Note 225 — BOOK XI. THE VARIOUS KINDS OF INSECTS. (continued 2)
John Bostock translation
Rondelet would read “gula,” the throat. This, though repudiated by Hardouin, is approved of by Cuvier, who justly looks upon the ordinary reading as an absurdity. Many fish, he says, and more especially the osseous ones, have teeth in the pharynx.