Porcupine fish
Category
Natural History / Taxidermy
Date
Unknown
Materials
Taxidermy fish
Measurements
Length 450 mm; Circumference 890 mm.
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336221
Caption
The tough skin and large scales of warm water fish make them most suitable for preservation. The fish is skinned which is then preserved and either mounted over a manikin or the fish's body cavity packed with a filler material, shaped and then allowed to harden.
Summary
A large Porcupine fish with small brown spots on a beige background, probably Diodon species. Hanging upside down on metal wire.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade.