Clupeidae Collection

Museum scientists holding Oarfish specimen
Regalecus glesne. From left to right: Graham Pellow, Colin McCarthy, Prof. Philip Rainbow, Dr. Roger Lincoln, Ollie Crimmen and Sir Neil Chalmers

Clupea harengus, or Atlantic Herring, an abundant species of the Clupeidae family. Date: 1865

Hemibrycon taeniurus, Mountain spring sardine

Allis Shad and Twaite Shad
Allis Shad (Alosa alosa) and Twaite Shad (Alosa fallax). Date: 1879

Alosa fallax, or Twait Shad
Alosa alosa, or Allis Shad, of the Clupeidae family, also known as Scadina, Alewife and Damin Herring. Date: 1865

Atherina presbyter and Atherina boyeri
Atherina presbyter, also known as Silverside, Smelt and Sand Smelt, and the larger Atherina boyeri, also known as Big-Scale Sand Smelt and Boiers Atherine. Date: 1864

Herring illustration

Clupea finta, twaite shad
Page 68 by W Houghton from his British Freshwater Fishes, 1879

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

Sardina pilchardus, European pilchard
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

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

Larus argentatus, herring gull
Plate 291 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

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