Herring Gallery

King of herrings, Regalecus glesne, and deal

King of herrings, Regalecus glesne, and deal fish, Trachipterus arcticus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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Atlantic thread herring, Opisthonema oglinum

Atlantic thread herring, Opisthonema oglinum, and European anchovy, Engraulis encrasicolus.. Handcolored copperplate stipple engraving from Jussieu's Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles 1816-1830. Illustration by J.G. Pretre, engraved by Massard, directed by Turpin, and published by F. G. Levrault. Jean Gabriel Pretre (1780-1845) was painter of natural history at Empress Josephine's zoo and later became artist to the Museum of Natural History

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School of Scaled herring or Scaled sardine (Harengula clupeola), entering from the

School of Scaled herring or Scaled sardine (Harengula clupeola), entering from the sea into the freshwater of the Laguna Yal Ku, Quintana Roo, Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico . Photographed for The Freshwater Project February 2014

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