Acantholuteres spilomelanurus - Tabaduck

Description

Tabaduck or Candiey or Bridled Leatherjacket, Acantholuteres spilomelanurus (Quoy and Gaimard)

Museum reference

Z.1980.73.24

Collection

Fishes

Scientific name(s)

species: Acantholuteres spilomelanurus - Tabaduck

Specimen details

Specimen form: Skin

Collection place(s)

King George Sound, Western Australia, Australia, Australasia

Associations

Collector: Neill, Robert, Assistant Commissary General, 1801 - 1852
Maintained in collection: New College, Edinburgh
Artist: Neill, Robert, Assistant Commissary General, 1801 - 1852
Reported on handwriting: Thomson, Malcolm Watson, 1980 (fl.)

References

Swinney, G. N. 1982. Some Richardson type specimens in a collection of Australian fishes, with notes on their collector Robert Neill. Archives of Natural History 11(1): 17-25.

Swinney, G. N. 1986. Robert Neill: artist and naturalist. pp. 34-38 in Calder, J. (ed) The Enterprising Scot. Edinburgh: Royal Museum of Scotland and Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Swinney, G. N. 1990. Actinopterygii. pp. 1-5 in Herman, J. S., McGowan, R. Y. & Swinney, G. N. (eds) Catalogue of the type specimens of recent vertebrates in the National Museums of Scotland.(National Museums of Scotland Information Series No. 4). Edinburgh: National Museums of Scotland.