Cavorting around the Nautilus was a school of triggerfish with flat bodies, grainy skins, armed with stings on their dorsal fins, and with four prickly rows of quills quivering on both sides of their tails.
Un grupo de balistes, de cuerpo comprimido, de piel granulada, armados de un aguijón en el dorso, evolucionaban en torno al Nautilus, agitando las cuatro hileras de punzantes y erizadas espinas que llevan a ambos lados de la cola.