Critically endangered European eel, Anguilla anguilla 1, European conger, Conger conger 2, and lesser sand eel or sand lance, Ammodytes tobianus 3. La murene anguille, le congre, l'ammodyte appat. Handcoloured stipple engraving from le Comte de la Cépède’s Oeuvres du comte de Lacépède, comprenant l’histoire naturelle des poissons, Paris, circa 1850. The uncredited illustrations were copied from originals by Jacques de Seve, Marcus Bloch, Robert Benard, Jean-Gabriel Pretre, etc.

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