. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. The Historic Linck Collection of Snai<es 235. Plate 7. a. Match of (left) Boa constrictor (I2OI3A3) to (night) Scheuchzer (1735) plate 746, figure 1. Photos: A. M. Bauer, b. Match of (left) Cwtalus dwissus (12085A3) to (center) Scheuchzer (1735) plate 738, figure 4, and (right) Icones XLI- II. Left and center images: A. M. Bauer. Right image courtesy of Universitatsbibliothek Leipzig. itself pre-Linnaean and did not use binominal nomencla- ture. Selected images of Linck's snakes were subsequent- ly cited by Linneaus (1758, 1766), Laurenti (1768), Gmelin
. Bonn zoological bulletin. Zoology. The Historic Linck Collection of Snai<es 235. Plate 7. a. Match of (left) Boa constrictor (I2OI3A3) to (night) Scheuchzer (1735) plate 746, figure 1. Photos: A. M. Bauer, b. Match of (left) Cwtalus dwissus (12085A3) to (center) Scheuchzer (1735) plate 738, figure 4, and (right) Icones XLI- II. Left and center images: A. M. Bauer. Right image courtesy of Universitatsbibliothek Leipzig. itself pre-Linnaean and did not use binominal nomencla- ture. Selected images of Linck's snakes were subsequent- ly cited by Linneaus (1758, 1766), Laurenti (1768), Gmelin (1789), La Cepede (1789), Bonnaterre (1790), Schneider (1801, 1821), Shaw (1802), and Daudin (1802a, 1802b, 1802c). Of these authors, only Schneider, who was based in eastern Germany and who had praised Linck and his collection (1792, 1797) is likely to have ac- tually seen the specimens or perhaps at least the Icones (see footnotes Table 2). Merrem (1820) was the first au- thor to formally place the majority of the Scheuchzer plates into the synonymy of recognized species. Boie (1827) in his critique of Merrem (1820) also commented on the identity of the Linck snakes. The most comprehen- sive evaluations of their identities, however, were made by Schlegel (1837) in his Physionoinie des Serpens, a global review of snakes, and by Dumeril & Bibron (1844) and Dumeril et al. (1854a, 1854b) in Erpetologie Generale, the most detailed herpetological treatise pro- duced to that time (Table 2). These authors largely agreed on identifications, although there were some differences of opinion and some images were regarded as being too imprecisely drawn to allow unambiguous identification. We used the identifications of previous authors as a guideline for our own determinations of Scheuchzer's fig- ures, but did not restrict our considerations to these taxa. We also compiled lists of possible subjects based on our own knowledge of snakes and obtained suggestions from a panel of colleagu
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