Chondrichthyes Collection (page 2)

Sharks head and teeth
Page 333 from Metallotheca by Michele Mercati (1717). Sixteenth century drawing

LS Plate 185 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

Poroderma africanum
Ff. 249. Pencil sketch by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

LS Plate 180 from the John Reeves Collection

Trygonorhina fasciata, southern fiddler ray
Ff. 47. Pencil sketch by Herman Dietrich Sporing made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

Sphyrna zygaena, hammerhead shark
Plate 145 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

Pristiophorus cirratus, long nose sawshark
Watercolour 371 by Thomas Watling entitled Givee be dung or gurooin, from the Watling Collection

Eleginops maclovinus, rock cod
Rock cod (Eleginops maclovinus) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Tonguestone (sharks tooth)
A sharks tooth from the species Oxyrhina. Specimen originates from the Globigerina Limestone, Miocene period, NW Malta

Raja marginata, skate egg case
Specimen jar containing the egg case of a skate (Raja marginata), popularly known as a mermaids purse. Specimen held at the Natural History Museum, London

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

Lamna nasus, porbeagle shark
Specimen of a porbeagle sharks head on the dissection table outside the Tank Room of the Darwin Centre, at the Natural History Museum, London

Various specimens
Specimen jars containing various sea and land creatures

Colourful illustration of Makaira nigricans, blue marlin and

Raja naevus, cuckoo ray
Plate 67 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

Gallus sonneratii, grey junglefowl, G. gallus bankiva, red j
Plate 69, lithograph by K.I. Brodtmann from Heinrich Rudolf Schinzs Naturgeschichte und Abbildungen der V� -Gattungen, (1831-1833)

Colourful illustration of a fish and a ray
Plate 43 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Isurus oxyrinchus, shortfin mako shark
Specimen jar containing the head of a shortfin mako shark (Isurus oxyrinchus), held at the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum. London

Mustelus mustelus, smoothhound shark
A Scanning Electron Microscope image of smoothhound shark skin. The skin is covered with tiny teeth called dermal denticles

Isurus oxyrinchus, mako shark
Scanning Electron Microscope image of mako shark skin

Heliobatis radians, fossil stingray
Specimen of the fossil stingray (Heliobatis radians) originating from the Eocene rocks of Wyoming, U.S.A. This specimen is around forty-five million years old

Scyliorhinus canicula, common dogfish
Specimen of the cartilaginous skeleton of a dogfish contained in a specimen jar

Study of a ray
Page 450 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Study of shark
Page 397 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

Anatomical study of a ray
Page 451 by Ulisse Aldrovandi from his De Piscubis et de Cetis, 1638

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