Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By March 1821
Primary Source Reference:
C. A. Lesueur, "Descriptions of Several New Species of Cuttle-fish," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 2, part 1 (1821): 86-101 (described on pp. 92-94 and plate 8) / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36831274
Additional Source Text:
"Read March 20, 2021"
Notes:
A species of squid of the family Loliginidae.
Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778-1846) in Le Havre) was a French naturalist, artist, and explorer. He lived and traveled in the U.S. from 1816-1837, was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 1817, and published numerous scientific articles in the Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Many of his natual history drawings (now in the Bibliothèque centrale du Jardin des Plantes, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris) were based on specimens in the Peale Museum. Charles Willson Peale painted his portrait.
Peale's Scientific Name:
Loligo pealeii (Lesueur's name)
Current Common Name:
Longfin inshore squid
Current Scientific Name
Doryteuthis pealeii
