Bandtail puffer fish, Sphoeroides spengleri 1, evileye puffer fish, Amblyrhynchotes honckenii 2, and ocean sunfish or common mola, Mola mola 3. Le Tétrodon plumier, Tetraodon plumieri, Le Tétrodon tigré, Tetraodon honckenii, Le Tétrodon lune, Orthagoriscus mola. 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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