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Description: | The Zoology Museum's Osteichthyes collection contains approximately 700 specimens, including many bodies preserved in fluid, various mounted dry specimens, c.150 jaws, and several skeletal parts. The majority of the Osteichthyes are ray-finned fishes; Teleostei specimens, in particular. A broad range of Teleostei are represented in the collection; the most commonly represented orders being Gaesterosteriformes (c. 30 sticklebacks), Gadiformes (particularly cod and haddock), Perciformes (including shanny and sharksuckers), Scorpaeniformes (long tail and short tail sea scorpions) and Anguilliformes (eels).
Among the Chondrostei are sturgeon and paddlefish specimens and among the Holostei are bowfin and gar specimens. The Sarcopteygii specimens in the Osteichthyes collection are mainly lungfish. African, Australian and South American lungfish are all represented. The Osteichthyes collection includes most of the specimens that Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards collected for his freshwater vertebrates of the arctic and sub-arctic collection.
One of the highlights of the collection is a cod skull that used to be part of the comparative anatomy collection of Robert Knox, the anatomist who purchased cadavers from Burke and Hare. The skull was prepared by his brother Frederick Knox.
Super collection: Zoology Museum.
Sub - collections: Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards' freshwater vertebrates of the arctic and sub-arctic collection ; Guy Harvey collection.
Objects: Actinopterygi (Chondrostei ; Holostei ; Teleostei) ; Sarcopterygii (especially Dipnoi). | Subjects: | Zoology bony fish. | Source: | University of Aberdeen | Address: | King's College,
AB24 3FX | Identifier: | ABDUZ:CLD19 | Relation: | ABDUA:CLD00 | Go to resource |
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