s nebulosa, Quoy, family Teuthididae
(a New South Wales fish).
Mackerel T. (so called in Tasmania)--
Neptonemus dobula, Gunth., family Carangidae.
Silver T.--
Another Tasmanian name for the White Trevally, Caranx
georgianus (see below).
Snotgall T.--
Neptonemus travale, Casteln. (in Victoria);
N. brama, Gunth. in Tasmania); both of the family
of Carangidae.
White T.--
Caranx georgianus, Cuv. and Val., family
Carangidae; (so called in New South Wales, New Zealand,
and Tasmania; in Victoria it is called Silver Bream).
Teuthis javus, Linn., family Tuethididae.
The Maori name for the Trevally is Awara,
and in Auckland it is sometimes called the Yellow-Tail
(q.v.). See also quotation, 1886.
Guenther says, the genus Teuthis is readily recognised
by the peculiar structure of the ventral fins, which have an
outer and an inner spine and three soft rays between.
1769. `Capt. Cook's Journal' (edition Wharton, 1893), p. 164:
"Several canoes came off to the ship, and two or three of them
sold us some fish--cavallys as they are called--which occasioned
my giving the Islands the same name."
1886. R. A. Sherrin, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 99:
"Dr. Hector says: `The trevalli is the arara of the Maoris, or
the trevalli or cavalli of the fishermen . . . In Auckland it
is sometimes called the yellow-tail, but this name appears to
be also used for the king-fish. The fish known as trevalli in
the Dunedin market is a different fish, allied to the
warehou.'"
1890. `Victorian Statutes--Fisheries Act' (Second Schedule):
"Travale."
Triantelope, n. a European comic variation of
the scientific name Tarantula. It is applied in
Australia to a spider belonging to a quite different genus,
Voconia, a perfectly harmless spider, though popularly
supposed to be poisonous. It has powerful mandibles, but will
attack nobody unless itself attacked.
1846. C. P. Hodgson, `Reminiscences of Australia,' p. 173:
"The tarantulas, or `triantelopes,' as the men call them, are
large, ugly spiders, very venomous."
1860. A Lady, `My Experiences in Australia,' p. 151:
"There is no lack of spiders either, of all sorts and sizes, up
to the large tarantula, or tri-antelope, as the common
people persist in calling it."
Tribonyx, n. There are severa
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