Disco'boli

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 10

Disco'boli, Cuvier's name for the Lumpsuckers (Cyclopterus), beside which he placed the Remora (q.v.). The term is still used for the family to which the Lumpsucker (q.v.) belongs.

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