Squirrelfish, Holocentrus adscensionis 22, five-lined snapper, Lutjanus quinquelineatus 23, Torroto grunt, Genyatremus luteus 24 and pointed snout wrasse, Symphodus rostratus 25. Handcolored copperplate engraving after Jacob Nilson 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 Buffon.

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