Flying Gurnard Gallery

Oriental flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis)

Oriental flying gurnard (Dactyloptena orientalis), seen typically on sand flats adjacent to deep water where it crawls slowly on substrate using ventral fins. Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea

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Red gurnard Chelidonichthys lucerna flying fish

Red gurnard (Chelidonichthys lucerna) and flying fish (Exocoetidae), 1. 2. Swaluwe / 1. Milvus 2. hyrundo. / 1. Milan de mer 2. hirondelle de Mer (title on object), Red Gurnard and a flying fish. Numbered top right: 10. With the Latin names. Part of the sixth album with drawings of fish, shells and insects. Sixth of twelve albums with drawings of animals, birds and plants known around 1600, commissioned by Emperor Rudolf II. With explanations in Dutch, Latin and French, bony fishes (with NAME), Anselmus Boetius de Boodt, 1596 - 1610, paper, pencil, chalk, watercolor (paint), deck paint, ink, pen, h 161 mm ? w 271 mm

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