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Kylion

All the text says about the kylion is that its spleen is on the right and the liver on the left, which is opposite to the arrangement in other animals. The artist used his imagination to come up with this hybid of beast and fish.

The image was obtained from the source listed below.

Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes

Manuscript

Bibliothèque Municipale de Valenciennes, MS 320 (Liber de natura rerum), folio 116v

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