Flyingfish Collection

Bandwing flyingfish, Cheilopogon exsiliens (Exocetus exiliens). Handcoloured lithograph from Georg Friedrich Treitschkes Gallery of Natural History, Naturhistorischer Bildersaal des Thierreiches

African sailfin flyingfish, Parexocoetus mento (Middle-finned flying fish, Exocoetus mesogaster). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Tropical two-wing flyingfish or common flying fish, Exocoetus volitans. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C

Flyingfish varieties
Flying gurnard, Dactylopterus volitans 1, bandwing flyingfish, Cheilopogon exsiliens 2, tropical two-wing flyingfish, Exocoetus volitans 3, and African sailfin flyingfish, Parexocoetus mento 4

Tropical two-wing flyingfish, Exocoetus volitans.. Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw

Exocoetus volitans, tropical two-winged flyingfish
Ff. 240. Watercolour painting by George Forster made during Captain James Cooks second voyage to explore the southern continent (1772-75)

Cypselurus poecilopterus, yellow-wing flyingfish
Ff. 109 Vol 2. Watercolour painting by Sydney Parkinson made during Captain James Cooks first voyage to explore the southern continent 1768-1771

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

Cheilopogon sp. flyingfish

Oliver Crimmen with fish specimen
Photograph of Oliver Crimmen, a curator at the Natural History Museum, London. The specimen featured is a Cypselurus bahiensis, four winged flying fish from the North Atlantic

Cypselurus californicus, four-winged flyingfish
Specimen jar containing a four-winged flyingfish (Cypselurus californicus), held in the Darwin Centre at The Natural History Museum, London

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