Fish rubbings, ‘gyotaku’, as a source of historical biodiversity data

Methods for obtaining historical biodiversity information are mostly limited to examining museum specimens or surveying past literature. Such materials are sometimes time limited due to degradation, discarding, or other loss. The Japanese cultural art of ‘gyotaku’, which means “fish impression” or “...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yusuke Miyazaki, Atsunobu Murase
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Pensoft Publishers 2019-01-01
Series:ZooKeys
Online Access:https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/47721/download/pdf/