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LIBER IX · CAPUT 12

DISTRIBUTION OF AQUATIC ANIMALS INTO VARIOUS SPECIES

DISTRIBUTION OF AQUATIC ANIMALS INTO VARIOUS SPECIES. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
DISTRIBUTION OF AQUATIC ANIMALS INTO VARIOUS SPECIES · EDITORIAL PLATE IX.12 · modern editorial plate
DISTRIBUTION OF AQUATIC ANIMALS INTO VARIOUS SPECIES. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Aquatilium tegumenta plura sunt. alia corio et pilo integuntur ut vituli et hippopotami, alia corio tantum ut delphini, cortice ut testudines, silicum duritia ut ostreae et conchae, crustis ut locustae, crustis et spinis ut echini, squamis ut pisces, aspera cute ut squatina, qua lignum et ebora poliuntur, molli ut murenae, alia nulla ut polypi.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

The integuments of the aquatic animals are many in number. Some are covered with a hide and hair, as the sea-calf and hippopotamus, for instance; others again, with a hide only, as the dolphin; others again, with a shell, as the turtle; others, with a coat as hard as a stone, like the oyster and other shell-fish; others, with a crust, such as the cray-fish; others, with a crust and spines, like the sea-urchin; others, with scales, as fishes in general; others, with a rough skin, as the squatina, the skin of which is used for polishing wood and ivory; others, with a soft skin, like the muræna; and others with none at all, like the polypus.