Sucker Collection

Seven squid and octopuses
Tableau 2 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

Comic postcard, Little boy and shopkeeper Date: 20th century

Shark sucker fish, Remora remora (Fork-tailed remora, Echeneis remora). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder

Two-spotted clingfish, Diplecogaster bimaculata bimaculata (Bimaculated sucker, Cyclopterus bimaculatus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn

Cornish sucker, Lepadogaster purpurea (Ocellated sucker, Cyclopterus ocellatus). Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes

Bait fisherman, Kent
A fisherman sucks up lug worm bait with a vacuum device on the beach at Dungeness, Kent, England. First published The Sunday Times Date: 1990

Ornithodoros parkeri, tick
Ventral views of male and female of this soft tick (Ornithodoros parkeri) from the family Argasidae

Honey Sucker from New South Wales, Australia
A Honey Sucker from New South Wales, Australia, perching on a branch. 1822

Broad-Finned, Tail-Spotted, and One-Spotted Goby
Yellow Clown Goby (Gobiodon okinawae), Little (possibly Shrimp) Goby (old name: Gobius minutus), and Two-Spotted Goby (Gobiusculus flavescens). Date: 1863

Cornish Sucker and Doubly-Spotted Sucker
Cornish Sucker (Lepadogaster lepadogaster), also known as Sucking Fish and Jura Sucker, and the Doubly-Spotted Sucker (Cyclopterus bimaculatus). Date: 1863

Montagus Sucker and Network Sucker
Montagus Sucker or Seasnail (Liparis montagui, male and female), and Network Sucker (old name: Liparis reticulatus, possibly Liparis liparis, or Common Seasnail). Date: 1863

Remora, or Suckerfish
Remora, also known as Suckerfish or Sucking Fish. Date: 1863

Blueband goby, Valenciennea strigata, and shark sucker, sucking fish, remora, Remora remora.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieus Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830

Halipegus hessleri, parasitic worm
A parasitic worm specimen measuring 3.3mm

Periophthalmus sp. mudskipper
Plate 32 from Zoological drawings by Ferdinand Bauer. Gobies are common in shallow marine, brackish and estuarine waters, they have a distinct pelvic sucker used to cling to rocks and corals

Loligo sp. squid
Specimen of a squid (Loligo sp.)

Watercolour 58 from the Watling Collection
Watercolour 58 by the Port Jackson Painter from Banks Manuscript 34, (c. 1790)

Squid specimen
Specimen jar containing squid, held in the Darwin Centre at the Natural History Museum, London

Amblyomma americanum, lone star tick
A pair of lone star ticks (Amblyomma americanum). Ticks are blood-sucking parasites which feed on the blood of their host

Octopus sp
Plate 126 from the Loten Collection, painting by Pieter Cornelius de Bevere, 1754-57

Squid illustration
Tableau 3 from Albertus Sebas Thesaurus, Vol 3, 1759

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