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English:
In Gesner's chapter on Tritons, a creature labeled "Sea-Pan or Sea-Satyr" (Latin:
Pan vel Satyrus marina
); followed by text stating "This is the image of an ichthyocentaur or sea-demon (Latin:
Iconem hanc ichthyocentauri, sive daemonis marini
). The creature has a goat-like head with two-horns sitting on a human female-like torso with pendulous breast, human like arms but with fleshy pincer-like hands, and small fishlike fins where hind legs might be. It does not have the horse-forelegs of typical ichthyocentaur. Cf.
File:Gesner - Fischbuch - S. 106 v.jpg
in a German edition, colorized.
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| Source | Gesner, Konrad (1558) Historiae animalium Liber IIII , p. 1197; (1604 ed.) p. 1001 . |
| Author | Konrad Gesner (1516 – 1565) |
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