Note 1036 — Chapter XXXIX · FISH WITH AND WITHOUT SCALES—METHODS OF FISHING—VIVARIA

In islands off Northern Australia are found walking and climbing fish, Periophthalmus koelreuteri and P. australis, which ascend the roots of the mangrove by the use of ventral and pectoral fins, and jump and skip on the mud with the alertness of rabbits (The Confessions of a Beachcomber, p. 204, London, 1913).

Ktesias, a possible contemporary of Herodotus, writes that in India are little fish whose habit it is now and then to have a ramble on dry land.