An early (1834) illustration of the wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor (Lilljeborg, 1844), from Finland

Karl Fredga, Torsten Stjernberg, Ingvar Svanberg

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Abstrakti

The wood lemming, Myopus schisticolor, was described as a new species by the Swedish zoologist Wilhelm Lilljeborg in 1844 from a specimen captured in Norway the year before. With the original description was a fine hand-coloured lithograph by the artist Magnus Körner. A Latin translation of the description published later that year also used an illustration by Körner, but it was of lesser quality. However, the species had been observed, described and depicted earlier, but these renderings never reached the scientific community. In 2008 and 2009 respectively, one illustration of the wood lemming made by the Finnish-born artist Wilhelm von Wright was sold twice at auctions in Stockholm. The illustration is dated 1834 and shows a specimen that was found dead at the artist's native home, Haminalaks, in Kuopio parish, Central Finland, that year. However, an accurate description of the species had already been made in 1765, by a group of young naturalists on a tour in the Swedish province Dalecarlia.
Alkuperäiskielienglanti
LehtiArchives of Natural History
Vuosikerta38
Numero2
Sivut214-219
Sivumäärä6
ISSN0260-9541
DOI - pysyväislinkit
TilaJulkaistu - lokak. 2011
OKM-julkaisutyyppiA1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä, vertaisarvioitu

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