Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 9, 1822
Primary Source Reference:
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser (Philadelphia), 9 Jan 1822
Additional Source Text:
On a list of specimens "mostly obtained from high up the Missouri by Titian Peale" during the Long Expedition. Five species of salamander are listed in the "Catalogue of the names of the animals, which we observed at Engineer Cantonment [near present-day Omaha, Nebraska], or at other indicated places, on our journey to that post," all collected on the Ohio River near Shippingsport or Pittsburgh. (Edwin James, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and '20: By Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long, vol. 1 [Philadelphia, 1823], pp. 375-376)
Notes:
One of the five species listed, Salamandra longicauda (now Eurycea longicauda, the long-tailed salamander), was depicted by T. R. Peale.
Titian Ramsay Peale (1799-1885) was engaged as assistant naturalist on the Long Expedition (May 1819-Nov 1820). His services were "required in collecting specimens suitable to be preserved, in drafting and delineating them, in preserving the skins, &c. of animals, and in sketching the statifications of rocks, earths &c. as presented on the declivities of precipices." (Edwin James, Account of an Expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains, Performed in the Years 1819 and '20: By Order of the Hon. J.C. Calhoun, Sec'y of War: Under the Command of Major Stephen H. Long, vol. 1 [Philadelphia, 1823], p. 3)
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Common Name:
Salamander
Current Common Name:
Long-tailed salamander
Current Scientific Name
Eurycea longicauda
