Note 2350 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.
John Bostock translation
Cuvier remarks that the “pompilos” of the ancients, which accompanied ships and left them on nearing the land, was the pilot-fish of the moderns, the Gasterosteus ductor of Linnæus. He thinks, however, that the name may have also been given to other fish as well, of similar habits.