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* Parker's Heraldry - https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/index.htm
* Parker's Heraldry - https://www.heraldsnet.org/saitou/parker/index.htm
* Riestap's ''Armorial Général - http://www.euraldic.com/lasu/bl/bl_a_aa.html
* Riestap's ''Armorial Général - http://www.euraldic.com/lasu/bl/bl_a_aa.html
=A Heraldic Primer:=
Sea Creatures and their postures - http://heraldry.sca.org/primer/fish.html (defunct, originally by Stephen Gold)
As we have discussed the birds of the air and the beasts of the field, the denizens of the ocean are also seen in armory. They range from the dolphin (a fish very different from Flipper) and the whale through various different fish used primarily for canting. Rounding out the aquatic cavalcade are lobsters, crabs, escallops, octopi [now to be blazoned as polypus/polypi as of March 2012 LoAR in order to use a more period term] and squid [to be blazoned as calamarie or cuttle-fish per the March 2012 LoAR].
{| class="wikitable"
|[[File:Dolphin.gif]]
|[[File:Fishnaiant.gif]]
|[[File:Whale.gif]]
|[[File:Lobster.gif]]
|-
|A dolphin
|A lucy (medieval name for pike)
|A whale
|A lobster
|}
Just as beasts and birds have certain names for postures, most fish have specific names for postures, as outlined below.
{| class="wikitable"
!Posture
!Defining traits
!stylised drawing
!Example
|-
|Embowed
|Curved body bending 'inward'
|[[File:Fish0.gif]]
|[[File:Fishembowed.gif]]
|-
|Embowed-counterembowed
|'S' shaped curve to the body, Seen most often with dolphins.
[Some treatises refer to this at ''torqued'', ''torquend'', ''torgant'', or ''targant'']
|[[File:Fish1.gif]]
|[[File:Dolphin.gif]]
|-
|Haurient
|Body in pale, head to chief [haurient for dolphins looks like embowed-counterembowed ?]
|[[File:Fish2.gif]]
|[[File:Fishhaurient.gif]]
|-
|Naiant
|Body in fess, head to dexter
|[[File:Fish3.gif]]
|[[File:Fishnaiant.gif]]
|-
|Urinant
|Body in pale, head to base
|[[File:Fish4.gif]]
|[[File:Fishuriant.gif]]
|}


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