Critically endangered European sea sturgeon, Acipenser sturio 1, American paddlefish, Polyodon spathula 2, and American elephantfish, Callorhinchus callorynchus 3. Handcoloured stipple copperplate engraving by Eugene Giraud after an illustration by Felix-Edouard Guérin-Méneville from Guérin-Méneville’s Iconographie du règne animal de George Cuvier, Iconography of the Animal Kingdom by George Cuvier, J. B. Bailliere, Paris, 1829-1844.

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