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Description: luyu 鯥魚, a type of fish from Sancai Tuhui 三才圖會. Birds & Beasts Book 6. Fish & shellfish. Text reads "A fish exist in Root Mountain 抵山 with a shape like ox, dewlls on land, serpent-tailed, and has wings where arms would be." The fish is translated "liu-fish" by Strassberg (entry in the Shan hai jing)[1]
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