Brown meagre, Sciaena umbra 1, flier, Centrarchus macropterus 2, and black-saddled coral grouper, Plectropomus laevis, juvenile 3. Le labre chapelet, Sciaena nigra, le labre macroptere, Labrus macropterus, le labre lisse, Labrus laevis. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Frédéric Cazenave and others 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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