Boarfish (heraldic animal)
The boarfish 's Heraldry a heraldic animal . This animal, which rarely appears in coats of arms, belongs to the mythical creatures and is unlike the real boarfish .
In the coat of arms, the front part of the heraldic animal boar , front legs at least visible, is supplemented with a fish tail . The boar, erect to the right, has an upwardly curved fish tail at its rear. Due to its rarity, there are no special specifications for this boarfish. The coloring should always correspond to the general heraldic rules and the orientation to the well-known fish-tailed animals in heraldry. In older heraldic writings, animals with fish tails are also called mole worms .
literature
- See-Boar in the Heraldry Wiki
- Maximilian Gritzner: Large and general book of arms. Books on Demand, Bremen 2012 (reprint of the original edition Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1888), ISBN 978-3-95507-686-3 , p. 102.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gert Oswald : Lexicon of Heraldry. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1984, p. 276.