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Various fish specimens
Ichthyological study of various species of fish, including:
1. A stone loach, Barbatula barbatula , here styled Cobitis barbatula Fundulus Balt and under the common name ‘a Loche’.
2. A bleak, possibly a common bleak, Alburnus alburnus, here styled Alburnus lacustris.
3. A bearded loach, Cobitis bartula, here styled Cobitis barbatula aculeata.
4. An unknown gudgeon species here styled Gobius fluviatilis.
5., 7. Two minnow species here styled Phoxinus squamosus and Phoxinus vulgaris respectively.
6. An unknown species here styled Taenia cornuta.
Printed inscription: ‘1. Cobitis barbatula Fundulus Balt. A Loche/ 2. Alburnus lacustris Gesner Baltn./ 3. Cobitis barbatula aculeata Baltn./ 4. Gobius fluviatilis Baltn./ 5. Phoxinus squamosus Bambele Baltn/ 6. Taenia cornuta Schonfeldij/ 7. Phoxinus vulgaris a Pink/ Tab. Q. 8’ with further handwritten annotation ‘[1]/ Grundell/ [7] A minim or minow/ 3. An Taenia cornuta Schonfeldy Daelithus Stonebiter/ 4. A Gudgeon’. Numbered ‘121’ in the top right-hand corner.
Plate Q:8 from De historia piscium libri quatuor, by Francis Willughby and John Ray (Oxford, 1686).
Francis Willughby (1635-1672), British naturalist, was an Original Fellow of the Royal Society.
John Ray (1627-1705), British naturalist, was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1667.
- Image reference: RS-20707
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