Reef Ocean Perch, Helicolenus percoides (Richardson, 1842), by Arthur Bartholomew. Hand coloured lithograph, lithographic ink, watercolour and varnish on paper, 26cm x 16cm. Published as Plate 33 in The Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria by Frederick McCoy.

This hand coloured lithograph by Arthur Bartholomew & Theresa Poole of a Reef Ocean Perch, Helicolenus percoides (originally as the Banded Red Gurnet-Perch, Sebastes percoides) was based on a specimen collected from the Victorian coast, It was commissioned in 1861 by Frederick McCoy, Director of the National Museum of Victoria, and finally published as Plate 33 in the Prodromus of the Zoology of Victoria. McCoy describes this species as "being rather rare on the Victorian coast".

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