In an age where steamships did not exist, where the seas could still be somewhat unexplored, where a fishing village could starve when boats did not return, the sea gave its plenty to many but also threatened with dangers all its own.
A fanged, carnivorous, freshwater marsh eel which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi.
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, page 267
Also known as songfish due to its whistling mating song; a tiny blue salt-water fish with 4 poisonous spines on its dorsal fin, found in the waters off the island of Cos. Its liver is considered a delicacy in Turia.
Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I
heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. This is a small, delicate
fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. It is
called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide
through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the
poison of the spines. It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals,
males and females thrust their heads from teh water, uttering a kind of whistle. Their
livers are regarded as a delicacy.
Raiders of Gor, page 139
A black freshwater eel 4 feet long, weighing 8-10 lbs. Carnivorous and aggressive, they inhabit the shallow waters around the dock and wharves of river ports.
I looked downward. Two or more heads, tapering,
menacing, solid, were emerged from the water, looking up at me. Then, straking 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, page 130
A voracious animal which can maim or kill a slave in moments. Some varieties are edible. Varieties include river eel, black eel, and spotted 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, page 428
A tiny freshwater fish which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi. It has bulbous eyes and flipper-like fins and is amphibious, having both lungs and gills. It is capable of walking on its pectoral fins and is often found in the company of tharlarion, feeding off the scraps of their kills.
I recalled, sunning themselves on the 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 adn 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
A large cousin of the gint found in western Gor similar in appearance but with a 4-spined dorsal fin. It is also amphibious and capable of walking on its pectoral fins.
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, page 384
A large, carnivorous, salt-water fish which inhabits Thassa. It is often attracted by the blood of a wounded creature.
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Book 9, page 59
A small voracious carnivorous freshwater fish related to the Thassa grunt; like its larger cousin it is attracted by blood.
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, page 267
A fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors.
I saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 360
A large game fish that haunts the plankton beds in the Polar North to feed on parsit fish. Its eggs are considered a rare delicacy.
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, page 276
A small (5-7 inches) blind fish with fernlike 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 receptos, 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 teh water, and the fernlike filaments at the side of the
head will open and lift, orienting themselves to one or the other of the lamps. The lelt
is commonly five to seven inches in length. It is white, and long-finned. It swims slowly
and smoothly, its fins moving the water very little, which apparently contributes to its
own concealment in a blind environment and makes it easier to detect the vibrations of its
prey, any of several varieties of tiny segmented creatures, predominantly isopods. The
brain of the lelt is interesting, containing an unusually 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 its
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.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 247
There are two types of marine saurian. One type being harmless with a long neck and rows of sharp teeth. Its feeds on garbage and small fish. The other type is a fish-like predator with long, toothed snouts that are silent and aggressive; sailors fear them as they do the long-bodied sharks.
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. Certain related species thrive on crustaceans found among
aquatic flora. Further, such beasts are rare. Some sailors, reportedly, have never seen
one. Far more common, and dangerous, are certain fishlike marine saurians, with long,
toothed snouts; they are silent and aggressive, and sailors fear them as they do the
long-bodied sharks.
Slave Girl of Gor, page 360
Presumably the same as earthen oysters they are found in the delta of the Vosk.
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, page 301
A silvery fish having brown stripes, the follow the 'parsit current' in the polar basin. In Torvaldsland, it is smoked and dried, stored in barrels, and used in trade to the south.
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Book 12, page 38
A narrow, black, vicious, carnivorous fish with a triangular dorsal fin that inhabits the rivers of Gor.
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, page 79
A long-bodied (12' or more) carnivorous fish having gills situated under the jaw, several rows of triangular teeth, a sickle-like tail and a sail-like dorsal fin. It inhabits brine pits such as those of the Tahari.
"Look!" I cried. This time it was close, surfacing not ten
feet from the raft. We saw the broad, blunt head, eyeless, white. Then it submerged, with
a twist of the long spine and tail.
The steerman was white. "It is the Old One," he said. On the whitish back, near
the high dorsal fin, there was a long scar. Part of the dorsal fin itself was rent, and
scarred. These were lance marks.
"He has come back," said one of the men.
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.
Tribesmen of Gor, page 251
Long bodied, nine-gilled inhabitant of the rence island areas of the marsh, they are almost eel-like.
Beyond them would be the almost eel-like, long-bodied, nine-gilled
Gorean marsh sharks.
Raiders of Gor, page 58
A shellfish, common especially in the Vosk river, it is similar to an oyster and also produces pearls.
"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber
droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber lam, glass colored
and cut in Ar for trade with ignoant southern peoples."
Book 4, page 20
Bluish-white spotted whale with a blunt fin, hunted by the Red Hunters.
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Book 12, page 265 and 334
Toothed whale hunted by the Red Hunters.
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Book 12, page 36
Four-fluked baleen whale hunted by the Red Hunters.
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