Fish Eggs & Larvae Drawings
Fish Eggs, Larvae, and Fry
These drawings were done the old-fashioned way, called stippling, at the New York Ocean Science Laboratory (NYOSL) during the period between summer, 1973 to summer, 1974. Some of these drawings are of identified species, while others are not. All of these fish eggs and larvae were collected in Long Island Sound.
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Unidentified fish eggs | Unidentified fish larva | Unidentified fish larva | Unidentified fish larva |
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Unidentified fish larva | Unidentified fish larva | Unidentified fish larva | Unidentified fish larva |
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Unidentified fish larva | Unidentified fish larva | Unidentified fish larva | Anchoa hepsetus — Broad-striped anchovy |
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Bairdiella chrysura — Silver perch | Citharichthys arctifrons — Gulf stream flounder | Cynoscion sp. — Weakfish | Enchelyopus cimbrius — Fourbeard rockling |
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Melanogrammus sp. — Haddock | Meluccius bilinearis — Silver hake | Menticirrhus saxatilis — Northern king croaker | Myoxocephasus sp. — Sculpin |
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Paralichthys oblongus — American fourspot flounder | Paralichthys oblongus — American fourspot flounder | Paralichthys oblongus — American fourspot flounder | Peprilus triacanthus — American butterfish |
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Pomatomous saltatrix — Bluefish | Prionotus sp. — Searobin | Prionotus sp. — Searobin | Prionotus sp. — Searobin |
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Rissola marginata (Ophidion marginatum) — Striped cusk-eel | Sphoeroides maculatus — Northern puffer | Trinectes maculatus — Hogchoaker (flounder) | Trinectes maculatus — Hogchoaker (flounder) |
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Trinectes maculatus — Hogchoaker (flounder) — time series, notice the eye migration | Trinectes maculatus — Hogchoaker (flounder) — early eye migration | Trinectes maculatus — Hogchoaker (flounder) — adult eye position | Possible Enchelyopus cimbrius — Fourbeard rockling — times series |
Drawings by Jeff Bloom (1973–1974)