Chinese catfish species 1, African sharptooth catfish, Clarias gariepinus 2, and walking catfish, Clarias batrachus 3. Le silure chinois, Silurus sinensis, le macropteronote charmuth, Macropteronotus charmuth, le macropteronote brun, Heterobranchus batrachus. Handcoloured stipple engraving by Frédéric Cazenave and others 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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