Actinopterygii Collection (page 6)

Acipenser sp. sturgeon
An eight foot long sturgeon, caught off the coast of Wales, June 2004. It was once the subject of a police investigation, but was eventually donated to the Natural History Museum, London

Prionotus miles, Galapagos gurnard
Fish collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Selar crumenophthalmus, bigeye scad
Fish labelled Caranx torvus collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Calamus taurinus, Galapagos porgy
Fish labelled Chrysophrys taurina collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Hemidoras stenopeltis, catfish
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace of the catfish Hemidoras stenopeltis from Cuyucuyu, Upper Rio Negro

Hydrocynus sp. tigerfish
Specimen skull of a tigerfish (Hydrocynus sp.). Tigerfish are found in warm rivers and lakes throughout Africa, they are fierce and voracious feeding on whatever is most abundant

Hoplostethus atlanticus, orange roughy
Photograph of three orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus). These handsome and widespread, deep-living fish are already suffering from overfishing in some places

Regalecus glesne, oarfish
Specimen of an oarfish (Realecus glesne). This species of fish is possibly the longest in the world. Photographed by Harry Taylor

Plate from Charles Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the Bea
Fish from South American and Tahitian waters including Agonopsis chiloens, found by Charles Darwin in the Chiloe archipelago, off the west coast of South America

Sphoeroides angusticeps, narrow headed puffer
Fish from the Galapagos Islands collected by Charles Darwin from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Catfish
Drawing no 114 by Alfred Russel Wallace

Coryphaenoides sp. rattail
A specimen jar containing rattail fish (Coryphaenoides sp.) collected south of Australia, 1874 on The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876)

Anarhichas lupus, Atlantic catfish
A specimen of the Atlantic catfish (Anarhichas lupus). Technically a wolffish and not a catfish this deep-sea, bottom-dwelling fish can be found in temperate

Paralichthys adspersus, fine flounder
Fish labelled Hippoglossus kingii collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Isalnds. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Scientists at play, 1899
An attendant in the Botany Library, Robert Hugh Bunting captured his colleagues at play in this humorous private photograph of Museum life taken in 1899

Ophioblennius atlanticus
Fish found by Charles Darwin in the Cape Verde Islands from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Asterophysus batrachus, ogre catfish
Drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace of the ogre catfish (Asterophysus batrachus) from Mamyacu, Upper Rio Negro

Gobiesox marmoratus
Fish collected by Charles Darwin in South American and Tahitian waters from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Arothron meleagris, puffer fish
Pencil drawing with some colour. Sydney Parkinson wrote the whole of this Fish fins & all is a purple black spotted with milk colour d spots/the teeth dirty white. (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Coryphaenoides sp. rattails
Four specimens of rattails on sand

Coccoderma suevicum, fossil coelacanth
This fossil coelacanth originates from the Lithographic Limestone, Bavaria and is 150 million years old. Prepared by acid transfer. Polygonal block is glass fibre not original rock

Pholiodophorus bechei, fossil fish
A bony fish specimen preserved in the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis, Dorset

The Emperors Pike
Late 17th or early 18th century oil painting by an unknown artist of the pike which is reputed to have lived in a pool in Lautern for 267 years

Epinephelus quoyanus, longfin grouper
Epinephelus quoyanu, longfin grouper. Holotype of Serranus gilbertii Richardson, BMNH 1843.6.15.59, collected at Black Point, Port Essington

Apogon aprion, mouth almighty
Type specimens of Apogon aprion, mouth almighty. Holotype BMNH 1972.6.8.1

Chelmon marginalis, margined coralfish. Holotype BMNH 1843.6.15.48, from Coral Bay, Port Essington (dried specimen)

Glossamia aprion, mouth almighty
Glossamia aprion, mouth almigty. Specimen paratype BMNH 1853.1.4.11

Cyprinus carpio, koi carp
This large omnivorous freshwater fish can be found the world over

Phyllopteryx taeniolatus, weedy seadragon
Plate 38 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This amazingly camouflaged fish is endemic to the south Australian coast from central New South Wales to south-western Western Australia

Favonigobius sp. goby
Plate 32A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Study detail of head, body and tail

Fossilised Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanth
Fossilised specimen of the coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) found in Upper Jurassic, Lithographic Limestone, Bavaria

Brachaluteres jacksonianus, southern pygmy leatherjacket
Plate 28 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This is a small compressed fish with no pelvic fins and a prominent dorsal spine

Odax acroptilus, rainbow cale
Plate 35 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. This medium-sized, weed-dwelling marine fish can be found along the coastline of the south-west Pacific

Thursius pholidotus, fossil fish
This shows a Devonian fish originating from the Old Red Sandstone near Thurso, Scotland

Latimeria chalumnae, coelacanth
A coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae) specimen caught in the Indian Ocean in the 1960s

Lates gracilis, bony fish
Specimen of an Eocene bony fish (lates gracilis)

Periophthalmus sp. mudskipper
Plate 32 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Gobies are common in shallow marine, brackish and estuarine waters, they have a distinct pelvic sucker used to cling to rocks and corals

Pursuit of Flying Fish by Dolphins & Birds
A line drawing from The Ocean by P. H. Gosse 1846 Page 183 illustrating a pursuit of flying fish by dolphins and birds

Deglutition in Chauliodus
Illustration of main movements of the anterior part of the body and the head of Chauliodus when it catches and swallows large prey

Priacanthus tayenus, purple-spotted bigeye
Plate 133 from the John Reeves Collection. John Reeves, a 19th Century Tea Inspector, travelled to Canton, China in order to develop a large collection of Chinese natural history drawings

Historical specimens from left to right
Specimen jars containing a hawkfish from the first Endeavour voyage, two female swimming crabs collected on the Investigator voyage and Eleginops maclovinus, collected during the Beagle voyage

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