Two-stick stingfish

Marine zoological study of the Two-stick stingfish Inimicus filamentosus (here styled Pelor filamentosum) a fish native to the Western Indian Ocean and Red Sea. Side view, with line details of the head and tail.

Plate 94 from the book Histoire naturelles des poisons…tome 1-21…by Georges Cuvier and Achille Valenciennes (Paris, F.G. Levrault, 1828-1849).

Inscribed below ‘PELOR filmenteux. PELOR filamentosum. n.’ and attributed ‘Werner del. Impe. de Langlois. Schmeltz sculp.’

Georges Cuvier (1773-1838), Baron Cuvier, French zoologist, was elected a Foreign Member of the Royal Society in 1806.

Achille Valenciennes (1794-1865), French zoologist.