Brasiliensis Collection

Giant Otter - pups Venezuela (Pteronura brasiliensis )

Aye-aye (near-threatened) and brown-throated sloth
Aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis (near-threatened), and brown-throated sloth, Bradypus variegatus brasiliensis. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies

Amazonian motmot, Momotus momota (Brasilian momot, Momota brasiliensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Cape hare and tapeti or Brazilian hare
Cape hare, Lepus capensis, and tapeti or Brazilian hare, Sylvilagus brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838

Mongolian gerbil and Brazilian tuco-tuco
Mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus, and Brazilian tuco-tuco, Ctenomys brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lessons Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris

Blue-crowned motmot, Momotus momota (Brasilian motmot, Momotus brasiliensis). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by John Latham from his own A General History of Birds, Winchester, 1822

Ballan wrasse, cuckoo wrasse and Brazilian wrasse
Ballan wrasse, Labrus bergylta, cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus, and Brazilian wrasse, Halichoeres brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by David after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Indian, Peruvian and Brazilian cobras
Indian cobra, Naja naja 1, Peruvian cobra 2, Naja tripudians, and Brazilian cobra 3, Naja brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard

Para rubber tree or sharinga tree, Hevea brasiliensis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehlers Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887

Brazilian rabbit, Sylvilagus brasiliensis (Lepus tapeti). From specimens in Berlin Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardines

Exotic crickets and wasps
Eneoptera surinamensis cricket 1, bedbug species, Cimex corticatus 2, mammoth wasp, Megascolia maculata flavifrons? 3, and Pelecinus polyturator wasp 4. Handcoloured lithograph from John O

Tapeti or Brazilian cottontail, Sylvilagus brasiliensis (Tapeti hare, Lepus tapeti). Illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith after a drawing in Berlin Library

Dorstenia brasiliensis (Peziza flowered dorstenia, Dorstenia tubicina). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Swan after an illustration by William Jackson Hooker from Samuel Curtis Botanical

South American or pinnated bittern, Botaurus pinnatus. (Brazilian bittern, Ardea brasiliensis.) From a specimen in the possession of Thomas Pennant

Mahogany and caesalpinia tree
Mahogany tree, Swietenia mahagoni 1, and caesalpinia tree, Caesalpinia violacea 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children)

Brazilian buddlea, Buddlea brasiliensis, with coral-pink flowers.. Illustration by WJ Hooker, engraved by Swan. Handcolored copperplate engraving from William Curtiss The Botanical Magazine, 1827

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