EditorialEuropean or common sturgeon, Acipenser sturio. Critically endangered. Handcoloured copperplate drawn and engraved by Edward Donovan from his Natural History of British Fishes, Donovan and F.C. and J. Rivington, London, 1802-1808.
EditorialLe Sterlet, A sterlet on land (Acipenser ruthenus, sturgeon fish), in the background fishing nets, Signed: J. B. le Prince (del.), J. B. Tilliard (sculp.), Copper engraving, no. XI, after p. 200 (vol. 1), Le Prince, Jean-Baptiste ; Tilliard, Jean-Bapti...
EditorialSea sturgeon, Acipenser sturio 27, and underside 28. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the German...
EditorialSterlet sturgeon, Acipenser ruthenus 29, and underside 30. Handcolored copperplate engraving from Gottlieb Tobias Wilhelm's Encyclopedia of Natural History: Fish, Augsburg, 1804. Wilhelm (1758-1811) was a Bavarian clergyman and naturalist known as the ...
EditorialEuropean sea sturgeon, Acipenser sturio, critically endangered, and skate, Dipturus batis (Raia gaimardi). Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (Univers...
EditorialEuropean sea sturgeon, Acipenser sturio (critically endangered), and sterlet, Acipenser ruthenus (vulnerable). Handcoloured lithograph from Carl Hoffmann's Book of the World, Stuttgart, 1857.