Flying gurnard and African armoured searobin
Flying gurnard, Dactylopterus volitans, Dactyloptere pirabebe, and African armoured searobin, Peristedion malarmat, Peristedion cataphractum. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's "Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles" 1816-1830. The volumes on fish and reptiles were edited by Hippolyte Cloquet, natural historian and doctor of medicine. Illustration by Pretre, engraved by Talbeau, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780~1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History.
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