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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 2488 — BOOK IX. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF FISHES.

John Bostock translation

Βάτραχος ἁλιεὺς, the sea-frog, the Lophius piscatorius of Linnæus, and the baudroie of the French. Cuvier remarks, that though there is little solidity or firmness in the bones of this animal, it is not properly a cartilaginous fish.

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