title: The Sea-Leopard and the Oxyrrhynchus Shark (Ael. NA 11, 24)
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metadata.value: Kaczyńska, Elwira
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metadata.name: dc.contributor.author
metadata.value: Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T09:50:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-09-09T09:50:24Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Elwira Kaczyńska, Krzysztof Tomasz Witczak. The Sea-Leopard and the Oxyrrhynchus Shark (Ael. NA 11, 24). Philologia Classica 2020, 15 (1), 37–46.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu20.2020.103
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/19319
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The paper analyzes Ch. 24 of the 11th book of Aelian’s De natura animalium devoted to the
  so-called sea-leopard (πάρδαλις) and the oxyrrhynchus fish, both living in the Red Sea. Aelian
  compares the body colour of the sea-leopard to the mountain leopard, i.e. the snow leopard or
  the ounce (Panthera uncia Schreber, 1775). This comparison clearly demonstrates that the sealeopard is to be identified with the sand tiger shark or the spotted ragged-tooth shark (Carcharias taurus Rafinesque, 1810). This fish usually resides and hunts in the depths of the sea, but also
  swims to the coast and sometimes attacks the swimming people. The attacks of sand tiger sharks
  must have taken place in ancient times, so the fish was easily recognizable not only by the Greeks
  but also by the inhabitants of the Red Sea’s seashore. The Greek ichthyonym ὀξύ(ρ)ρυγχος refers
  to five different species of fish, but Aelian uses it to denote an oriental kind of shark existing in
  the Red Sea (NA 11, 24). The oxyrrhynchus shark has an elongated mouth, golden eyes and white
  eyelids, i.e. nictitating membranes, typical of sharks belonging to the order Carcharhiniformes.
  Its tail is oblong in shape and its fins are black and white. There are also pale and green parts of
  its body. On the basis of Aelian’s description it is possible to suggest that the unknown fish should
  be identified with the bignose shark (Carcharhinus altimus S.Springer, 1950).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: The present article is part of the research project entitled Greek-Oriental contacts in a comparative perspective, financed by the scholarly development fund of the Faculty of Philology, University of Lodz.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philologia Classica;Volume 15; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: animal terminology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: etymology
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Greek language
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: leopards
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: sharks
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: vocabulary
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: zoological literature
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Sea-Leopard and the Oxyrrhynchus Shark (Ael. NA 11, 24)
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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