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Learn more about GastromyzonX-ray Vision: Fish Inside Out, organized by the Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), is an exhibit traveling to museums across the country through 2015. Visit www.sites.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibits/ichthyo/index.htm for the tour itinerary.
3 fish drawings (4 x 6 cm., 4 x 6 cm., 4 x 6 cm.)Repository: Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard UniversityCall number: ARC 209-270
The Barred Sorubim, also known as Pintadillo and as Bagre Rayado. Catfish drying in Leticia, Colombia. Both P. tigrinum and P. fasciatum have patterns like this. In context at www.dixpix.ca/Amazon/fauna/riverlife/index.html
The South American pilchard, Sardinops sagax, is a sardine of the Family Clupeidae, the only member of the genus Sardinops, found in the indo-Pacific oceans. Their length is up to 40 cm. It has a number of other common names, some of which are for subspecies: blue pilchard, Australian pilchard, blue-bait, Californian pilchard, Chilean sardine, Japanese pilchard, Pacific sardine, and Southern African pilchard.