also presented to emphasize the originality and scientific accuracy of Plumier's account.</p>","PeriodicalId":54578,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington","FirstCategoryId":"99","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2988/006-324x-134.1.29","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"生物学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
Charles Plumier's (1646–1704) Vespertilio maximus ex insula Sancti Vincentii: a previously unpublished description and drawings of the Greater Bulldog Bat, Noctilio leporinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
A previously unpublished description and drawings of the Greater Bulldog Bat, Noctilio leporinus (Linnaeus, 1758), made by French Minim friar Charles Plumier (1646–1704) during the first (1687–1688) of three voyages of exploration to the West Indies, are described and reproduced. The earliest known depiction of this taxon, Plumier's account is compared with later descriptions, especially those of Dutch apothecary Albertus Seba (1665–1736) and Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778). Evidence is also presented to emphasize the originality and scientific accuracy of Plumier's account.
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The official publication of the Biological Society of Washington, the Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington is an international journal containing peer-reviewed papers that broadly bear on systematics in the biological sciences (botany and zoology), paleontology, and notices of business transacted at Society meetings.
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