Aculeatus Collection

European peacock butterfly, Aglais io. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Matted filefish, queen triggerfish and white
Matted filefish, Acreichthys tomentosus 36, queen triggerfish, Balistes vetula 37, and white-banded triggerfish, Rhinecanthus aculeatus 38

Western Atlantic seabream, porkfish and sticklebacks
Western Atlantic seabream, Archosargus rhomboidalis 40, Porkfish, Anisotremus virginicus 41, three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus 42, fifteen-spined stickleback, Spinachia spinachia 43

Snake blenny, lesser spiny eel and wolf fish
Snake blenny, Ophidion barbatum 73, lesser spiny eel, Macrognathus aculeatus 74, wolf fish, Anarhichas lupus 75, and its jaw and teeth 76, 77

Sticklebacks and their nests
Male and female sticklebacks, Gasterosteus aculeatus, building a nest 1, 2, and ninespine stickleback, Pungitius pungitius, enlarging the nest openings 3

Brachionus angularis rotifer
Brachionus angularis species of planktonic rotifer (Aculeated brachionus, Brachionus aculeatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Butcher s-broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Handcoloured woodblock print by Wolfgang Meyerpick after an illustration by Giorgio Liberale from Pietro Andrea Mattiolis Discorsi di P.A

Globe artichoke, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus, and wild thistle, Carduus sylvestris. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Milk thistle, Silybum marianum, and globe artichoke, Cynara cardunculus var. scolymus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal

Common butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Handcoloured woodblock engraving of a botanical illustration from Adam Lonicers Krauterbuch, or Herbal, Frankfurt, 1557

Echidna or spiny anteater, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Echidna setosa). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Col

Echidna, Tachyglossus aculeatus
Echidna or spiny anteater, Tachyglossus aculeatus (Echidna setosa). Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from William Jardines Naturalists Library

Butchers broom, Ruscus aculeatus. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after an illustration by Richard Duppa from his The Classes and Orders of the Linnaean System of Botany, Longman, Hurst, London

Three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J

Curtis British Entomology Plate 489
Diptera: Opetia lonchopteroides = Opetia nigra (Lonchoptera-like Opetia) [Plant: Ruscus aculeatus (Butcher?s Broom)] Date: 1824-39

Humuhumu nukunuku apua a, Fishes of Hawaii
Humuhumu nukunuku apua a, (Balistapus aculeatus) Fishes of Hawaii Date: 1930s

Six types of Stickleback: Rough-Tailed or Three-Spined (Gasterosteus aculeatus, also known as Barnstickle, Banstickle, Sharplin and Pricklefish), Half-Armed (Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus)

Three-Spined Stickleback and Tinker
Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus, above), also known as Banstickle, Minnis, Sharpling and Pricklefish, and Tinker (Gasterosteus pungitius, below)

Fossils of extinct sea snails or the Silurian to Permian eras.. Handcolored lithograph from Dr. F.A. Schmidts Petrefactenbuch, published in Stuttgart, Germany, 1855 by Verlag von Krais & Hoffmann

Sweet broom or Jews myrtle, Ruscus aculeatus.. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by French botanist Jean Baptiste Francois Pierre Bulliard from Herbier de la France, Paris, 1780

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