| Antique Print Fish Fishing Art - Natural History Print A beautiful illustration from a British Victorian natural history book. The quality of the illustrations is superb, some of the best of the period. A wonderful engraving of a British Lump Sucker (Cyclopterus lumpus) and Viviparous Blenny.
'In the month of March the colours of the lump-fish are in the highest perfection, combining various shades of blue, purple, and rich orange. These voracious fishes feed chiefly on the fry of other species.
The Blennies are a genus remarkable for producing living young. The fry, which at birth are perfectly transparent, and form beautiful objects for the microscope, are so fully developed as to be able at once to swim freely on leaving the body of the female parent. Before their birth the female becomes so distended, that at the slightest pressure the young are extruded; these frequently being from two to three hundred in number, and always making their appearance in the world head first.' |
