Flame Medal

Language: 
Biyal Biyal
Australian: 
Kaa-din
English JS Main: 
Flame Medal
English: 
3 - Do- -Do Kaa-din
Category: 
fauna: marine and aquatic life
Source: 
Painters
Line: 
12391.3
Respelt: 
ga-din
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. 391 : Nine Mollusks, native names "Kow-er-ring", "Kow-ill", "Kaa-din" and "Wal-gan" / Port Jackson Painter] // The mollusks were identified by Tom Iredale in 'History of New South Wales Shells Part III: The Settlement Years (continued): Thomas Watling, Artist', Proceedings, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales 1956-7 pp. 162-169 (1958). No. 1 is described as the King Scallop Notovola fumata [the OBIS database lists this name as a synonym for Pecten (Pecten) fumatus]. No. 2 is named as the Razor Shell Subitopinna menkei [OBIS lists Subitopinna as a synonym for Pinna]. No. 3 is the Flame Medal Veletuceta flammea [OBIS] lists Veletuceta as a synonym for Glycymeris (Veletuceta)]. No. 4 is two views of the Ear Shell Notohaliotis coccordiata [OBIS lists Notohaliotis as a synonym for Haliotis]. No. 5 is a Saucer, Pexocodakia rugifera. [OBIS lists this name as a synonym for Codakia (Codakia) rugifera]. No. 6 is the Common Austral Cockle Cardium racketii. No. 7 is a Venerid Notocallista disrupta [OBIS lists this name as a synonym for Callista (Notocallista) disrupta]. No. 8 is the Ear-drop or Kelp shell Phasianotrochus eximius, with operculum.