[284] See B. ix. c. 28.
[285] See B. ix. c. 68.
[286] Or sea-lungs. See B. ix. c. 71, and B. xviii. c. 85.
[287] Or crawfish.
[288] “Pectines.” See B. ix. cc. 51, 52, 68, 74, 112.
[289] Athenæus adds a fourth name, “solen;” and a fifth was “dactylus,” see B. ix. c. 87. According to Dalechamps, the name “donax” was given to one kind of scallop, from its fancied resemblance to a thick, hollow, river-reed, and that of “onyx” from the resemblance of its colour to that of the finger-nails.
[290] It is not improbable that he may mean the same animal that has been mentioned in cc. [19] and [26] of this Book, the Enhydris. See also B. xxx. c. 8.
[291] See B. xxix. c. 22.
[292] See B. ix. cc. 17, 25, 75.