digitized color book plate in landscape orientation; natural history art, scientific illustration, portrait of a Tomistoma in native landscape, sitting along a bank with head over the water’s edge (freshwater crocodilian of the family Gavialidae native to Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Sumatra, and Java)

#WorldTomistomaDay:
“Rhamphostoma schlegelii,” now Tomistoma schlegelii, the #Tomistoma (aka False Gharial)
Plate 106 in _Bilder-Atlas zur wissenschaftlich-populären Naturgeschichte der Wirbelthiere_, Wien,1867
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