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2: "Vacca marina" = Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)
3: "Porcus monstrosus Oceani Germanici" = Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)
4: "Rosmarus seu Morsus Norvegicus" = Odobenus rosmarus rosmarus (Linnaeus, 1758)

English: Atlantic Walrus sketches, copied from:

2: the 1560 addendum to Conrad Gesner's Historiae animalium (originally from Olaus Magnus' 1539 Carta marina; figure B-B)
3: the 1568 edition of Olaus Magnus' 1555 Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus (originally from the 1539 Carta marina; figure D-K)

4: the 1568 edition of Olaus Magnus' 1555 Historia de gentibus septentrionalibus
Date (published 1854)
Source Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London (vol. 1852, page 113)
Author R.C.West
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