Mark Catesby
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Mark Catesby was an English naturalist who studied the flora and fauna of the New World. Between 1729 and 1747, Catesby published his Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, the f
Mark Catesby's birthplace in Castle Hedingham, Essex
Title page, volume two, second edition of Catesby's The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, London, 1754
The ivory-billed woodpecker, which was later to be presumed extinct in North America. Here the bird is shown in association with the willow oak,Quercus phellos. Plate from Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands (1729–1747)
American bullfrog
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The American bullfrog, often simply known as the bullfrog in Canada and the United States, is a species of large frog in the family Ranidae. The species is native to eastern North America. It typicall
Mark Catesby
…Linnaeus in 1753 in his Species Plantarum based on plate 100 in volume two of Catesby's Natural history of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands. The American bullfrog, Lithobates catesbeianus, is named in honor of Catesby. Catesby is commemorated in the scientific names of two species of New World snakes: Dipsas…
North American bullfrog 1
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In typical aquatic habitat