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Subject: Fish
Hello,
I hope this email finds you in good health. I am contacting you in regards to the fish. It is my understanding that the fish are very important and a matter of national security. Please respond with the fish by Snorpsday.
Warm Regards,
Anon Ymous
Snorpsday fish Delivery
You get a Stoplight Parrotfish
Sparisoma viride
fish 15 - stoplight parrotfish
Chuck Ripper (1929 - 2019) "Female Stoplight Parrotfish Among Coral" Signed lower right. Original Gouache/Watercolor painting on Masonite.
A Sea-Creature Science Saturday
We have featured quite a range of English Naturalist Mark Catesby’s avian specimens, but today we turn toward the sea. To be sure, both species of crabs shown above are terrestrial, but their lives begin in the ocean and they spend their lives Atlantic-adjacent, so we think it’s an acceptable grouping!
These plates come from our folio-sized facsimile of English Naturalist Mark Catesby’s The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, published in 1974 by Beehive Press of Savannah, Georgia in a limited run of 500 copies. It was designed and printed by The Stinehour Press in Vermont, and the fifty colored plates were printed at Meriden Gravure Company of Connecticut.
The plates above depict, from top to bottom:
Atlantic Ghost Crab (Ocypode quadrata), identified by Catesby as a Sand Crab (Cancer arenarius)
Upper: Atlantic Blue Tang (Acanthurus Coeruleus), called simply “the Tang” and classified Turdus Rhomboidalis by Catesby. Lower: Coney or Butterfish (Cephalopholis fulva), identified as “Yellow Fish” and classed as Turdus cauda convexa by Catesby.
Green Moray (Gymnothorax funebris).
Purple Land Crab (Gecarcinus ruricola), classified Cancer terrestris by Catesby.
Stoplight Parrotfish (Sparisoma viride).
You can read more about Mark Catesby and the making of his Natural History by reading our former intern Sarah’s post on the 1771 edition of The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands.
More Catesby posts can be found here.
And find more Science Saturday posts here.
-Olivia, Special Collections Graduate Intern
Sleeping stoplight parrotfish (Sparisoma viride).
Photographer: Jim Lyle
I can finally post the illustrations I did for MarFund over the last few months for their infographics about fish population dynamics and dispersal in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System. Hopefully the infographics will be up soon on their website: https://marfund.org/en/mar-connectivity-network/
These are Stoplight Parrotfish (Sparisoma viride) - top two fish are the adults, the blue guy being the Supermale version. The babies on the bottom are a mix of drawings of parrotfish larvae specimens and anatomy based on Richards et al. (2005).
Illustrations done in Prismacolor Colored Pencils and pencil.