South American mammal diversity and Hernandez’s Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus

Capanna, Ernesto

doi:10.1007/s12210-009-0003-6

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“…Its introduction in Italy dates back to 1560 and the first descriptions of this species are from Matthioli (1565) and Hernandez (1648). As an animal symbol, the armadillo of the Museum of Athanasius Kircher was probably the model and its portrayal should be interpreted as the "symbol and emblem" of the century of the surprising and fantastic (Capanna 2009).…”

Section: Rio Della Plata: the Mysterious "New Indies"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant iconography and its message: realism and symbolic message in the Bernini fountain of the four rivers in Rome

Caneva

Altieri

Kumbaric

et al. 2020

Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei

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The use of symbols in architecture of the past centuries is evident, even if sometimes cryptic. The reasons behind the representation of plants in artistic and architectural contexts are of great interest as they help in their understanding. We analysed the plants carved in the Fountain of Four Rivers (Rome), designed by G.L. Bernini (mid-seventeenth century), through iconographic and historical documents. The carved plants (about 34 species) creates a natural and symbolic association with the selected rivers and continents. Some species are chosen to characterise various geographic contexts or fluvial and rupestrian habitats or are referred to the papal coats of arms (Innocent X Pamphilj). A certain number has auspicious connotation and takes a strong symbolic salvific meaning and protective against the evil’s threat. The Kircherian influence emerges in several iconographic choices, as well as the river selection and orientation, in a philosophical-religious logic linked to the Papacy and Christianity role.

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Section: Rio Della Plata: the Mysterious "New Indies"mentioning

confidence: 99%

Plant iconography and its message: realism and symbolic message in the Bernini fountain of the four rivers in Rome

Caneva

Altieri

Kumbaric

et al. 2020

Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei

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“…Identificación correcta en imágenes teniendo en cuenta que ya en el siglo XVII Joannes Jonstonus (1660) había relacionado a los armadillos con tortugas y Athanasius Kircher había postulado que los armadillos eran el fruto de la hibridación entre tortugas y erizos (Capanna, 2009). …”

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The editors wish to thank all reviewers for their collaboration. Front Cover Photo Letter from the EditorsWelcome to Edentata 17! This year's issue of Edentata includes five articles, three short communications, and two field notes, all of them related to the conservation of xenarthrans. Among others, you will find two articles on the poorly known Dasypus kappleri, three on tamanduas, and two articles from countries that have notoriously been underrepresented in the literature on xenarthrans: Suriname and Chile. There is even an article on armadillo consumption by an unusual species, the tiger shark.As always, you will find some interesting announcements in the News section, including the well-deserved recognition of our Panamanian Specialist Group member and pygmy sloth expert Diorene J. Smith as a Disney Conservation Hero. Congratulations, Diorene! We are pleased to inform you that all articles published in Edentata will now have a Digital Object Identifier (DOI). You will find it in the header of each article's cover page. We are immensely thankful to IUCN, and especially to Deborah Murith from IUCN's Science and Knowledge Unit, for their help with assigning the DOI's to Edentata.Mariella Superina has been invited to serve as Chair of our Specialist Group during the next quadrennium. She is honored to do so, and extremely happy that Nadia Moraes-Barros and Agustín M. Abba have agreed to continue acting as Deputy Chair and Red List Authority, respectively, for another four years. We have taken the opportunity to include more experts in our Specialist Group with the purpose of reaching a balanced group of motivated, active members that represent all (or most) range countries and taxa. Following recommendations by our current members, the evaluation committee has selected the following new members: Monique Pool (Green Heritage Fund Suriname), Lizette Bermúdez (Parque Zoológico Huachipa, Peru), Maria Clara Arteaga (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Mexico), Andy Noss (University of Florida, USA), and Paul Smith (FAUNA Paraguay). We would like to give them a warm welcome and are looking forward to working with them! Finally, we are hugely grateful to Austin Zoo for the generous financial support, which once again allowed us to publish Edentata. Last, but not least, we would like to thank all anonymous reviewers for their excellent work. Abstract Indigenous knowledge is a potentially important source of natural history information about unstudied species of large Amazonian mammals. The Matses, a Panoan-speaking tribe that lives in the basin of the Río Yavarí in northeastern Peru and western Brazil, retain intact traditional knowledge of the local fauna and flora. Our interviews with Matses hunters provide a rich source of original observations about Dasypus kappleri, the greater long-nosed armadillo, which we analyzed for accuracy and content by comparing items of Matses natural history information with the scientific literature. Of 66 items about this species gleaned from ei...

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“…Número teniendo en cuenta que ya en el siglo XVII Joannes Jonstonus (1660) había relacionado a los armadillos con tortugas y Athanasius Kircher había postulado que los armadillos eran el fruto de la hibridación entre tortugas y erizos (Capanna, 2009).…”

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Percepción del público de un zoológico de Chile sobre los armadillos (Cingulata)

Morales¹,

Superina²

2016

Edentata

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Resumen De las 20 especies de armadillos (Xenarthra: Cingulata) conocidas, sólo tres se distribuyen en Chile. Se evaluó el conocimiento del público visitante en un zoológico de Chile sobre los armadillos. De 200 visitantes encuestados, el 25% no sabía qué tipo de animal era el armadillo. De los 150 restantes, el 59% desconocía que algunas de estas especies habitan naturalmente en Chile y sólo un 19% los había visto en vida libre, principalmente en Argentina. Los asociaban con mayor frecuencia con erizos y tortugas. Estos resultados demuestran la necesidad de desarrollar estrategias de educación y programas de conservación nacionales para armadillos.

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South American mammal diversity and Hernandez’s Novae Hispaniae Thesaurus

Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Plant iconography and its message: realism and symbolic message in the Bernini fountain of the four rivers in Rome

Plant iconography and its message: realism and symbolic message in the Bernini fountain of the four rivers in Rome

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Percepción del público de un zoológico de Chile sobre los armadillos (Cingulata)

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