For #InternationalSnowLeopardDay :
Ounce (Snow Leopard)
Plate VI in A handbook to the carnivora : part 1 : cats, civets, and mongooses by Richard Lydekker, London, 1896
via BHL
Today is also #AfricanPenguinAwarenessDay!
Plate by Joseph Smit (1836–1929) from “Report on the birds collected during the voyage of H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873-76” (1881).
🚨 The African Penguin (Spheniscus demersus) is an #EndangeredSpecies.
Today is also #WorldSlothBearDay!
“The ursine sloth, or sloth bear. In the gardens of the Zoological Society.”
19th c. colored etching by W. Panorma (1796-1867) after W. Berthoud.
Wellcome Collection
🚨The Sloth Bear (Melursus ursinus) is a #ThreatenedSpecies (current IUCN status: Vulnerable).
For #WorldDugongDay:
Plate 23 in John Edward Gray’s Illustrations of Indian Zoology, V. 2, 1833-4. "Indian Dugong, Halicora Dugung" (now Dugong, Dugong dugon). Hand-colored lithograph of an original illustration by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins (English, 1807-1894).
It's #WorldDugongDay!
#DYK the Dugong is the only surviving Sirenian cousin of the Manatees; its closest modern relative, Steller's Sea Cow, was hunted to extinction in the 18th century. 😢
Louis Paul Jonas (USA, 1894-1971) Dugong sculpture, H 7 x W 14 x D 7.25 in.
#WorldFrogDay: #DYK that over 1/3 of frog species are currently listed as threatened? That includes #1 on the plate bleow, the Giant Marsupial Frog (Gastrotheca ovifera).
"Batrachia" Plate 68 in Kunstformen der Natur (1899-1904) by Ernst Haeckel (German, 1834-1919). Biodiversity Heritage Library.
1. Notodelphys ovifera (Weinland) now Gastrotheca ovifera (Lichtenstein & Weinland 1854; name revision by Rivero 1961)
2. Hyla meridionalis (Boulenger) authority usually given as (Boettger 1874)
3. Hyla tuberculosa (Boulenger) now Ecnomiohyla tuberculosa
4. Amphignathodon Güntheri or Amphignathodon guntheri (Boulenger) now Gastrotheca guentheri (Boulenger 1882; name revision by Duellman, Maxson & Jesiolowski 1988)
5. Rhacophorus pardalis (Wallace) authority usually given as (Günther 1858)
6. Hylodes lineatus (Schneider) now Craugastor lineatus (Brocchi 1879)
7. Limnodytes erythraeus (Duméril) now Hylarana erythraea (Schlegel 1837)
8. Cerathobatrachus Güntheri or Ceratobatrachus guentheri (Boulenger)
9. Breviceps mossambicus (Peters)
10.Rana pipiens (Linné) now Lithobates pipiens
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