Giant clam, Tridacna gigas, and beetles, Tricondyla aptera, Xya variegata (Tridactylus variegatus). Handcoloured steel engraving from Felix-Edouard Guerin-Meneville's Dictionnaire Pittoresque d'Histoire Naturelle (Picturesque Dictionary of Natural History), Paris, 1834-39.

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