pectoral fins

“I imagine the knee of a hollowed knot halfway along it deflecting the current, making an eddy, a little aquatic sheep-space in which a miller’s thumb might hunker down, all gills and pectoral fins and wide, ugly mouth.”

Simon & Schuster: Wildwood

“The head is decorated with bands of pink, orange and green; the pectoral fins are pale green with a bold medial stripe of puce, and the tail is a study of blue-green and puce.”

The Confessions of a Beachcomber

“As its name indicates, it has fin-like hands; that is to say, the pectoral fins are supported by a kind of long wrist-like appendage, and the rays of the ventrals are not unlike rude fingers.”

Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence