Swordfish, Xiphias gladius 1,2, Mediterranean spearfish, Tetrapturus belone 3, and Atlantic sailfish, Istiophorus albicans 4. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville and Edouard Travies from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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