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"Stopp, Klaus"

Stopp, Klaus: SEE Faust et al., 2002. (detail)
 
 
 Faust, Ingrid; with cooperation of Barthelmess, Klaus, and Stopp, Klaus (detail)
   
2002
Zoologische Einblattdrucke und Flugschriften vor 1800. Band IV. Wale, Sirenen, und Elefanten.
Stuttgart, Hiersemann Publs.: 1-402. 259 figs. 1 pl.
–Rev.: C. C. Kinze, Mar. Mamm. Sci. 19(4): 851-852, Oct. 2003. This work reproduces and discusses (on pp. 272-277) two 1565 broadsheets describing and illustrating a sea-monster that appeared and was killed at São Vicente, Brazil, in December 1564. One (Faust's no. 643), in Italian, was printed in Venice; the other (no. 644) is in German and was printed at Augsburg. These were also cited by Whitehead (1977, as his Anon. 1565b and 1565a, respectively), who also gives an Engl. transl. of no. 644. Faust et al. also include two other drawings (obviously derived from the above) that are found in MSS. by Aldrovandi and Gândavo, respectively. Whitehead (1977), however, has discussed these accounts and images and their bibliography at length, and shown that the animal in question was not a manatee (as assumed here) but likely a pinniped.
 In fact, the only true manatee illustrated by Faust et al. appears in a detail of gores from a Mercator globe of 1541, on which the sea east of the Lesser Antilles is decorated with a manatee redrawn from Oviedo, "1532" (actually 1535).
Daryl P. Domning, Research Associate, Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560, and Laboratory of Evolutionary Biology, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, Howard University, Washington, D.C. 20059.
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