Osteichthyes Collection (page 8)

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

Trachurus trachurus, common scad
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

Scorpaena panda
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

Flat nosed mullet
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

Katsuwonus pelamis, skipjack of the Settlers
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

Lutjanus campechanus, red snapper
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

Cheilodactylus gibbosus, crested morwong
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

Red mullet by Robert Neill
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

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

Common mullet of the Settlers
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

Heros autochthon. Catalogue number 1961_7_7_6

Fossilised Macracara prisca, cichlid
This well-preserved, fossil specimen originates from the Lower Tertiary rocks of Brazil, some 65 million years ago

Cichlid from the family of perch-like fishes native to rivers and lakes in central and south America, Africa and Madagascar and parts of Asia

Thalassoma lunare, moon wrasse
Plate 107A from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57

Melanocoetus johnsoni, deep sea angler
Specimen of the deep sea angler (Melanocoetus johnsoni), a small predatory fish which lives in the extreme depths of the ocean

Coryphaenoides armatus, abyssal grenadier
Photograph of specimen jars containing grenadier fish collected south of Australia, 1874 on the Challenger voyage (1872-1876)

Scarus ghobban, blue-barred parrotfish
Watercolour by Olivia Fanny Tonge, c. 1910

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

Amblypterus, palaeoniscid fish

Sphoeroides sp. pufferfish
Tableau 23 by Albertus Seba from his Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Palaeoniscus freislebeni, fossil fish
Palaeoniscus freislebeni a fossil fish from the Permian rocks near Midderidge, Durham

Coregonus vandesius, C. clupeoides, Thymallus vulgaris
Page 148 by W Houghton from his British Freshwater Fishes, 1879

Sea-horse
Page 234 from Curious Creatures in Zoology, 1890 by John Ashton

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

Anthias anthias, blunt headed holy fish
Specimen collected on Captain James Cooks first voyage, 1768-1771 and labelled Perca imperator

Lepidotes, fossil fish

Dapedium orbicularis, fossil fish
A well preseved example of an enamel-scaled fish from the Lower Lias, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England

Salmons. Engraving after a drawing by a F. Padr󮠅
Salmons. Engraving after a drawing by a F.Padr󮠅 ngraving

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