"Nav" wrote in message
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"1776 PENNANT Zool. III. 283 Garpike..this fish, which is found in many
places, is known by the name of the Sea-Needle. 1849 Zoologist VII. 2395
The gar-pike of the western rivers. 1866 OWEN Anat. Vertebrates I. iv.
275 The Tench, the Garpike, and the common Eel. 1883 Harper's Mag. Mar.
515/2 The gar-pike of Western lakes."



You forgot the part where the fish is describe is terms of blood, phlegm,
bile, and faeces.

Gilligan