Esox lucius

Esox lucius, Latinitate antiquitatis posterioris lucius tantum, est piscis fluvialis partium borealium Eurasiae Americaeque. Binomen a Carolo Linnaeo anno 1758 institutum est. A piscatoribus gastronomisque requiritur: iam saeculo XIV exeunte Galfridus Chaucer in carmine lyrico confessus est:

Esox lucius

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Animalia — Chordata

Subphylum : Vertebrata 
Superclassis : Osteichthyes 
Classis : Actinopterygii 
Superordo : Protacanthopterygii 
Ordo : Esociformes 
Familia : Esocidae 
Genus : Esox 
Species : Esox lucius 
Linnaeus, 1758

   

Conservationis status

LC

Vigens (IUCN 3.1)

Territorium

Was nevere pik walwed in galauntine

As I in love am walwed and ywounde

("Nunquam lucius in galantina tam involutus est quam ego in amore involvor includorque").

Bibliographia

Fontes antiquiores

• c. 371 : Ausonius, Mosella 120-124
• post 511 : Anthimus, De observatione ciborum 40

Praecepta culinaria

• c. 1300 : Enseignements 141, 182 (Grégoire Lozinski, ed., La Bataille de Caresme et de Charnage [Lutetiae: Honoré Champion, 1933] pp. 181-187) alibi
• 1654 : Jos. Cooper, The Art of Cookery Refin'd and Augmented, containing an Abstract of Some Rare and Rich Unpublished Receipts of Cookery collected from the Practise of that Incomparable Master of These Arts, Mr. Jos. Cooper, Chiefe Cook to the Late King. Londinii: R. Lowndes (pp. 25-28 apud Google Books) ("How to boyle a pike")