Reference : The Castelnau's fish collection and watercolour notebooks

	Document type :	Scientific congresses and symposiums : Paper published in a book
	Discipline(s) :	Life sciences : Zoology
	To cite this reference:	http://hdl.handle.net/2268/99840

Title :	The Castelnau's fish collection and watercolour notebooks
Language :	English
Alternative title :	[fr] Les carnets d'aquarelles et la collection de poissons de Castelnau
Author, co-author :	Loneux, Michèle [Université de Liège - ULg > Département des sciences de la vie > Musée de Zoologie > >]
Publication date :	2006
Main document title :	Proceedings of the 3rd GBIF Science Symposium - Tropical Biodiversity: Science, Data, Conservation
Editor :	Segers, Hendrik
	Desmet, P.
	Baus, Erika
Pages :	91-94
Audience :	International
Event name :	3rd GBIF Science Symposium, Brussels 18-19 April 2005 - Tropical Biodiversity: Science, Data, Conservation
Event date :	du 18 au 19 Avril 2005
Event organizer :	Belgian Biodiversity Platform & Belgian Science Policy
Event place (city) :	Brussels
Event country :	Belgium
Keywords :	[en] Castelnau's expedition ; watercolour notebooks ; Chrysophrys nasutus ; fish ; type-specimens
Abstract :	[en] In 1865, Jean-Theodore Lacordaire (professor of natural sciences at the University of Liège) purchased more than thousand specimens collected by the famous explorer ‘Comte de Castelnau’. Castelnau (London 1812 – Melbourne 1880) travelled around the world being both explorer and diplomat. His most famous trip was the crossing of South America from Mato Gross to Peru, coming back by the Amazon. He discovered and described several species. The specimens collected by Castelnau present at the Museum of Zoology include mainly birds and fishes. One of the fish specimens is labelled as Chrysophrys nasutus type and is probably the (holo)type specimen for Cymatoceps nasutus. The fish specimens were accompanied by five original watercolour notebooks, showing coloured fish-drawings made by the collector at the catch moment. Despite the fact that some of the paintings were used in the past to restore the colours of the naturalised fishes, further research on the relations between the collection and the notebooks should be made.
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