Ray Finned Fish Collection (#6)

Scarus coeruleus, blue parrotfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Pseudolabrus sp. wrasse
Watercolour 375 by Thomas Watling entitled Karra gnorra, from the Watling Collection

Lepomis macrochirus, bluegill
Drawing 7 (Ewan 34) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Callionymus lyra, dragonet
Plate 78 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

Fish and eel design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Sparisoma viride, stoplight parrotfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Scorpis sp. sweep
Watercolour 378 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Mannadaang, from the Watling Collection

Caesio lunaris, lunar fusilier
Plate 34 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Colourful illustration of three fish and a seahorse
Folio 11 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Coris picta, comb wrasse
Watercolour 374 by Thomas Watling, from the Watling Collection

Acipenser sturio, common sturgeon
Plate 96 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

Sebastes sp. rockfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Microcanthus strigatus, convict fish
Watercolour 380 by Thomas Watling, entitled Dea ne ang, from the Watling Collection

Oliver Crimmen with fish specimen
Photograph of Oliver Crimmen, a curator at the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is a Cypselurus bahiensis, four winged flying fish from the North Atlantic

Cypselurus californicus, four-winged flyingfish
Specimen jar containing a four-winged flyingfish (Cypselurus californicus), held in the Darwin Centre at The Natural History Museum, London

Eigenmannia sp. electric fish
Plate 144, pencil drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace from his Fishes of The Rio Negro, number 108

Lophiodes naresi, monkfish
Specimen jars containing monkfish (Lophiodes naresi), held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Cyprinid fish
Specimen jar containing tropical freshwater cyprinid fish from Indonesia, held at the Natural History Museum, London

Plate 16d from Specimens of British minerals? vol. 2 (1802) b
Plate 35A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Study detail of the head and mouth of the medium-sized, weed-dwelling, marine fish found along the coasts of the south-west Pacific

Salmon of the settlers

Cheilodactylus carponemus
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Flathead fish illustration
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

The common whiting
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Trachurus trachurus, common scad
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Scorpaena panda
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Flat nosed mullet
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Katsuwonus pelamis, skipjack of the Settlers
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Lutjanus campechanus, red snapper
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Red mullet by Robert Neill
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Danionella dracula, minnow
SEM image of the Danionella dracula. This tiny 17mm fish has evolved many unique and unusual characteristics, the most spectacular of which are jaw modifications that resemble true teeth

Common mullet of the Settlers
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Heros autochthon. Catalogue number 1961_7_7_6

Fossilised Macracara prisca, cichlid
This well-preserved, fossil specimen originates from the Lower Tertiary rocks of Brazil, some 65 million years ago

Cichlid from the family of perch-like fishes native to rivers and lakes in central and south America, Africa and Madagascar and parts of Asia

Thalassoma lunare, moon wrasse
Plate 107A from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57

Melanocoetus johnsoni, deep sea angler
Specimen of the deep sea angler (Melanocoetus johnsoni), a small predatory fish which lives in the extreme depths of the ocean

Coryphaenoides armatus, abyssal grenadier
Photograph of specimen jars containing grenadier fish collected south of Australia, 1874 on the Challenger voyage (1872-1876)

Scarus ghobban, blue-barred parrotfish
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge, c. 1910

Clupea alosa, shad
Plate 57 by Edward Donovan from his British Fishes, Vol 1, 1802

Amblypterus, palaeoniscid fish

Sphoeroides sp. pufferfish
Tableau 23 by Albertus Seba from his Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Coregonus vandesius, C. clupeoides, Thymallus vulgaris
Page 148 by W Houghton from his British Freshwater Fishes, 1879

Anthias anthias, blunt headed holy fish
Specimen collected on Captain James Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771 and labelled Perca imperator

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