Thornback Collection

Skate, stingray and thornback ray
Skate, Dipturus batis 8, 9, stingray, Dasyatis pastinaca 10, and thornback ray, Raja clavata 11. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelms Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish

Trunkfish and longhorn cowfish
Smooth trunkfish, Rhinesomus triqueter 39, longhorn cowfish, Lactoria cornuta 40, and thornback trunkfish, Tetrosomus gibbosus 41

Common stingray, thornback ray, and clubnose guitarfish
Common stingray, Dasyatis pastinaca, thornback ray, Raja clavata, and clubnose guitarfish, Glaucostegus thouin. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Dequevauviller after an illustration by

Thornback ray, torpedo, and eagle ray
Thornback ray, Raja clavata (Raia rubus), torpedo, Torpedo torpedo, and eagle ray, Myliobatis aquila. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Miss Coignet after an illustration by Jean-Gabriel Pretre

Thornback ray, Raja clavata (near threatened). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmanns Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857

Thornback ray, cownose ray and giant devil ray
Thornback ray, Raja clavata 1, Lusitanian cownose ray, Rhinoptera marginata 2, and giant devil ray, Mobula mobular 3, endangered. Raies: Raja bouclee, Raja mourine, Raja cephaloptera

Thornback skate, Raja clavata. Near threatened. Rough ray, Raja rubus. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C

Puffer, globe and sunfish
Birdbeak burrfish, Cyclichthys orbicularis 1, sunfish, Mola mola 2, thornback trunkfish, Tetrosomus gibbosus 3, checkered puffer, Sphoeroides testudineus 4, and Fahaka pufferfish or globe fish

Skates and rays
Skate, Dipturus batis 1, 2, long-nosed skate, Dipturus oxyrinchus 3, 4, eagle ray, Myliobatis aquila 5, stingray, Dasyatis pastinaca 6, thornback ray, Raja clavata 7, 8

Raia clavata, or Thornback Ray
Raia clavata, also known as Thornback Ray and Thornback Skate. Date: 1862

Shadow drawing. C. H. Bennett, Porcupine
The fretful porcupine (H. Riley Thornback Esq.) Illustration from a series of shadow portraits of fictional characters by Charles H Bennett entitled Shadow and Substance, 1860

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