Riverine clingfish or smooth clingfish, Gobiesox cephalus 1, narrow-barred Spanish mackerel, Scomberomorus commerson 2, and Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus 3. Le gobiesoce testar, le scombre commerson, Scomber commerson, le scombre thon, Scomber thynnus. 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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