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Gesner, Conrad (detail)
   
1556?
De piscibvs et aqvatilibvs omnibus libelli III. noui....
[Tiguri, 1556?]: 1-280.
–Or 1558 ed., Allen 14? Or 1563? Sirs., 213 or 253 (in 1587 ed.?). A woodcut in the 1558 ed., based on the verbal account of remora fishing by P. Martyr (1511), shows natives using a remora to catch what may be a manatee (see also P. Budker, The life of sharks, N.Y., Columbia Univ. Press: 156, 1971).

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