Osteichthyes Collection (page 7)

Deglutition in Chauliodus
Illustration of main movements of the anterior part of the body and the head of Chauliodus when it catches and swallows large prey

Priacanthus tayenus, purple-spotted bigeye
Plate 133 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

Mene maculata, moonfish
Specimen jar containing the curiously shaped moonfish (Mene maculata). This schooling, deep-water, marine fish is found throughout the Indo-Pacific region

Pomacanthus imperator, emperor angel fish

Copepod parasite
Specimen jar containing copepod parasites, which live on the body surface of salmon and in large numbers can cause damage to the fish. Specimens held at the Natural History Museum, London

Pagrus auratus, red snapper
Drawing no 64 by George Raper, 1789

Cheilopogon sp. flyingfish

Holocanthus ciliaris, queen angelfish

Solea lunata, sole
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

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

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

Balistes vetula, queen trigggerfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Stenotomus chrysops, scup
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Perca sp. croker & Holocentrus sp. squirrelfish
Illustration from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol 2 by Mark Catesby (1683-1749)

Margate fish (top) & sea sparrow-hawk (bottom)

Colourful illustration of four fish and an eel
Folio 8 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Scarus coeruleus, blue parrotfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Pseudolabrus sp. wrasse
Watercolour 375 by Thomas Watling entitled Karra gnorra, from the Watling Collection

Lepomis macrochirus, bluegill
Drawing 7 (Ewan 34) from the Botanical and zoological drawings (1756-1788) by William Bartram

Callionymus lyra, dragonet
Plate 78 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

Antennarius pictus, painted frogfish
Watercolour 382 by the Port Jackson Painter, from the Watling Collection

Fish and eel design
Drawing by Alfred Waterhouse for the ornamentation of the Natural History Museum, London, 1875-1876. Waterhouse designed the museum in the 1860s, and it first opened its doors on Easter Monday 1881

Sparisoma viride, stoplight parrotfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Colourful illustration of two fish and a stomatopod
Plate 28 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Colourful illustration of Makaira nigricans, blue marlin and

Scorpis sp. sweep
Watercolour 378 by the Port Jackson Painter, entitled Mannadaang, from the Watling Collection

Chaetodon ephippium, Chaetodon ocellatus
Plate 29 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Caesio lunaris, lunar fusilier
Plate 34 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

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

Colourful illustration of three fish and a seahorse
Folio 11 from Louis Renards Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 1, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour

Coris picta, comb wrasse
Watercolour 374 by Thomas Watling, from the Watling Collection

Scolopsis monogramma, rainbow monocle-bream
Plate 26 by Louis-Isidore Duperrey from his Voyage de la Coquille 1822-1825, Zoologie Atlas, 1826

Acipenser sturio, common sturgeon
Plate 96 by William MacGillivray from his Watercolour drawings of British Animals, 1831-1841

Sebastes sp. rockfish
Hand coloured etching from The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama islands (1731) Vol. 2 by Mark Catesby

Microcanthus strigatus, convict fish
Watercolour 380 by Thomas Watling, entitled Dea ne ang, from the Watling Collection

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

Eigenmannia sp. electric fish
Plate 144, pencil drawing by Alfred Russel Wallace from his Fishes of The Rio Negro, number 108

Lophiodes naresi, monkfish
Specimen jars containing monkfish (Lophiodes naresi), held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

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

Pycnodus zeaformis Longbottom, fish tooth plate
Corn-on-the-cob fish tooth plate from a paratype specimen dating from the Lower or Middle Eocene phosphates; Tamagu?lelt, Gao region, Mali

Gobiesox poecilophthalmos, clingfish
Clingfish (Gobiesox poecilophthalmos) specimens brought back by Charles Darwin on his voyage on HMS Beagle

Plate 16d from Specimens of British minerals? vol. 2 (1802) b
Plate 35A from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Study detail of the head and mouth of the medium-sized, weed-dwelling, marine fish found along the coasts of the south-west Pacific

Salmon of the settlers

Cheilodactylus carponemus
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

Flathead fish illustration
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

The common whiting
One of 67 original water colour drawings of Mammals, Reptiles and Fish found at King Georges Sound, Western Australia, and in its neighbourhood; accompanied by manuscript notes by Neill, Robert

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