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Golden Weedfish

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Tack-in-marra-dera
English JS Main: 
Golden Weedfish
English: 
The fish at top right labelled "Tack-in-marra-dera" has a fusiform body shape. The front dorsal and pelvic fins have a spiny appearance and the rear dorsal, anal and caudal fins have a ragged, forked appearance. The fish is predominantly brown in colour with grey underparts. The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
fauna: fishes
Source: 
Painters
Line: 
12381.1
Respelt: 
dagin-mara-dara
Part of speech: 
noun
Source Details: 
INDIGENOUS NAMES IN WORKS BY THE PORT JACKSON PAINTER, THOMAS WATLING etc. Watling Collection, Natural History Museum, London Transcribed by Keith V. Smith 2002 Watling, Thomas, 1762-1814? -------------- NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM, LONDON <[WebCat] Search The Natural History Museum's library catalogue> The 5-digit numbers are the picture identification numbers quoted near the end of each entry. --------- Most or all of the items with an indigenous word attached are in the JS PAINTERS ringbinder, arranged alphabelically by a JS ’no hyphens’ transcription. ========= NO PAINTERS FILE: This is the PENCIL line number (in JS ’Painters’ ringbinder) supplied by Keith Smith. the page numbers entered by JS
Comment: 
Watling Drawing - no. 381 : Four fishes, native names "Tag-ga", "Tack-in-marra-dera", "Dy-e-ne-ang", and "Ballang-an" / Thomas Watling]

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