Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
By February 1824
Primary Source Reference:
C. A. LeSueur, "Description of a New Species of Cephalopode of the Genus Loligo," Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, vol. 3, part 2 (1824): 282-284 / https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24668930
Additional Source Text:
"Read February 3, 1824"
"The specimen was taken in Delaware bay, and now forms part of the collection of the Philadelphia Museum."
Notes:
What Lesueur desgnated Loligo brevipinna ia now Lolliguncula brevis, or the Atlantic brief squid, is a small species of squid in the Loliginidae family. It is found in shallow parts of the western Atlantic Ocean. This specimen was given to the Museum by Thomas Stevenson on October 19, 1822. Peale Museum Accessions Book, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, p. 122
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.
Current Common Name:
Atlantic brief squid
Current Scientific Name
Lolliguncula brevis
