Spined Collection

A Selection of Fish
An assortment of fish: 1. sharp-nosed eel, 2. blunt-nosed eel, 3. burbot, 4. lamprey, 5. lampern, 6. chub, 7. perch, 8. roach, 9. bream, 10. rudd, 11. Prussian carp, 12. Crucian carp, 13. tench, 14

Different types of colorful sea urchins and their spines.. Handcolored engraving from Charles d Orbignys Dictionnaire Universel d Histoire Naturelle (Universal Dictionary of Natural History), 1849

Three-spined stickleback and Atlantic mackerel
Three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus 1, and Atlantic mackerel, Scomber scombrus 2. Gasterosteo o Spinarella piccola, Maccarello comune

European peacock butterfly, Aglais io. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dizionario delle Scienze Naturali, Dictionary of Natural Science, Florence, Italy, 1837

Exotic cockroaches and stink bugs
Banana cockroach, Panchlora nivea 1, Central American giant cockroach, Blaberus giganteus 2, Egyptian desert cockroach, Polyphaga aegyptiaca

Curtis British Entomology Plate 389
Hymenoptera: Agriotypus armatus (Spined Agriotypus) [Plant: Scutellaria galericulata (Common Skull-cap)] Date: 1824-39

Curtis British Entomology Plate 167
Coleoptera: Malachus bispinosus = Malachius marginellus Olivier (Spined Soft-beetle) [Plant: Adonis annua (Asonis autumnalis, Pheasant?s Eye)] Date: 1824-39

Spined Loach, Minnow, Loach and Common Bleak
Spined Loach (Cobitis taenia), Minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus), Loach (Barbatula barbatula) and Common Bleak (Alburnus alburnus). Date: 1879

Six types of Stickleback: Rough-Tailed or Three-Spined (Gasterosteus aculeatus, also known as Barnstickle, Banstickle, Sharplin and Pricklefish), Half-Armed (Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus)

Myoxocephalus scorpius, or Father-Lasher, also known as Shorthorn Sculpin, Short-Spined Sea Scorpion, Bull-Head and Bull-Rout. Date: 1863

Three-Spined Stickleback and Tinker
Three-Spined Stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus, above), also known as Banstickle, Minnis, Sharpling and Pricklefish, and Tinker (Gasterosteus pungitius, below)

Spinachia spinachia, or Fifteen-Spined Stickleback, also known as sea stickleback and sea adder. Date: 1862

Long-spined or pungent chaetodon, Enoplosus armatus.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Nest-Making Fish - 6
(polycentrus Schomburgkii) Veelsteckel (in Dutch : it means something like many- spined ) Date: 1954

Drawing of various fish
A colour drawing of various fish -- three spined stickleback, minnow, millers thumb, loach, and char

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