Red gurnard, Chelidonichthys cuculus, whiting, Merlangius merlangus, and critically endangered common skate or blue skate, Dipturus batis. Near a basket on the shore, sailboat in the background. Le trigle grondin, le merlan, le raie batis. Handcoloured steel engraving by Charles Beyer and Alexandre Manceau after an illustration by Edouard Travies from Bernard Germain de Lacepede’s Histoire Naturelle de Lacepede, comprenant les cetaces, les quadrupedes ovipares, les serpents et les poissons, Furne et Cie, Paris, 1847.

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