Four-eyed sleeper, Bostrychus sinensis 1, small snakehead, Channa asiatica 2, and live sharksucker or slender sharksucker, Echeneis naucrates 3. Le bostriche chinois, le bostriche oeille, Bostrychoides oculatus, l'echeneis remora. Handcoloured stipple engraving from le Comte de la Cépède’s Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède, comprenant l’histoire naturelle des poissons, Paris, circa 1850. The uncredited illustrations were copied from originals by Jacques de Seve, Marcus Bloch, Robert Benard, Jean-Gabriel Pretre, etc.

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