A field guide
to fish.
For the familiar fish.
And the wonderfully unfamiliar.
An illustrated collection of freshwater and marine life. A little natural history, one species at a time.
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Esox luciusM. E. Bloch
Pl. XXXII · Public domain
A few to get
acquainted with.
European perch
LCPerca fluviatilis
Probably the first fish many European children ever catch, recognisable by its dark bars and spiny back.
Freshwater / Brackish
Whale shark
ENRhincodon typus
The largest living fish, and it eats plankton.
Marine
West Indian Ocean coelacanth
CRLatimeria chalumnae
Known only from fossils and assumed extinct since the Cretaceous, until a live one was landed in South Africa in 1938.
MarineFind your waters.
Some fish belong to more than one world.
Our habitat categories overlap, too.
Rivers & lakes
From gravel streams to the quiet of a reed bed.
10 species↗02Seas & oceans
Life on the reef, along the coast and out in the blue.
14 species↗03Between the two
Estuaries and bays, where fresh water meets the sea.
13 species↗Old plates.
New perspectives.
Most of these fish were drawn more than two centuries ago. Bloch’s hand-coloured engravings sit alongside modern species notes — a reminder that looking closely never gets old.
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