aquatic life on Gor

BINT:
A small fanged, carnivorous, freshwater marsh eel which inhabits the rivers of the rainforests inland of Schendi. A large school of bints can strip a carcass in minutes; similar to the piranha of Earth.




COSIAN WINGFISH:
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.




DOCK EEL:
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.




EEL:
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.




GINT:
A tiny (6") 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.




GINT, GIANT:
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.




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




GRUNT, BLUE:
A small voracious carnivorous freshwater fish related to the Thassa grunt; like its larger cousin it is attracted by blood.




GRUNT, GREAT SPECKLED:
A fish inhabiting the Thassa and caught as food for sailors. four-gilled.




GRUNT, WHITE:
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.




LELT:
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.




MARINE SAURIAN:
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.




OYSTERS:
Presumably the same as earthen oysters they are found in the delta of the Vosk.




PARSIT FISH:
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.




RIVER SHARK:
A narrow, black, vicious, carnivorous fish with a triangular dorsal fin that inhabits the rivers of Gor.




SALT SHARK:
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.




SHARK, MARSH:
Long bodied, nine-gilled inhabitant of the rence island areas of the marsh, they are almost eel-like. It is a deadly fresh water hunter of the Gorean Marshes similar in shape to the shark of earth.




SORP:
a giant clam...that thrives in the seas and Marshes of Gor...the shell of which is large enough to be used as a throne.




WHALE, BALEEN:
Bluish-white spotted whale with a blunt fin, hunted by the Red Hunters.




WHALE, HUNJER:
Toothed whale hunted by the Red Hunters.




WHALE, KARL:
Four-fluked baleen whale hunted by the Red Hunters.