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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 frnall in the jaws, roof of the 



mouth, and on the tongue. 

 Peroral fins broad and thick. 



51.CoM M c r: . BaT^axo; ■ Ariji. Hiji. an. 

 Lib. IV. >. 37. Oppian 

 HaUeiit. II. 86. 



Rana pifcatrix. OvLi. Ha- 

 lieut. 126. Plinii Lib. IX. 

 c. 24. 



La Grenouillc de mer, ou 

 pcfchcufc. Lc Diable de 

 mer, Bauldroy & Pefche- 

 teau. Bikn, -jj. 



B.ana pifcatrix. RondcL 563. 

 Gefncr pij'c* 8 1 3. 



Sehcganfs, feheteufFel, fehe-- 

 tode. SchoJie-jelde^ 59. 



Toad-fifh, FroG;-fifh, or Sea- 

 Devil. WiClah. 85. Raii 

 fyn.plfc. 29. _ 



Lophius ore cirrofo: Arted, 

 fyn.^ 87.^ 



Lophius pifcatorlus. Lin.fyft* 

 402. 



L. p. depreflus capite rotun- 

 dato. Fnun. Suec. No. 298. 

 Grono~j. Zooph. No. 207. 



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THIS fingular fifh was known to the an- 

 tients by the name of ^snpotyj^^ and Ranay 

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

 figure refembiing that animal in a tadpole (late. 

 Pliny takes notice of the artifice ufed by it to 

 take its prey : Eminent: a fub cutis cornicula turbata 

 limo exerit^ ajfuhantes pifciculos attrahens., donee tarn 

 frope accedanty ut ajfiliat. "It puts forth the 

 " flender horns it has beneath its eyes, enticing 

 *' by that means the little filh to play round, till 



" they 



