Moluccan sail-finned lizard or Ambon sailfin dragon, Hydrosaurus amboinensis. Basking on a bough. Le porte-crete, Le porte-cree (sic), Basilic d'Amboine, Basilicus amboinensis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Madame Félicie Fournier after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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