746 b 



ARISTOTLE 



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« The batos is a flat-fish {P. A. 695 b 27, 696 a 26), called 

 by Thompson (translation of H.A. 566 a 27) the " skate," by 

 Piatt, a " ray." The rhine is called by Thompson the " angel- 

 fish " (note on H.A. 540 b 11), by Piatt, a '-'shark." At 

 H.A. 566 a 27 if. Aristotle again refers to the rhinobates as 

 a cross between these two fishes, and says that it has the head 

 and foreparts of the batos and the hindparts of the rhine. 



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