Clafs IV. COMMON FISHING FROG. 93 
Genus VII. 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. 
FisHiIne Froc. 
I. The COMMON FISHING FROG: 
Bareuros. Arift. Hift. an. lib. Seheeanfs,  feheteuffel, fehe— 
iv. c. 37- Oppian Halieut. it. _tode. Schonevelde, 59. 
86. Toad-fith, Frog-fith, or Sea- 
Rana pifcatrix. Ovid. Halitut. Dewils Wials Wletks 85. a 
126. Plinii ib. ix. ¢. 24. pei nea ie ae gio 
La Grenoille de mer, ou pef- 9 4 
cheufe. Le Diable de mer, 
7° 
Lophius pifcat + BB 
Bauldroy & Pefcheteau. Be- OPPS PEG? orius. Lyn Life 
402. 
don. (Tidade L. p. depreffus capite rotundato.’ 
Rana pifcatrix. Roxdel. 363. Faun. fuec. No. 298. Gronov. 
Gefner pifc. 813. Looph. No. 207. 
HIS fingular fifh was known to the antients 
by the name of Boreax@s and Rana, and to 
us by that of the fifhing frog, for it is of a figure 
refembling that “nena in a tadpole ftate. en 
‘takes notice of the artifice ufed by it to take its 
prey: Eminentia [ub oculis cornicula turbato limo exe- 
rit, affultantes pifciculos attrabens, donec tam prope 
accedant, ut afiliat. ‘‘ \t puts forth the flender horns’ 
** it has beneath its eyes, enticing by that means the 
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