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XXXIV. (Book 34)
Pisces Fluviatiles & Lacustres.
Piscis habet Pinnas, 1. quibus natat; & Branchias, 2. quibus respirat; & Spinas, loco ossium: praetereà, Mas, lactes; Foemina, Ova.
Quidam habent Squamas,
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Piscis habet Pinnas, 1. quibus natat; & Branchias, 2. quibus respirat; & Spinas, loco ossium: praetereà, Mas, lactes; Foemina, Ova.
Quidam habent Squamas,
ut Carpio 3 Lucius (Lupus) 4.
Alii sunt glabri, ut, Anguilla 5 Mustela 6.
Accipenser (Sturio) 7. mucronatus, ultra longitudinem viri excrescit;
Silurus 8 bucculentus, major illo est;
Sed maximus Antaceus (Huso;) 9.
Apuae 10. gregatim natantes, sunt minutissimi.
Alii hujus generis sunt, Perca, Alburnus, Mullus (barbus) Thymallns, Trutta, Gobius, Tinca 11.
Cancer 12. tegitur crustâ, habetque chelas, & graditur porrò & retrò.
Hirudo 13 sugit sanguinem.
A Fish hath Fins 1. with which it swim∣eth, and Gills 2. by which it taketh breath, and Prickles instead of bones: besides, the Male hath a Melt, and the Female a Row.
Some have Scales,
as the Carp 3. and the Luce or Pike 4.
Some are sleek, as the Eele 5. and the Lamprey 6
The Sturgion 7. having a sharp snout, groweth longer than a man;
The Sheath-fish 8. having wide cheeks, is bigger then he.
But the Huson 9. is the greatest.
Minewes 10. swimming by shoals, are the least.
Others of this sort, are the Perch, the Bley, the Barbel, the Esch, the Trout, ye Gudgeon, & Tench 11
The Crab-fish 12. is covered with a shell, and it hath claws, and crawleth forwards & backwards
The Horse-leech 13. sucketh blood.