Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
September 1777
Primary Source Reference:
Du Simitière Memorandum Books, Library of Congress, fol. 25v
Additional Source Text:
In one of eleven "white flint bottles containing in Spirit a variety of reptiles & fishes of Jamaica."
Notes:
This fish was probably a species of porcupine fish, one of which (Diodon hystrix) is pictured here.
The donor, Andrew Caldwell (1722-1788), was a Philadelphia merchant who during the Revolution commanded the Pennsylvania Navy which repelled the British ships Roebuck and Liverpool (Memorial to Commodore John Barry [Philadelphia, 1907], p. 3).
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Du Simitière's Common Name:
Hedgehog fish
Current Common Name:
Porcupine fish
Current Scientific Name
Diodon hystrix
