单词 | new zealand grayling |
释义 | > as lemmasNew Zealand grayling b. Either of two fishes of the Australasian genus Prototroctes (family Retropinnidae), somewhat resembling Thymallus: P. maraena, of southern Australia (more fully Australian grayling; also called cucumber mullet, native herring), and P. oxyrhynchus (more fully New Zealand grayling), now extinct. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > prototroctes maraena grayling1857 cucumber mullet1880 1857 C. F. Hursthouse New Zealand I. 122 A sort of grayling is taken in a few of the clearest rivers. 1859 Empire (Sydney) 4 Aug. 6/4 ‘Any trout here?’ ‘I only know one species of salmon, and that is the Yarra grayling, commonly called herring, which take a fly, I believe.’ 1880 W. Senior Trav. & Trout in Antipodes 94 The cucumber mullet..I have long expected to be a grayling. 1924 Otago Witness (Dunedin, N.Z.) 8 July 9 The Upokororo [stream]..was undoubtedly named after that beautiful, but now almost extinct fish, the New Zealand grayling. 1986 Canberra Times 25 May 5/7 Fisheries inspectors at Eden have identified several small fish..as Australian Grayling or Cucumber herring. 2006 F. Prokop Austral. Fish Guide (ed. 3) i. 14 The grayling is a relatively small species which has been greatly affected by the damming of coastal rivers. < as lemmas |
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