Fauna of Gor
Aquatic Animals
(here you will find creatures that live in atleast part time the waters of Gor)

Cosian  Wingfish (also called songfish)
A tiny delicate, blue fish called wingfish due to its ability to fly above the waters for short distances. It has 3-4 slender spines on it's dorsal fin that are poisonous. Sometimes called songfish because of the whistling sound it makes when it's head is above water as a part of it's courtship. It's livers are considered a delicacy. Only found in the waters of Cos.

"'Now this,' Saphrar the merchant was telling me, 'is the braised liver of the blue four-spired
Cosian wingfish.' This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in
one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of
hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the
air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be immune to the poison of the
spines. This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship
rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound.
The blue, four-spired wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found farther
out to sea. The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of
delicacies."
Nomads of Gor, pages 84-85

Crocodiles
Similar to the river tharlarion.

"Are you prepared to perform?" I asked.
"Do not so violate the privacy of a girls dream!" she begged.
"You have no privacy," I said. "You belong to me."
"Am I not to be permitted the least vestige of my pride?" she asked.
"No," I told her.
"I shall now perform for my master," she said.
"Do so," I said, "and precisely, in each and every detail, as in your dream."
Yes, my master," she said. she looked at me. "Remember," she said, "that I was forced to do this, that I not be hurled to the waiting jaws of crocodiles, beasts much like river tharlarion. That I not suffer so horrible a fate I knew that I must please him well, and as the slave which I had
now been proven to be."
Explorers of Gor Page 311-312

Eel

"Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr and a
sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros."
Raiders of Gor, page 114

"I was only dimly conscious of the wetness of my back.  Then something wet and heavy,
slithering; leapt upward out of the water, and splashed back.  My leg felt stinging.  It had not
been able to fasten its jaws on me.  I looked downward.  Two more heads, tapering, menacing, solid, were emerged from the water, looking up at me.  Then, streaking from under the water, suddenly breaking its surface, another body, some four feet in length, about eight or ten pounds in weight, leapt upward.  I knew that the fastening of those jaws, in a fair bite, could gouge ounces of flesh from a man's body."
Rogue of Gor, page 130

Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eels, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive.
Magicians of Gor page 428

bint (march eel) Kisu dropped it back in the water.  "I do not want my blood pinched from it, released in the water," he said.
Ayari nodded, shuddering. Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous march eel, or the predatory larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa.
Explorers of Gor Page 267 eel, black its proximity to the tharlarion affords it, interestingly, an effective protection against most of its natural  predators, in particular the black eel, which will not approach the sinuous reptiles.
Explorers of Gor Page 299
Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eels, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive.
Magicians of Gor page 428 eel, dock
A black freshwater fish, 4' long & weighing 8-10 lbs., carnivorous, they inhabit the shallow waters around the dock and wharves of river ports " When he stood in about a foot of water, among the pilings, near the next wharf, he struck
down madly at his legs with his left hand, striking two dock eels from his calf."
Rogue of Gor, page 154

"The dock eels, black, about four feet long, are tenacious creatures.  They had not
relinquished their hold on the flesh in their jaws when they had been forcibly struck away
from the leg, back into the water."
Rogue of Gor, pages 154-155

eel, river Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eels, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive.
Magicians of Gor page 428 eel, spotted Many estates, particularly country estates, have pools in which fish are kept. Some of these pools contain voracious eels, of various sorts, river eels, black eels, the spotted eels, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive.
Magicians of Gor page 428

Gint
a tiny 6" freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests inland of Schendi, it has bulbous eyes & flipper like fins, having both lungs & gills, is capable of walking on its pectoral fins, often found in the company of tharlarion, feeding off the scraps of their kills and using their closeness for protection of there own natural enemies. I was interested in the fauna of the river and the rain  forest. I recalled, sunning themselves on exposed roots near the river, tiny fish. They were bulbous eyed and about six inches long, with tiny flipperlike lateral fins. they had both lungs and gills. their capacity to leave the water, in certain small streams, during dry seasons, enables them to seek other streams, still flowing, or pools. This property also, of course, makes it possible for them to elude marine predators and , on the land, to return to the water in case of danger. Normally they remain quite close to the water. Sometimes they even sun themselves on the backs of resting or napping tharlarion. should the tharlarion submerge the tiny fish often submerges with it, staying close to it, but away from its jaws. Its proximity to the tharlarion affords it, interestingly, an effective protection against most of its natural predators, in particular the black eel, which will not approach the sinuous  reptiles. similarly the tiny fish can thrive on the scraps from the ravaging jaws of the feeding tharlarion. They will even drive one another away from their local tharlarion, fighting in contests of intraspecific aggression, over the plated territory of the monster's back. The remora fish and the shark have what seem to be, in some respects, a similar relationship. These tiny fish, incidentally, are called gints.
Explorers of Gor  page 299-300

Gint, Giant
a large cousin of the gint found in western Gor, similar in appearance, but with a 4 spined dorsal fin, is also amphibious and capable of walking on its pectoral fins

I saw the large fish, one of the bulging-eyed fish we had seen earlier, a gigantic gint, or like a gigantic gint, it now having slipped over the channel's sill, disappear under the water.
"Hurry!" I called.
Sobbing, gasping, she plunged splashing through the shallow water and clambered onto the mud and grass of the bank.
"How horrible it was!" she cried. then she screamed wildly. the fish, on its stout, fleshy pectoral fins, was following her out of the water. She turned about and fled screaming into the jungle. with the butt of the spear I pushed against its snout. The bulging eyes regarded me. The large mouth now gulped air. It then, clumsily, climbed onto the bank. I stepped back and it, on its pectoral fins, and lifting itself, too, by its heavy tail, clambered out of water and approached me. I pushed against its snout again with the butt of the spear. It snapped at the spear. Its bulging eyes regarded me. I stepped back. It lunged forward, snapping. I fended it away. I then retreated backward, into the trees. It followed me to the line of trees, and then stopped. I did not think it would wish to go too far from the water. after a moment or so it began to back away. The, tail first, it slid back into the water of the lagoon. I went to the water's edge. There I saw it beneath the surface, its gills opening and closing. Then it turned about and, with a slow movement of its tail, moved away. Ayari and Kisu referred to such fish as gints. I accepted their judgment on the matter. They are not to be confused, however, that is certain, with their tiny brethren of the west.
Explorers of Gor Page 389

Grunt
A large, carnivorous, salt-water fish which inhabits Thassa; is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature; similar to the shark of Earth

Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
Marauders of Gor Page 59

grunt, blue
A small, voracious, carnivorous freshwater fish,  like its larger cousin, attracted by blood and very vicious just before mating. "Keep a watch for tharlarion," said Kisu.  He reached under the water and pulled a far, glistening leech, some two inches long from his leg.
"Destroy it," said Ayari
Kisu dropped it back in the water.  "I do not want my blood pinched from it, released in the water," he said.
Ayari nodded, shuddering. Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous march eel, or the predatory larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa.  The blue grunt is particularly dangerous in the daylight hours preceding it's mating periods, when it schools.  It's mating periods are synchronized with the phases of the Gor's major moon, the full moon reflecting on the surface of the water somehow trigger the mating instinct.  During the daylight hours preceding such a moon, as the restless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path.  During the hours of mating, however, interestingly, one can move and swim among them untouched.
Explorers of Gor Page 267 grunt, great speckled
a fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors.
Book 11: Slave Girl of Gor, page 360

grunt, white-bellied
a large game fish which haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish.  It's eggs are considered a rare delicacy.

Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo lover, for the white-bellied grunt, a large game fish which haunts the plankton banks to feed on parsit fish.
Marauders of Gor Page 59

"Before each guest there were tiny slices of tospit and larma, small  pastries, and in a tiny
golden cup, with a small golden spoon, the clustered, black, tiny eggs of the white grunt."
Fighting Slave of Gor, pages 275-276

Leech
about 2 inches in length. "Keep a watch for tharlarion," said Kisu.  He reached under the water and pulled a far, glistening leech, some two inches long from his leg.
"Destroy it," said Ayari
Kisu dropped it back in the water.  "I do not want my blood pinched from it, released in the water," he said. Ayari nodded, shuddering. Such blood might attract the bint, a fanged, carnivorous march eel, or the predatory larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa.
Explorers of Gor Page 267

Lelt
A small (5-7 inches) blind fish with fern like filaments at either side of the head which are its sensory organs; white, with long fins, it swims slowly, and is the main food of the salt shark; inhabits the brine pits such as those at Klima in the Tahari

Lelts are often attracted to the salt rafts, largely by the vibrations in the water, picked up by their abnormally developed lateral-line protrusions, and their fernlike craneal vibration receptors, from the cones and poles.  Too, though they are blind, I think either the light, or the heat, perhaps, from our lamps draws them.  The tiny, eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the fernlike filaments at the side of the head will open and lift, orienting themselves to one of the other of the lamps.  The let is commonly five to seven inches in length.  It is white, and long-finned.  It swims slowly and smoothly, it's fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to it's own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of it's prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominately isopods.  The brain of the left is interesting, containing an unusual developed odor-perception center and two vibration-reception centers.  Its organ of balance, or hidden "ear," is also unusually large, and is connected with an unusually large balance center in it's brain.  Its visual center, on the other hand, is stunted and undeveloped, a remnant, a vague genetic memory of an organ long discarded in its evolution.  Among the lelts, too, were, here and there, tiny salamanders, they too, white and blind.  Like the lelts, they were, for their size, long bodies, were capable of long periods of dormancy and possessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful.  Unlike the lelts, they  had long, stemlike legs.  At first I had taken them for lelts, skittering bout the rafts, even to the fernlike filaments at the side of their head, but these filaments, in the case of the salamanders, interestingly, are not vibration receptors but feathery gills, an external gill system.  This system, common in developing animals generally, is retained even by the adult salamanders, who are, in this environment, permanently gilled.  The gills of the lelt are located at the lower sides of it's jaw, not on the side of it's head, as in common open water fish.  The feather gills of the salamanders, it seems allow them to hunt in the same areas as the lelts for the same prey, the vibration effects of these organs being similar, without frightening them away, thus disturbing the water and alerting possible prey. They often hunt in the same areas.  Although this form of salamander possesses a lateral-line set of vibration receptors, like the lelt, it lacked the craneal receptors and it's lateral-line receptors do not have sensitivity of the lelts.  Following the lelt, not disturbing it, often helps the salamander find prey.  On the other hand, the salamander, by means of it's legs and feet, can dislodge prey inaccessible to the lelt.  The length of the stemlike legs of the salamander, incidentally, help in stalking in the water.  Further they enable the animal to move efficiently, covering large areas without considerable metabolic cost.  In a blind environment, when food is scarce, energy conservation is essential.
Tribesmen of Gor Page 247-248

Lung Fish
(also see Gint)

The creature which had surfaced near us, perhaps ten feet in length, and a thousand pounds in weight, was scaled and lad large, bulging eyes.  It had gills, but it too, gulped air, as it had regarded us.  It was similar to the tiny lung fish I had seen earlier on the river, those little creatures clinging to the half-submerged roots of shore trees, and, as often as not, sunning themselves on the backs of tharlarion, those tiny fish called gints.  It's pectorial fins were large and fleshy.
Explorers of Gor  Page 384

Mamba
Large, predatory river tharlarion which inhabits the rivers of the rain forests  inland of Schendi; they have long, log like bodies, with short, powerful legs & a long snout & tail; similar to Earth crocodiles

The word "Mamba" in most of the river dialects does not refer to a venomous reptile as might be expected, given it's meaning in english, but, interestingly, is applied rather generally to most types of predatory river tharlarion.  The Mamba people were, so to speak, the Tharlarion people.  The Mamba people ate human flesh.  So, too, does the tharlarion.  It is thus, doubtless, that the people obtained their name.
Explorers of Gor  Page 393-394

Marine Saurian
reptilian like scavengers found in the Thassa, more than 20 ft in length, it has a long neck and small head with rows of small teeth.  Its appendages are like broad paddles.

Sharks, and sometimes marine saurians, sometimes trail the ships, to secure discarded garbage and rob the lines of the fishermen.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 360

Marsh Moccasin
narrow dark, poisonous snake about five feet long with a small triangular head.  It inhabits the waters of the Vosk Delta.
Book 24: Vagabonds of Gor, page 267

Marsh Turtle

"turning as it made a swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle."
Raiders of Gor, page 1

Mollusk

I heard the cry of sea birds, broad-wingered gulls and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in the sand for mollusks.
Hunters of Gor Page 247

Oyster

 She threw me one of the oysters.
Captive of Gor Page 301

"Other girls had prepared the repast, which for a the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing
even oysters from the delta of the Vosk,…"
Captive of Gor, page 301

Parsit Fish
a silvery fish having brown stripes "The men of Torvaldsland are skilled with their hands. Trade to the south, of course is largely in
furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 28

"Tomorrow night," said Ivar Forkbeard to her, " I shall have your ransom money." She did not
deign to speak to him, but looked away. Like the bond-maids, she had been fed only on cold
Sa-Tarna porridge and scraps of dried parsit fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 56

"The men with the net drew it up. In it, twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown,
squirmed more than a stone of parsit fish. They threw the net to the planking and, with
knives, began to slice the heads and tails from the fish."
Marauders of Gor, page 61

"The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the
cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width.  Another of the bond-maids
was then freed to mix the bond-maid gruel, mixing fresh water with Sa-Tarna meal, and then
stirring in the raw fish."
Marauders of Gor, pages 63-64

Remora Fish

The remora fish and the shark have what seem to be, in some respects, a similar relationship.
Explorers of Gor  page 300

Salamanders

Among the lelts, too, were, here and there, tiny salamanders, they too, white and blind.  Like the lelts, they were, for their size, long bodies, were capable of long periods of dormancy and possessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful.  Unlike the lelts, they  had long, stemlike legs.  At first I had taken them for lelts, skittering bout the rafts, even to the fernlike filaments at the side of their head, but these filaments, in the case of the salamanders, interestingly, are not vibration receptors but feathery gills, an external gill system.  This system, common in developing animals generally, is retained even by the adult salamanders, who are, in this environment, permanently gilled.  The gills of the lelt are located at the lower sides of it's jaw, not on the side of it's head, as in common open water fish.  The feather gills of the salamanders, it seems allow them to hunt in the same areas as the lelts for the same prey, the vibration effects of these organs being similar, without frightening them away, thus disturbing the water and alerting possible prey. They often hunt in the same areas.  Although this form of salamander possesses a lateral-line set of vibration receptors, like the lelt, it lacked the craneal receptors and it's lateral-line receptors do not have sensitivity of the lelts.  Following the lelt, not disturbing it, often helps the salamander find prey.  On the other hand, the salamander, by means of it's legs and feet, can dislodge prey inaccessible to the lelt.  The length of the stemlike legs of the salamander, incidentally, help in stalking in the water.  Further they enable the animal to move efficiently, covering large areas without considerable metabolic cost.  In a blind environment, when food is scarce, energy conservation is essential.
Tribesmen of Gor Page 247 Salt Leach "I flicked a salt leach from the side of my light rush craft with the corner of the tem-wood paddle."
Raiders of Gor, page 5

Sea Sleen

sea sleen, broad-head
long sleek mammal with flippers and six legs and double fanged jaws can weigh as much as 1000 pounds and as much as 20 feet in length hunted by the Red Hunters for food and pelt. "That, I think, is a rogue sleen," said Imnak.  "It is a broad-head, and they are rare in these waters in the fall.  Too, see the gray on the muzzle and the scarring on the right side of the head, where the fur is gone?"
"Yes," I said.
"I think it is a rogue," he said. "Also, see the way he is watching you."
Beasts  of Gor Page 283

I thrust the lance point into the rushing, extended, double-fanged jaws and it penetrated through the side of the mouth, tearing, the animal's face a yard up the shaft. It reared six feet out of the water vertical beside the slender hide vessel.
Beasts  of Gor Page 285

The animal was an adult, large-sized broad-head.  It was some eighteen to twenty feet in length and perhaps a thousand pounds in weight.
Beasts  of Gor Page 285

sea sleen, black
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North. Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey.. The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.  There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migration.  Not all members of a species of sleen migrate.  Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter to an Ahn or so to breathe.  This is done at breaks in the ice or at gnawed breathing holes.
Beasts  of Gor Page 38 sea sleen, brown
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North. Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey.. The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.  There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migration.  Not all members of a species of sleen migrate.  Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter to an Ahn or so to breathe.  This is done at breaks in the ice or at gnawed breathing holes.
Beasts  of Gor Page 38 sea sleen, flat-nosed
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North. Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey.. The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.  There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migration.  Not all members of a species of sleen migrate.  Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter to an Ahn or so to breathe.  This is done at breaks in the ice or at gnawed breathing holes.
Beasts  of Gor Page 38 sea sleen, tufted
one of the four main types of sea sleen found in the polar North. Sleen, interestingly, come northward with the parsit, their own migrations synchronized with those of the parsit, which forms for them their principal prey.. The four main types of sea sleen found in the polar seas are the black sleen, the brown sleen, the tusked sleen and the flat-nosed sleen.  There is a time of year for the arrival of each, depending on the waves of the parsit migration.  Not all members of a species of sleen migrate.  Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter to an Ahn or so to breathe.  This is done at breaks in the ice or at gnawed breathing holes.
Beasts  of Gor Page 38 sea sleen, white-spotted
its rich fur is used for cloaks And behind then, in a rich swirling cloak of the fur of the white spotted sea sleen, sword in hand, looking wildly about, was another man, one I did not know.
Beasts  of Gor Page 300

Shark The remora fish and the shark have what seem to be, in some respects, a similar relationship.
Explorers of Gor  page 300

shark, marsh
Deadly fresh water hunter of the Gorean Marshes, similar in shape to the shark of earth. It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators, that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with march spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to drive away, or at least to disconcert and confuse, too inquisitive, undesired visitors, such as the water tharlarion or the long bodied, nine gilled marsh shark.
Raiders of Gor  Page 13

"we could kill tharlarion," said Ho-Hak, and obtain leather.  And perhaps the teeth of the marsh shark might be fashioned in such a way as to tip arrows."
Raiders of Gor  Page 21

Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks.
Raiders of Gor  Page 58

shark, northern The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen.  Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals.  Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
Beasts of Gor Page 36 shark, river
a narrow, black, vicious, carnivorous fish with a triangular dorsal fin, which inhabits the rivers of Gor I saw a sudden movement in the water.  Something, with a twist of its great spine, had suddenly darted from the waters under the pier and entered the current of the Laurius.  I saw a flash of a triangular, black dorsal fin.
I screamed.
Lana looked out, pointing after it.  "A river shark," she cried, excitedly.  Several of the girls looked after it, the fin cutting the waters and disappearing in the fog on the surface.
Captive of Gor  Page 79 shark, salt
a long bodied carnivorous fish having gills situated under the jaw, several rows of triangular teeth, a sickle like tail, and a saluki dorsal fin, inhabits brine pits such as those of  the Tahari It came very suddenly, from beneath the water, not more then five feet from me, erupting upward.  I saw the man screaming in the jaws.  The head was more then a yard in width, white pits where there might have been eyes.  The raft tipped, struck back by its back, as it turned and twisted, gliding away into the darkness.
"Pole screamed the steersman. "Poles!" The poleman seized the poles, lowering them into the water.
One of the lamps sputtered out.
I heard screaming now, far off, then silence.  Because of the saline content of the water the salt shark, when not hunting, often swims half emerged from the fluid.  It's gills, like those of the lelt, are below and at the sides of his jaws.  This is salt adaptation which conserves energy, which, otherwise, might be constantly expended in maintaining an attitude in which oxygenation can occur.
Tribesmen of Gor Page 250

"It is the Old One," said the steersman.  "It is dusk."  I then understood, from his words, the meaning of the scarcity of the food in the pit.  When the hunting is good, one hunts.  One can return later to earlier kills, driving away scavenging lelts.  Further, I wondered at the salt shark, blind, living in total darkness.  Yet it hunted at dusk, and at dawn, driven apparently by ancient biological rhythms.  The long-bodied, ghostly creature, hunting in the black waters, followed still the rhythms of its dark clock, set for its species a quarter of a billion years ago in a vanished, silent sunlit world.
Tribesmen of Gor Page 251

Songfish
see Cosian Wingfish

Tamber Clam

I looked at him steadily.  "They are probably false stones,"  I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass covered and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples."
Nomads of Gor Page 20 Tharlarion
(that live within the waters mainly)

tharlarion, marsh
inhabitants of the marshes that comprise the delta of the Vosk, similar to crocodile. The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.  It is trackless and treacherous, and the habitat of marsh tharlarion and the predatory UI, a winged lizard with wing-spans of several feet.
Explorers of Gor Page 26

I nodded.  The marsh tharlarion, and river tharlarion, of Gor are, I suspect genetically different from the alligators, caymens and crocodiles of Earth.  I suspect this to be the case because these earth reptiles are so well adapted to their environment that they have changed very little in tens of millions of years.  The march and river tharlarion, accordingly, if descended from such beasts, brought long ago to Gor on Voyages of Acquisition by Priest-Kings, would presumably resemble them more closely.
Explorers of Gor Page 326

tharlarion, river
Extremely large, herbivorous, web footed lizards used by bargemen of the Cartius River to pull barges A broad, low-sided barge began to back toward the pier.  It had two large steering oars, manned by bargemen.  It was drawn by two gigantic, web-footed river tharlarion.  These were the first tharlarion I had seen.  They frightened me.  They were scaled, vast and long-necked.  Yet in the water it seemed, for their bulk, they moved delicately.  One dipped its head under the surface and moments later, the head emerged dripped, the eyes blinking, a silverish fish struggling in the small, triangular-toothed jaws.  It engorged the fish, and turned it small head, eyes now unblinking, to regard us.  They were harnessed to the broad barge.  They were controlled by the bargeman, with a long whipping stick, who was ensonced in a leather basket, part of the harness, slung between the animals.  He would also shout at them, commands, interspersed with florid Gorean profanity, and, slowly, not undelicately, they responded to his cries
Captive of Gor Page 79-80

I nodded.  The marsh tharlarion, and river tharlarion, of Gor are, I suspect genetically different from the alligators, caymens and crocodiles of Earth.  I suspect this to be the case because these earth reptiles are so well adapted to their environment that they have changed very little in tens of millions of years.  The march and river tharlarion, accordingly, if descended from such beasts, brought long ago to Gor on Voyages of Acquisition by Priest-Kings, would presumably resemble them more closely.
Explorers of Gor Page 326

tharlarion, tiny
similar to those in the swamp forest south of Ar

One of the guards, carrying a long, wooden pole, thrust it down, into the water. The water, judging by the pole, must have been about eight feet deep. The other guard, then, thrusting a heavy piece of meat on one of the hooks, to which a rope was attached, held the meat away from the platform and half submerged in the water. Almost instantly there was a frenzy in the water near the meat, a thrashing and turbulence in the murky liquid. I felt water splashed on my legs, even standing back as I was. Then the guard lifted the roped hook from the water. the meat was gone. Tiny tharlarion, similar to those in the swamp forest south of Ar, dropped, snapping, from  the bared hook. such tiny, swift tharlarion, in their thousands, can take the meat from a kailiauk in an Ehn.
Explorers of Gor Page 22 tharlarion, water It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators, that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with march spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to drive away, or at least to disconcert and confuse, too inquisitive, undesired visitors, such as the water tharlarion or the long bodied, nine gilled marsh shark.
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"To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike..."
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Vosk Sorp
a shellfish common especially in the Vosk river similar to an oyster, like an oyster it manufactures pearls I looked at him steadily.  "They are probably false stones,"  I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass covered and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples."
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"Ho-Hak looked at the man who wore the headband of pearls of the Vosk sorp."
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"He sat upon a giant shell of the Vosk sorp, as on a sort of throne, which for these people, I gather it was."
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Vosk Carp

"turning as it made a swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle."
Raiders of Gor, page 1

Whale

whale, baleen
Bluish blunt finned whale hunted by the Red Hunters Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white spotted blunt fin.  That two whales had been taken in one season was rare hunting, indeed.  Sometimes two or three years pass without a whale being taken.
Beasts of Gor Page 265 whale, hunjer
Large black, toothed whale hunted by the Red Hunters The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen.  Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals.  Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
Beasts of Gor Page 36 whale, karl
 four-fluked baleen whale hunted by the Red Hunters The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen.  Their fishing and hunting were seasonal, and depended on the animals.  Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale.
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