Crescent grunter, Terapon jarbua 1, crowned squirrelfish, Sargocentron diadema 2, and blacktip grouper, Epinephelus fasciatus 3. L'holocentre jarbua, Holocentrus jarbua, l'holocentre diademe, Holocentrus diadema, l'holocentre rosmare, Serranus marginalis. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Frédéric Cazenave and others 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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