Red scorpion fish, Scorpaena scrofa 1, rat fish, Chimaera monstrosa 2, scrawled cowfish, Acanthostracion quadricornis 3, and broadbarred firefish, Pterois antennata 4. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuch's Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1798.

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