Yellowbelly sea snake and red-bellied black snake

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Yellowbelly sea snake, pelamide bicolore, Pelamis platura, and Asian pit viper, trimeresure petite-tete, Trimeresurus species. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles" 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by Pretre, engraved by Plee, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History.

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