Class IV. COMMON ANGLER. 



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GENUS X. ANGLER. 



Aperture, one behind each ventral fin. 

 Head and body large, flat, and circular. 

 Teeth numerous and small in the jaws, roof of 



the mouth, and on the tongue. 

 Fins pectoral, broad and thick. 



"B<x.rgx% i og. Arist. Hist. an. 



Lib. iv. c. 37- Oppian Ha- 



lieut. ii. 86. 

 Rana piscatrix. Ovid. Ha- 



lieut. 126. Plinii Lib. ix. 



c. 24. 

 La Grenouille de mer, ou 



pescheuse. Le Diable de 



mer, Bauldroy & Pesche- 



teau. Belon, 77- 

 Rana piscatrix. Rondel. 363. 



Gesner pise. 813. 

 Seheganss, seheteuffel, sehe- 



tode. Schonevelde, 5Q. 

 Toad-fish, Frog-fish, or Sea- 



Devil. Wil. Ichth. 85. Rail 1. Common. 



Syn. pise. 2Q. 

 Lophius ore cirroso. Arted. 



Syn. 87- 

 Lophhius piscatorius. Lin. 



Syst. 402. Gm. Lin. 147Q. 

 L. p. depressus capite rotun- 



dato. Faun. Suec. No. 298. 



Gtotiov. Zooph. No. 207. 

 Le Diable de Mer. Block 



ichth. iii. 74. tab. 87- 

 La Lophie bardroie. De la 



Cepede Hist, des Poissons. 



i. 304. tab. 15. Jig. 1. 



JLHIS singular fish was known to the antients 

 by the name of Bar^o;, and Rana, and to us 

 by that of the Fishing frog, for it is of a figure 



