Object Status:
Unlocated
Accession Date:
January 23, 1789
Primary Source Reference:
Pennsylvania Packet (Philadelphia), 23 Jan 1789
Additional Source Text:
"Presented to Mr. Peale's American Museum, since his late arrival in Baltimore."
Notes:
Charles Willson Peale's Diary adds: "from Curaçao." Selected Papers, 1: 557
The trumpetfishes are three species of highly specialized, tubular-elongated marine fishes in the genus Aulostomus. The Aulostomus maculatus, or West Atlantic trumpetfish, is pictured here.
Henry Keerl (1755-1827), a native of Germany, was a physician in Baltimore. See Eugene Cordell, M.D., "Dr. Heinrich or Henry Keerl, of Baltimore, the 'Hessian Surgeon'," Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital, vol. 16, no. 169 (April 1905): 133-135.
Specimen Type:
Dead/preserved
Peale's Common Name:
Trumpet-fish
Current Common Name:
West Atlantic trumpetfish
Current Scientific Name
Aulostomus maculatus
