barramundin.
/barəˈmʌndi/, U.S. /ˌbɛrəˈməndi/, Australian English /bærəˈmʌndi/ Australian.
Any of various chiefly freshwater fishes; (now) spec. the Asian seabass, Lates calcarifer.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Serranidae (sea-bass) > [noun] > member of genus Lates (Nile perch)
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > [noun] > order Dipnoi > group Sirenoidei > genus Ceratodus > member of
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > subclass Actinopterygii > superorder Osteoglossomorpha (bonytongues) > [noun] > order Osteoglossiformes > member of (barramundi)
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1873 A. Trollope Austral. & N.Z. I. xi. 189 There is a fish too at Rockhampton called the Burra Mundi,—I hope I spell the name rightly,—which is very commendable.
1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 357 Two species, C[eratodus] forsteri and C. miolepis, are known from fresh waters of Queensland... The aborigines [call it] ‘Barramunda’, a name which they appear to apply also to other large-scaled freshwater fishes, as the Osteoglossum leichardti.
1898 E. E. Morris Austral Eng. 67/2 Burramundi or Barramunda..is also incorrectly applied by the colonists to the large tidal perch of the Fitzroy River, Queensland, Lates calcarifer, Günth., a widely distributed fish in the East Indies.
1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Barramundi.
1930 E. R. B. Gribble Forty Years with Aborigines xvi. 165 John left at once,..returning in the evening with a fine barramundi.
1938 Bulletin (Sydney) 6 Dec. 21/2 The waters teem with barramundi (king of Australian fishes).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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