Savage Islands
Selvagens
Sé · Funchal · Selvagens
island group attached to the municipality of Funchal
Approximate location, from a feature named after it
A small uninhabited island group, politically part of the Madeira archipelago. The Elucidário covers its geography, geology, fauna, ownership history and legends of hidden treasure, including Shackleton's treasure plans, and notes the annual hunting of shearwaters and rabbits. It is the only remaining home of the limpet Patella vulgata and was studied by naturalists such as Lowe and Garreta.
1Mentioned in
- Kulczynski (V.) — Islands where part of the arachnids were collected.
- Limpets — Only remaining home of Patella vulgata; source of salted and pickled limpets.
- Geology — Subject of a 1940 geological study.
- Noronha (Adolfo César de) — Source of fossil shells he sent to Dr Böhm.
- Latzel (Dr) — Covered by his myriapod study.
- Caracol da Vinha (Helix pisana) — The snail is also found there.
- Caramujo (Trochus colubrinus) — Source of salted or pickled caramujo imports.
- Caramujo de Dona (Littorina striata) — The species also occurs there.
- Somerville (Captain B. T.) — Island group charted by the Argonaut's officers in 1915.
- Cenoura da rocha (Monizia edulis) — Islands where the plant has been found.
- Lowe (Revd Richard Thomas) — Subject of Lowe's Florulae Salvagicae Tentamen.
- Garreta (Léon) — Islands Garreta explored in June 1911.
- Ants — Where Monomorium salomonis was found.
- Discovery of the archipelago — Named in the Spanish friar's description.
- Rothschild (Baron Charles) — Islands visited by the 1922 expedition where the flea was found.
- Joksimowitsch (Ziwko) — Source of fossils studied by Joksimowitsch.
- Wild canary (Serinus canaria) — Where the bird has not been recorded.
- Madeiran history — Subject of Sarmento's 1906 work.
- White-faced storm petrel (Pelagodroma marina) — Breeding ground of the bird.
- Osga (Tarentola mauritanica var. angustimentalis) — Where the gecko occurs.
- Bryozoans — Source of bryozoan species studied.
- Beneden (Baron Charles Van) — Subject of his travel narrative.
- Carocha (Blaps gages) — Where the beetle occurs.
- Cory’s shearwater (Puffinus kuhli) — Islands where about 18,000 young shearwaters are caught yearly.
- Longing for the Homeland — Islands covered by Book II.
- Madeira archipelago — Island group included in the Funchal district.
- Grant (W. R. O.) — Islands explored scientifically by Grant.
- Craca (Balanus tintinnabulum) — Where the barnacle occurs.
- Kerhallet (C. Ph. J.) — Islands covered in Kerhallet's work.
- Parrotfish (Scarus cretensis) — The fish is common even around the Selvagens islands.
- Bohm (Dr Joannes) — Source of the fossils studied.
- Madeira (archipelago) — Islands included with the archipelago in the Funchal district.
- Gain (Dr L.) — Whose algae Gain also studied.
- Administrative organisation — Islands belonging to Funchal municipality.
- Monizia — Later locality of Monizia edulis.
- Castelo de Paiva (António da Costa Paiva, Baron of) — Source of a new Sempervivum he described in 1866.
- Fauna — Main breeding ground of the cagarra shearwater.
- Berthelot’s pipit (Anthus Bertheloti) — Part of the pipit's range.
- Fauvel (Alberto) — Subject of a separate beetle catalogue by Fauvel.
- Concharéu (Patella vulgata, var. Candei) — Islands where this limpet is abundant today.
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2Chronology
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Kerhallet's work on Madeira, the Selvagens and the Canaries was published in Paris.
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W. R. O. Grant published a paper on the birds of the Salvage Islands in The Ibis.
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Joannes Böhm published his paper on fossils of the Selvagens.
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V. Kulczynski published in Cracow his study of the spiders and arachnids of the Madeira archipelago and the Selvagens.
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Léon Garreta made a scientific exploration of the Selvagens.
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Officers of the British ship Argonaut under Captain B. T. Somerville charted the Selvagens Islands.
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A Madeiran scientific expedition visited the Selvagens islands.
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J. C. de Morais published a geological study of the Selvagens.