EditorialOplurus brasiliensis, Print, An Oplurus iguana (saxicolous) with tail twice as long as body. Light grey without banding. Oplurus is a genus of Malagasy iguanian lizards, most of which are rock-dwelling terrestrial species., 1700-1880.
EditorialTangara mexicana, Print, The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident bird from Trinidad, Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia and much of Brazil (despite its scientific name, it is not found ...
EditorialTangara mexicana, Print, The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident bird from Trinidad, Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia and much of Brazil (despite its scientific name, it is not found ...
EditorialCtenomys brasiliensis, Print, The Brazilian tuco-tuco (Ctenomys brasiliensis) is a tuco-tuco species from South America. It is found mainly in the state of Minas Gerais in southeastern Brazil, though Charles Darwin mentions it during his trip through p...
EditorialNarcine brasiliensis, Print, The Brazilian electric ray (Narcine brasiliensis) is a species of electric ray in the family Narcinidae. It inhabits reefs along the western coast of the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico from North Carolina to northern...
EditorialMomotus brasiliensis, Print, Momotus is a small genus of the motmots, a family of near passerine birds found in forest and woodland of the Neotropics. They have a colourful plumage, which is green on the back becoming blue on the flight feathers and th...
EditorialMergus brasiliensis, Print, Mergus is the genus of the typical mergansers, fish-eating ducks in the subfamily Anatinae. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird., 1825-1834.
EditorialNyctinomus brasiliensis, Print, The Mexican free-tailed bat or Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium-sized bat native to the Americas, regarded as one of the most abundant mammals in North America. Its proclivity towards roostin...
EditorialMomotus brasiliensis, Print, Momotus is a small genus of the motmots, a family of near passerine birds found in forest and woodland of the Neotropics. They have a colourful plumage, which is green on the back becoming blue on the flight feathers and th...
EditorialMomotus brasiliensis, Print, Momotus is a small genus of the motmots, a family of near passerine birds found in forest and woodland of the Neotropics. They have a colourful plumage, which is green on the back becoming blue on the flight feathers and th...
EditorialHolochilus brasiliensis, Print, Holochilus brasiliensis, also known as the Brazilian marsh rat or web-footed marsh rat, is a species of semiaquatic rodent from South America. It is found in northeastern Argentina, southern and eastern Brazil and in eas...
EditorialTangara mexicana, Print, The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident bird from Trinidad, Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia and much of Brazil (despite its scientific name, it is not found ...
EditorialNyctinomus brasiliensis, Print, The Mexican free-tailed bat or Brazilian free-tailed bat (Tadarida brasiliensis) is a medium-sized bat native to the Americas, regarded as one of the most abundant mammals in North America. Its proclivity towards roostin...
EditorialMomotus brasiliensis, Print, Momotus is a small genus of the motmots, a family of near passerine birds found in forest and woodland of the Neotropics. They have a colourful plumage, which is green on the back becoming blue on the flight feathers and th...
EditorialTangara mexicana, Print, The turquoise tanager (Tangara mexicana) is a medium-sized passerine bird. This tanager is a resident bird from Trinidad, Colombia and Venezuela south to Bolivia and much of Brazil (despite its scientific name, it is not found ...
EditorialIndian 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 Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quad...
EditorialBallan wrasse, Labrus bergylta, cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus, and Brazilian wrasse, Halichoeres brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by David after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of...
EditorialCape hare, Lepus capensis, and tapeti or Brazilian hare, Sylvilagus brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838.
EditorialPica grisea Brasiliensis. Dimensions: plate: 26.5 x 19.8 cm (10 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 43.5 x 27.1 cm (17 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.). Medium: hand-colored etching on laid paper.
EditorialPica grisea Brasiliensis. Dimensions: plate: 26.5 x 19.8 cm (10 7/16 x 7 13/16 in.) sheet: 43.5 x 27.1 cm (17 1/8 x 10 11/16 in.). Medium: hand-colored etching on laid paper.
EditorialIndian 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 Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of Oviparous Quad...
EditorialBallan wrasse, Labrus bergylta, cuckoo wrasse, Labrus mixtus, and Brazilian wrasse, Halichoeres brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by David after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre from Bernard Germain de Lacepede's Natural History of...
EditorialCape hare, Lepus capensis, and tapeti or Brazilian hare, Sylvilagus brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Rene Primevere Lesson's Complements de Buffon, Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1838.
EditorialBrazilian rabbit, Sylvilagus brasiliensis (Lepus tapeti). From specimens in Berlin Museum. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardine's Naturalist's Library, Edinburgh, 1843.
EditorialPara rubber tree or sharinga tree, Hevea brasiliensis. Chromolithograph after a botanical illustration from Hermann Adolph Koehler's Medicinal Plants, edited by Gustav Pabst, Koehler, Germany, 1887.
EditorialSouth American or pinnated bittern, Botaurus pinnatus. (Brazilian bittern, Ardea brasiliensis.) From a specimen in the possession of Thomas Pennant. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Peter Brown from his New Illustrations of Zoology, B. White, Lond...
EditorialBlue-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.
EditorialAye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis (near-threatened), and brown-throated sloth, Bradypus variegatus brasiliensis. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Charles d'Orbigny's Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire N...
EditorialAmazonian motmot, Momotus momota (Brasilian momot, Momota brasiliensis). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, London, 1806.
EditorialTapeti or Brazilian cottontail, Sylvilagus brasiliensis (Tapeti hare, Lepus tapeti). Illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith after a drawing in Berlin Library. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Griffith, Harriet or Edward, from Edward Griffith's The...
EditorialMexican clover or Brazilian calla-lily, Richardia brasiliensis. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by F. Guimpel from Dr. Friedrich Gottlob Hayne's Medical Botany, Berlin, 1822. Hayne (1763-1832) was a German botanist, apothecary and professor of pharm...
EditorialBrazilian wrasse, Halichoeres brasiliensis. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's "The Naturalist's Miscellany," London, 1805.
EditorialContrayerva or carapia, Dorstenia brasiliensis, showing leaves, root rhizome and leaf outline. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Lambert Junior from a drawing by Pierre Jean-Francois Turpin from Chaumeton, Poiret et Chamberet's "La Flore Me...