FIG. 3. — A in The Roman classification and nomenclature of aquatic animals: an annotated checklist (with a focus on ethnobiology)

FIG. 3. — A sample of those aquatic animals the Romans would have called piscis, i.e. fish, molluscs and crustaceans. Detail from a Roman mosaic from Pompeii, Ist century CE (Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Napoli; photo credit: A. Guasparri).