All fishes are saw-toothed excepting the scarus; and the teeth in
all cases are sharp and set in many rows, and in some cases are placed
on the tongue. The tongue is hard and spiny, and so firmly attached
that fishes in many instances seem to be devoid of the organ
altogether. The mouth in some cases is wide-stretched, as it is with
some viviparous quadrupeds....
With regard to organs of sense, all save eyes, fishes possess
none of them, neither the organs nor their passages, neither ears
nor nostrils; but all fishes are furnished with eyes, and the eyes
devoid of lids, though the eyes are not hard; with regard to the
organs connected with the other senses, hearing and smell, they are
devoid alike of the organs themselves and of passages indicative of
them.
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