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s nebulosa</i>, Quoy, family <i>Teuthididae</i> (a New South Wales fish). Mackerel T. (so called in Tasmania)-- <i>Neptonemus dobula</i>, Gunth., family <i>Carangidae</i>. Silver T.-- Another Tasmanian name for the White Trevally, <i>Caranx georgianus</i> (see below). Snotgall T.-- <i>Neptonemus travale</i>, Casteln. (in Victoria); <i>N. brama</i>, Gunth. in Tasmania); both of the family of <i>Carangidae</i>. White T.-- <i>Caranx georgianus</i>, Cuv. and Val., family <i>Carangidae</i>; (so called in New South Wales, New Zealand, and Tasmania; in Victoria it is called <i>Silver Bream</i>). <i>Teuthis javus</i>, Linn., family <i>Tuethididae</i>. The Maori name for the <i>Trevally</i> is <i>Awara</i>, and in Auckland it is sometimes called the <i>Yellow-Tail</i> (q.v.). See also quotation, 1886. Guenther says, the genus <i>Teuthis</i> 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." <hw>Triantelope</hw>, <i>n</i>. a European comic variation of the scientific name <i>Tarantula</i>. It is applied in Australia to a spider belonging to a quite different genus, <i>Voconia</i>, 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 <i>tri-antelope</i>, as the common people persist in calling it." <hw>Tribonyx</hw>, <i>n</i>. There are severa
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