Colourful illustration of Makaira nigricans, blue marlin and two rays
Plate 54 from Louis Renard's Poissons, Ecrevisses et Crabes, Vol 2, 1754. This was the earliest known work on fish to be produced in colour.
Size: 1840px × 2503px
Photo credit: © Natural History Museum, London / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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Keywords: actinopterygii, animal, atlantic, batoidea, bill, blue, bony, brown, chondrichthyes, colourful, drawing, elasmobranch, elasmobranchii, fin, finned, fish, fishes, french, gladius, illustration, istiophoridae, long, louis, makaira, marlin, nigricans, osteichthyes, perciform, perciformes, ray, ray-finned, renard, spotted, strange, streamer, sword, swordfish, tail, wing, xiphias, xiphiidae
