Blueband goby and shark sucker
Blueband goby, Gobiomore taiboa, Valenciennea strigata, and shark sucker, sucking fish, remora, Echeneide, Remora remora. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles" 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by Pretre, engraved by Prudhon, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History.
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