Dictionary of Ichthyology
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Dictionary of Ichthyology | |
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| sea bishop = a monstrous figure reported in the sixteenth century, scaled like a fish and resembling a bishop, presumably founded on the Jenny Haniver and Ea, the Sumerian fish god figure (q.v.). Also called bishop-fish. |
| From Guillaume Rondelet's Libri di Piscibus Marinis (1554). | |