Estuarine stonefish, Synanceia horrida 1,3, and reef stonefish, Synanceia verrucosa 2. Le scorpene horrible, Scorpaena horrida, le scorpene double filament, Scorpaena bicirrata, le scorpene rascasse, Scorpaena rascassa. 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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