Scientific Illustration

A common atlantic flying fish (Exocoetus volitans)

Mesoprion uninotatus (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 9 May 1865) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.

Nesting sticklebacks by BioDivLibrary on Flickr.

Dictionnaire universel d’histoire naturelle :.
Paris :Chez les editeurs MM. Renard, Martinet et cie, rue et Hotel Mignon, 2 (quartier de l’École-de-Médecine) ; et chez Langlois et Leclercq, rue de la Harpe, 81 ; Victor Masson, Place de l’Ecole-de-Médecin1847-1849.
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wapiti3:

Picture and description of fish (178) on Flickr.

Author: Heppe, Johann Christoph
Subject: Fishe
Publisher: Samuel Winterschmidt
Year: 1787

Language: German

Digitizing sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Book contributor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Collection: biodiversity; Harvard_University; americana

Exocoetus volitans - Flying fish

Flying fish - Exocoetus volitans

Farlowella sp. (Teffe, Brazil, 5 and 8 October 1865) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.

biologicalmarginalia:

This Early Miocene sunfish, Austromola angerhoferi, is estimated to have a total length of 3.2 meters (10’6”), making it the largest known Cenozoic teleost fossil. Mola mola can get somewhat larger — 3.33 m — although considering Austromola is know from only three specimens (the others being 1.5–1.7 and 2.4 m), I’d imagine it was considerably larger on average. Austromola is essentially “modern” in shape, although with some minor plesiomorphic traits (more vertebrae, hexagonal scales).

Gregorova, R. et al. (2009) A giant Early Miocene sunfish from the North Alpine Foreland Basin (Austria) and its implication for molid phylogeny. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 29(2) 359–371.

Mesonauta festivus (Lago Jose Assu, Brazil, 29 August 1865; 3 fish) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.

Mesonauta festivus (Teffe, Brazil, 27 September 1865; 2 fish) by The Ernst Mayr Library on Flickr.