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,tur Rondeletiiis) Bellonium non admodum abfurde fcripfifle : Ranam pi- 

 lcatricem geminos lub vencre pedes habere ad rana-pakiftrisfimilirudinem, 

 „membrana inrertextos, qvibus verilimile ert , eam rana: in modum per 

 „maris fundum incedere,,. Qvid ergo obflaret, qvo minus ejusmodi pi- 

 fcium genus fingulare conititueremus, fub antiqvo, qvo Plinius (Lib. XXXII. 

 cap. X.) utitur nomine. 



I. BATRACHUS, corpore qvafi pedato. Ex grarco GaTf«:^;o?, Rana ; fic 

 ranunculum plantam grsci batrachion vocant. Plin. XXV. 

 cap. CIX. batrachites , gemmacolorem ranae referens. Id. 

 XXXVII. cap. LVI. ^aj^axiog Xtjk, bufonita ; bufonitesj 

 bufonius lapis: 



j. Batrachiis, capite riEtuqve rante, corpore & figura gyrino fimih*s; 

 iiib ipfo gutture fibi mutuo vicina; binze pinns, talpsE pcdi- 

 bus (imillims, fingulx qvinis radiis feu digitis confiautes; 

 Willughb. p. S^- qvas pinnas tamen Tab. E. i. non exhiber. 

 A httle below the Diaphnigm , on its upper Part, are two 

 large Fins in the Shape of a Hand, anddividedintofiveFin- 

 gers ; Anonym cit. p. fo. & p. j/. He has rvvo littlc Feerco- 

 mingoutof his Belly, hke thc Feet of a Goole. Ultimus 

 fuit qvatuor pedes longus, with a Mouth large cnoughtora- 

 ke in a middle fifz'd Dog , it opcning twelve Inches wide. 

 (iaT(^rjt,x°? gr£cis. Pifcis rospus, Iftris; rospus enim ipfis 

 bufo. Bora, Taurinis ; Zatto, Lomhardisy G.Efitiusapnd 

 Charleton : Rana pifcatrix Salviani, & aliorum. The Tod fish , 

 orFrogfishjOrSea-Divel, Anglis. Subalteropinnarumpare, 

 in ipia piicis margine fito , ingentia foramina , in qvorum fun- 

 do tres branchiae, nullis ariftis donatar. Lophius a) ore 

 cirrofo b) figura corporis monftroia ; Artedi jfchtb. P. III. 



a) Ao^irt pinna , eminentia, qvia undiqve eminentiis , pinnifbrmibus inflruifur, >4r/f<f, 

 cum pinna alias ttti^i^ vel WTe^a^^ofia grscis audit, Ac<^/£t vel Ac(pia sutem 

 ptopne ^TO emtnenffa dorJifumnuT; inrupercJarilTimus /»»/o>- /'. //./>. j. autumat, mem- 

 branas qvae jnterdum fpeGiem pinnx habent , iiullis tamen ofllculis vel cartilapinibus 

 radiatis futciuntur, nulluni ufum in natando prseOate, hinc^/W<e Afpellar! »on fojje. 

 Qyicqvid tamen fit, plurimi pilces intrarent in contuLernium Lophfgramy QYod plutimj 

 cminentias habenti Horum Mteim ncn aSx duas /pcciei rccenfet. 



