animals

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Fishes in some few cases have an
oesophagus, as the conger and the eel; and in these the organ is
small.

In fishes that are furnished with an undivided liver, the organ
lies entirely on the right side; where the liver is cloven from the
root, the larger half of the organ is on the right side: for in some
fishes the two parts are detached from one another, without any
coalescence at the root, as is the case with the dogfish. And there is
also a species of hare in what is named the Fig district, near Lake
Bolbe, and elsewhere, which animal might be taken to have two livers
owing to the length of the connecting ducts, similar to the
structure in the lung of birds.