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Butterfly fish

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Tag-ga
English JS Main: 
Butterfly fish
English: 
"Tag ga" has a laterally compressed body shape with a slightly elongated snout, and spiny front dorsal and anal fins. It is coloured in a gradated wash of grey at the spine through to pale pink, and blue with white underparts, overlaid with darker spots towards the spine. The dorsal and anal fins are yellow ochre, and the pectoral and pelvic fins are blue. The author of this catalogue record is Suzanne Stenning.
Category: 
fauna: fishes
Source: 
Painters
Line: 
12381
Respelt: 
dag-ga
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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