Osteichthyes Collection (page 5)

Plate 35 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826. Fish labelled Girelle pao and Girelle a demi paree

Enoplosus armatus, old wife
Watercolour 378 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Goe in mag gee, from the Watling Collection

Paraplesiops bleekeri, eastern blue devil
Watercolour 376 by Thomas Watling entitled Thorral Ga ne ra, from the Watling Collection

Thyrsites atun, barracuda
Watercolour 372 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Wel-gnoo-roo, from the Watling Collection

Synaphobranchus kaupi, arrowtooth eel
Specimen jar containing many arrowtooth eels (Synaphobranchus kaupi), held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Syngnathus crinitus, banded pipefish
Specimen jar containing a banded pipefish (Syngnathus crinitus) collected by Charles Darwin in Patagonia during the voyage of the Beagle

Syngnathus crinitus, insular pipefish
Insular pipefish (Syngnathus crinitus) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Lepidotes mantelli Agassiz, lepidotes tooth plate

Pseudoscarus lepidus, parrot fish
Parrot fish (Pseudoscarus lepidus) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Syngnathus acicularis, deep-bodied pipefish

Black bass
Illustration by Sir William Coles Paget Medlycott (1831-1887)

Scorpaena histrio, player scorpionfish
Player scorpion (Scorpaena histrio) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Poeciliidae sp. Guppy
Illustration of Guppy fish by Guppy, Plantagenet Lechmere 1903

Acipenser sp. sturgeon
An eight foot long sturgeon, caught off the coast of Wales, June 2004. It was once the subject of a police investigation, but was eventually donated to the Natural History Museum, London

Toad Stones or fish teeth

Prionotus miles, Galapagos gurnard
Fish collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Selar crumenophthalmus, bigeye scad
Fish labelled Caranx torvus collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Calamus taurinus, Galapagos porgy
Fish labelled Chrysophrys taurina collected by Charles Darwin in the Galapagos Islands. From his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

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

Hydrocynus sp. tigerfish
Specimen skull of a tigerfish (Hydrocynus sp.). Tigerfish are found in warm rivers and lakes throughout Africa, they are fierce and voracious feeding on whatever is most abundant

Hoplostethus atlanticus, orange roughy
Photograph of three orange roughy (Hoplostethus atlanticus). These handsome and widespread, deep-living fish are already suffering from overfishing in some places

Regalecus glesne, oarfish
Specimen of an oarfish (Realecus glesne). This species of fish is possibly the longest in the world. Photographed by Harry Taylor

Plate from Charles Darwins Zoology of the Voyage of the Bea
Fish from South American and Tahitian waters including Agonopsis chiloens, found by Charles Darwin in the Chiloe archipelago, off the west coast of South America

Sphoeroides angusticeps, narrow headed puffer
Fish from the Galapagos Islands collected by Charles Darwin from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Catfish
Drawing no 114 by Alfred Russel Wallace

Coryphaenoides sp. rattail
A specimen jar containing rattail fish (Coryphaenoides sp.) collected south of Australia, 1874 on The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger (1872-1876)

Anarhichas lupus, Atlantic catfish
A specimen of the Atlantic catfish (Anarhichas lupus). Technically a wolffish and not a catfish this deep-sea, bottom-dwelling fish can be found in temperate

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

Ophioblennius atlanticus
Fish found by Charles Darwin in the Cape Verde Islands from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

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

Gobiesox marmoratus
Fish collected by Charles Darwin in South American and Tahitian waters from his Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle

Arothron meleagris, puffer fish
Pencil drawing with some colour. Sydney Parkinson wrote the whole of this Fish fins & all is a purple black spotted with milk colour d spots/the teeth dirty white. (Bloch & Schneider, 1801)

Coryphaenoides sp. rattails
Four specimens of rattails on sand

Coccoderma suevicum, fossil coelacanth
This fossil coelacanth originates from the Lithographic Limestone, Bavaria and is 150 million years old. Prepared by acid transfer. Polygonal block is glass fibre not original rock

Pholiodophorus bechei, fossil fish
A bony fish specimen preserved in the Jurassic rocks near Lyme Regis, Dorset

The Emperors Pike
Late 17th or early 18th century oil painting by an unknown artist of the pike which is reputed to have lived in a pool in Lautern for 267 years

Lycoptera, bony fish fossil
Fossil of a bony fish found in jurassic China, 206-142 million years ago

Epinephelus quoyanus, longfin grouper
Epinephelus quoyanu, longfin grouper. Holotype of Serranus gilbertii Richardson, BMNH 1843.6.15.59, collected at Black Point, Port Essington

Apogon aprion, mouth almighty
Type specimens of Apogon aprion, mouth almighty. Holotype BMNH 1972.6.8.1

Chelmon marginalis, margined coralfish. Holotype BMNH 1843.6.15.48, from Coral Bay, Port Essington (dried specimen)

Glossamia aprion, mouth almighty
Glossamia aprion, mouth almigty. Specimen paratype BMNH 1853.1.4.11

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