Great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias, vulnerable 1, smooth hammerhead, Sphyrna zygaena, vulnerable 2, common sawfish, Pristis pristis, critically endangered 3, and swordfish, Xiphias gladius, 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving after Johann Christian Wilhelm Waitz from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792.

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