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Bamba, kon bilya, poinjinon
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Stingray
Includes Southern Eagle Ray, Masked Stingaree, Striped Stingaree, Smooth Stingray Southern Eagle Ray, Masked Stingaree, Striped Stingaree, Smooth Stingray. |
Myliobatis australis, Trygonoptera personata, Trygonoptera ovalis, Dasyatis brevicaudata |
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| Barndee, kuttern, dowen |
Bream
Includes Yellowfin Bream, Black Bream, Tarwhine. These species are sometimes colloquially known as Silver Bream. Yellowfin occurs in coastal waters as well as estuaries. Black Bream is more often found in estuaries, and occasionally in coastal waters. |
Acanthopagrus australis, Acanthopagrus butcheri, Rhabdosargus sarba |
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| Deree |
Trumpeter
Includes Western Striped Grunter and Sea Trumpeter. |
Pelates octolineatus, Pelsartia humeralis |
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| Dutark, murdo |
Whiting
Includes Southern School Whiting, Trumpeter Whiting, Yellowfin Whiting. |
Family Sillaginidae. Sillago bassensis, Sillago maculate, Sillago schomburgkii |
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| Ejarup, yollee ombula, kodger cuttuck, goojeet, yajarrup, dejarrup |
Snapper
There are several species in Derbal Nara. Older individuals often have a bump on the forehead, possibly given rise to name for 'head like an axe'TM. |
Pink snapper Pagrus auratus is the commonest species |
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| Gilbitch |
Parrotfish |
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| Goonga goombar, mamang, booga bidern, bugal-el-ngor |
Humpack whale
Goonga goombar means 'carrying a large neck or back'. Booga bidern means 'back of whale a creating trail in water as it jumps, i.e. breaching' and Bugal-el-ngor literally hillock on back. |
Megaptera novaeangliae |
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| Kalkarda, ngamiler, merderung (kalda, kalgarda, ngamiler) |
Mullet
Common in estuaries and coastal bays around Australia. |
Family Mugilidae e.g. Sea Mullet: Mugil cephalus |
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| Kardang gurrung, dubitch |
WA Dhufish
More often on offshore reefs than inshore coastal areas. The name dubitch was changed by wadjela (white people) to Jew Fish then Dhufish. |
Glaucosoma hebraicum |
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| Karreel, webin, djin-da-lo |
Estuary Cobbler
Common in estuaries and coastal waters. |
Cnidoglanis macrocephalus |
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