Odax pullus (Butterfish, Greenbone)
Paratrachichthys trailli (Common Roughy)
Congiopodus coriaceus (Southern Pigfish)
Thyrsites atun (Baracoutta / Snoek)
Pseudophycis bacchus (Red Cod)
This is a small selection of larval fish illustrations that were done as part of my Master's thesis. The drawings were done using a cameralucida attachment to a binocular dissection microscope.
Dolphin, C.H. 1997 Larval characteristics of some fishes from the east coast of southern New Zealand. MSc Thesis. 208 pp. University of Canterbury, New Zealand.