Deep-water red snapper, Etelis carbunculus 1, and barred soapfish, Diploprion bifasciatum 2. Fish heads of Etilis carbunculus, Huro nigricans, Niphon spinosus, Enoplosus armatus. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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