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COMMON ANGLER. Class IV. 



VII. 

 ANGLER, 



One aperture behind each ventral fin. 



Large, flat, and circular head and body. 



Teeth numerous and fmall in the jaws, roof of the 



mouth, and on the tongue. 

 Pectoral fins broad and thick. 



51. Common. Bctrgax o $- Arifi. Uift. an. Seheganfs, feheteuffel, fehe 

 Lib. IV. c. 37. Oppian tode. Schonevelde, 59. 

 Halieut. II. 86. 

 Rana pifcatrix. Ovid. Ha- 

 lieut. 126. Plinii Lib. IX. 



c. 24. 

 La Grenouille de mer, ou 



Toad-fifh, Fro^-fifh, or Sea- 

 Devil. Wil.^lah. 85. Rait 

 fyn.pifc. 29. 

 Lophius ore cirrofo* Arted. 

 Jyn. 8 7 ._ 



pefcheufe. Le Diable de Lophius pifcatorius. Lin. Jyji, 

 mer, Bauldroy & Pefche- 402. 



teau. Belon, 77. L. p. depreffus capite rotun- 



Rana pifcatrix. Rondel. 363. 4ato. Faun. Suec. No. 298. 

 Gefner pifc* 8 1 3. Grono<v. Zoopb. No. 207. 



Namj» f 1 ^HIS lingular fifh was known to the an- 

 1 tients by the name of B«t^%©- 5 and Rana 3 

 and to us by that of the fifhing frog, for it is of a 

 figure refembling that animal in a tadpole ftate. 

 Pliny takes notice of the artifice ufed by it to 

 take its prey : Eminentia fub oculis cornicula turbato 

 limo exerit, ajfultantes pifciculos attrahens^ donee tarn 

 prope aecedant, ut qfliliat. " It puts forth the 

 " flender horns it has beneath its eyes, enticing 

 \\ by that means the little filli to play round, till 



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