XXXIV.

River Fish and Pond Fish. Pisces Fluviatiles & Lacustres.

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A _Fish_ hath _Fins_, 1. with which it swimmeth, and _Gills_, 2. by which it taketh breath, _Piscis_ habet _Pinnas_, 1. quibus natat; & _Branchias_, 2. quibus respirat; and _Prickles_ instead of bones: besides the _Male_ hath a _Milt_, and the _Female_ a _Row_. & _Spinas_ loco ossium: præterea, _Mas Lactes_, _Fœmina Ova_.

Some have _Scales_. as the _Carp_, 3. and the _Luce_ or _Pike_, 4. Quidam habent _Squamas_, ut _Carpio_, 3. _Lucius_, (Lupus) 4.

Some are sleek as the _Eel_, 5. and the _Lamprey_, 6. Alii sunt glabri, ut, _Anguilla_, 5. _Mustela_, 6.

The _Sturgeon_, 7. having a sharp snout, groweth beyond the length of a Man. _Accipenser_ (Sturio), 7. mucronatus, crescit ultra longitudinem viri.

The _Sheath-fish_, 8. having wide Cheeks, is bigger than he: _Silurus_, 8. bucculentus, major illo est:

But the greatest, is the _Huson_, 9. Sed maximus _Antaseus_ (Huso,) 9.

_Minews_, 10. swimming by shoals, are the least. _Apuæ_, 10. natantes gregatim, sunt minutissimæ.

Others of this sort are the _Perch_, the _Bley_, the _Barbel_, Alii hujus generis sunt _Perca_, _Alburnus_, _Mullus_, (Barbus) the _Esch_, the _Trout_, the _Gudgeon_, and _Trench_, 11. _Thymallus_, _Trutta_, _Gobius_, _Tinca_, 11.

The _Crab-fish_, 12. is covered with a shell, and it hath _Claws_, and crawleth forwards and backwards. _Cancer_, 12. tegitur crusta, habetque _chelas_, & graditur porro & retrò.

The _Horse-leech_, 13. sucketh blood. _Hirudo_, 13. sugit sanguinem.