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"The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters. Occasionally they have been found as far south, however, as the shores of Cos and the deep inlets of Tyros." Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 360, by John Norman.

Bint
"Such blood might attract the bind, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa." Explorers of Gor, pg. 247, by John Norman.

Cosian wingfish
"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 teh water and for brief distances, on it stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, usually to evade smaller sea-tharlarians, which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines. This fish is also at times referred to as the songfish because as a portion of it's courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a short whistling sound. The blue, four spired wingfish is found onlu in the waters of Cos. Larger varieties are found further out to sea. The samll blue is regarded a great delicacy, and it's liver a delicacy of delicacies." Nomads of Gor, pg. 84, by John Norman.

Dock eel
"I looked downward. Two or more heads, tapering, menacing, solid, were emerged from the water, looking up at me. Then, striking 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 felt the jaws snap and scratch against the shearing blade. Then it fell twisting back in the water. It was the blood which excited them." Guardsman of Gor, pg. 130, by John Norman.

Eel
"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 eel, and such, which are Gorean delicacies. Needless to say a bound slave, cast into such a pool, will be eaten alive." Magicians of Gor, pg. 428, by John Norman.

Gint
"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... These tiny fish, incidentally, are called gints." Explorers of Gor, pg. 300, by John Norman.

Gint, giant
"The creature which had surfaced near us, perhaps ten feet in length, and a thousand pounds in weight, was scaled and had 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. Its pectoral fins were large and fleshy." Explorers of Gor, pg. 384, by John Norman.

Grunt, blue
"Such blood might attract the bind, a fanged, carnivorous marsh eel, or the predatory, voracious blue grunt, a small, fresh-water variety of the much larger and familiar salt-water grunt of Thassa. The blue grunt is particularly dangerous during the daylight hours preceding its mating periods, when it schools. Its mating periods are synchronized with the phases of Gor's major moon, the full moon reflecting on the surface of the water somehow triggering 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." Explorers of Gor, pg. 267, by John Norman.

Grunt, speckled
"I saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled." Explorers of Gor, pg. 360, by John Norman.

Grunt, white bellied
"Three other men of the Forkbeard attended to fishing, two with a net, sweeping it along the side of the serpent, for parsit fish, and the third, near the stem, with a hook and line, baited with vulo liver, for the white-bellied grunt." Marauders of Gor, pg. 59, by John Norman.

"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, pg. 276, by John Norman.

Hook-billed turtle
"Indeed, it was unlikely that my body would reach the delta at all. It was far more likely that one of the water lizards of the Vosk or one of the great hook-beaked turtles of the river would sieze my body and drag it and the frame under the water, destroying me in the mud below." Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 138, by John Norman.

Leach, salt
"I flicked a salt leach from the side of the light rush crafe with the corner of the tem-wood paddle." Raiders of Gor, pg. 5, by John Norman.

Leech, marsh
:described as rubbery about 4 inches long; it attaches itself to plants in the marsh or float free in the water, waiting for warm blooded animals. They fasten themselves to their victim to suck blood until, satiated, they detach. They can be removed with fire or salt. They are edible." Vagabonds of Gor, pg. 96-102 and 236, by John Norman.

Lelt
"Lefts are often attracted to the salt rafts, by their abnormally developed lateral-line protrusions, and their fernlike craneal vibration receptors; The tiny, eyeless heads will thrust from the water, and the fernlike filaments at the side of the head will open and lift, The lelt is commonly five to seven inches in length. It is white, and long-finned. It swims slowly and smoothly " Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 247, by John Norman.

Lung
"Also called gints; small fish found near half-submerged roots of shore trees or sunning on the back of tharlarion." Explorer of Gor, pg. 384, by John Norman.

Marine saurian
"Sharks, and sometimes marine saurians, sometimes trail the ships, to secure discarded garbage and rob the lines of the fishermen. I had seen, yesterday, the long neck of a marine saurian lift from the waters of gleaming Thassa. It had a small head, and rows of small teeth. Its appendages ere like broad paddles. Then it had lowered its head and disappeared. Such beasts, in spite of their frightening appearence, are apparently harmless to men. They can take only bits of garbage and small fish." Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 60, by John Norman.

Marsh moccasin
"..."narrow dark, poisonous snake about five feet long with a small triangular head. It inhabits the waters of the Vosk Delta." Vagabonds of Gor, pg. 267, by John Norman.

Mullusks
"I could hear the cry of sea birds, broad winged gulls, and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in th sand for tiny mollusks." Hunters of Gor, pg. 247, by John Norman.

Oysters
"Other girls had prepared the repast, which, for the war camp, was sumptuous indeed, containing even oysters from the delta of the Vosk, a portion of the plunder of a tarn caravan of Ar, such delicacies having been intended for the very table of Marlenus, the Ubar of that great city itself." Captive of Gor, pg. 301, by John Norman.

Parsit
"The slender, striped parsit fish has vast plankton banks north of the town and may there, particularly in the spring and fall be taken in great numbers; Trade to the south, of course, is largely in the furs acquired from Torvaldsland, and in the barrels of smoked, dried parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, pg. 28, by John Norman.

"It it twisting and flopping, silverish, striped with brown, squirmed more than a stone of parsit fish." Marauders of Gor, pg. 61, by John Norman.

River Urt, Cartius
"That scent, I knew, a distillation of a hundred flowers, nurtured like a priceless wine, was a secret guarded by the perfumers of Ar. It contained as well the separated oil of the Thentis needle tree; an extract from the glands of the Cartius river urt; and a preparation formed from a disease calculus scraped from the intestines of the rare Hunjer Long Whale, Marauders of Gor, pg. 114, by John Norman.

Shark, marsh
"Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled Gorean marsh sharks." Raiders of Gor, pg. 58, by John Norman.

Shark, Northern
"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. But their life, at best, was a precarious one." Explorers of Gor, pg. 36, by John Norman.

Shark, river
"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 the flash of a triangular, black dorsal fin. I screamed. Lana looked out, pointing after it. "A river shark," she cried, excitedly." Captive of Gor, pg. 79, by John Norman.

Shark, salt
"We saw the broad, blunt head, eyeless, white. Then it submerged, with a twist of the long spine and tail. The waters were still. At the top of the food chain in the pits, a descendant, dark-adapted, of the terrors of the ancient seas, stood the long-bodied, nine-gilled salt shark. The head was more than a yard in width, white pits where there might have been eyes. The raft tipped, struck by its back, as it turned and, twisting, glided away into the darkness." Tribesmen of Gor, pg. 251, by John Norman.

Shark, white
"There is also, however, some danger in this, for sea sleen and the white sharks of the north occasionally attempt to tear such a girl off the oar." Marauders of Gor, pg. 66, by John Norman.

Sea sleen
"The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters. Occasionally they have been found as far south, however, as the shores of Cos and the deep inlets of Tyros." Slave Girl of Gor, pg. 360, by John Norman.

Sea sleen, black
"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." Beasts of Gor, pg. 36, by John Norman.

Sea sleen, brown
"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." Beasts of Gor, pg. 36, by John Norman.

Sea sleen, flat-nosed
"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." Beasts of Gor, pg. 36, by John Norman.

Sea sleen, tusked
"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." Beasts of Gor, pg. 36, by John Norman.

Snails
"Once the Forkbeard went to her and taught her to check the scoop, with her left hand, for snails, that they not be thrown overboard. Returning to me he held one of the snails, whose shell he crushed between his fingers, and sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing it. He then threw the shell fragments overboard. "They are edible," he said. "And we use them for fish bait." Marauders of Gor, pg. 62, by John Norman.

Tambler clam
"I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern Peoples." Nomads of Gor, pg. 20, by John Norman.

Tharlarion, tiny water
"Immediately following I saw the water seem to glitter for a moment, a rain of yellowish streaks beneath the surface, in the wake of the water tharlarion, doubtless its swarm of scavengers, tiny water tharlarion, about six inches long, little more than teeth and tail." Raiders of Gor, pg. 1, by John Norman.

Tharlarion, marsh
"Marsh thalarion: I heard the hoarse grunting of the great march thalarion wieghing more than half a hundred men." Raiders of Gor, pg. 58, by John Norman.

Vosk carp
"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, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle." Raiders of Gor, pg. 1, by John Norman.

Vosk sorp
"There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest-Kings which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp..." Assassins of Gor, pg. 156, by John Norman.

Water lizards
"Idly, with repulsion, I watched the body of the tharlarion in the swamp. As the water lizards fed, the carcus, lightened, had shifted, rolling in the water. Now, in a matter of moments, the sekelton was visible, picked almost clean, the bones glistening, except where small lizards skittered about on them, seeking the last particles of flesh." Tarnsman of Gor, pg. 86, by John Norman.

Whale, baleen
"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, pg. 36, by John Norman.

Whale, Hunjer Long
"That scent, I knew, a distillation of a hundred flowers, nurtured like a priceless wine, was a secret guarded by the perfumers of Ar. It contained as well the separated oil of the Thentis needle tree; an extract from the glands of the Cartius river urt; and a preparation formed from a disease calculus scraped from the intestines of the rare Hunjer Long Whale, Marauders of Gor, pg. 114, by John Norman.

Whale, Karl
"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, pg. 6, by John Norman.

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