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Phaedimus

PHAEDIMUS. Then again the care of the young is shared by both parents: the males do not eat their own young, but stand by the spawn to guard the eggs, as Aristotle Historia Animal. ix. 37 (621 a 21 ff.); cf. Herodotus, ii. 93. relates. Some follow the female and sprinkle the eggs gradually with milt, for otherwise the spawn will not grow, but remains imperfect and undeveloped. In particular the wrasseThe phycis is almost certainly one of the wrasses, probably in particular Crenilabrus pavo C.V. See Mair, L.C.L. Oppian, p. liii; Thompson, Glossary, pp. 276-278; Andrews, Journal of The Washington Academy of Sciences, xxxix (1949), pp. 12-14. makes a sort of nest of seaweed, envelops the spawn in it, and shelters it from the waves.