Cyprinidae Collection

Barbus barbus, or Common Barbel, also known as Barbus. Date: 1865

Gobio gobio, or Gudgeon, a freshwater fish. Date: 1865

Plate 130 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

Cyprinus hybiscoides, common carp
Part of LS Plate 166 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

Alburnus alburnus, or Common Bleak, a freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family. Date: 1865

Leuciscus leuciscus, or Common Dace, a freshwater or brackish water fish of the Cyprinidae family. Described here as Graining. Date: 1865

Blicca bjoerkna, or Silver Bream, also known as White Bream and Breamflat, a species of freshwater fish. Date: 1865

Leuciscus idus, or Ide, also known as Orfe, a freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family. Date: 1865

Leuciscus leuciscus, or Common Dace, a freshwater or brackish water fish of the Cyprinidae family. Date: 1865

Scardinius erythropthalmus, or Common Rudd, also known as Redeye and Finscale. Date: 1865

Carassius auratus auratus, or Goldfish, a freshwater fish of the Cyprinidae family. Date: 1865

Carassius gibelio, or Prussian Carp, also known as Silver Prussian Carp and Gibel Carp, a member of the Cyprinidae family. Date: 1865

Paedocypris progenetica (male)
This is one of the smallest known vertebrate, reaching only 7.9mm in length, discovered on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. Photographed by Dr. Ralf Britz

Paedocypris progenetica (female)
This is one of the smallest known vertebrate, reaching only 7.9mm in length, discovered on the Indonesian Island of Sumatra. Photographed by Dr. Ralf Britz

LS Plate 116 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

LS Plate 139 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

Plate 129 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

LS Plate 164 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

Carassius auratus, carassin
LS Plate 169 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

Cyprinus auratus, goldfish
Plate 121 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

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

Catfish
Drawing no 114 by Alfred Russel Wallace

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

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

Cheilopogon sp. flyingfish

Ictalurus punctatus, river catfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Upeneichthys lineatus, blue-lined goatfish
Watercolour 373 by Thomas Watling entitled barrang ang, from the Watling Collection

Colourful illustration of five fish, two lobsters and a crab
Plate 53 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

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

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

Carassius auratus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Page of drawings of goldfish made in Canton c. early 19th century under the supervision of John Reeves, who commissioned many such drawings

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