bastard trumpeter

Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

a fish. See morwong, paper-fish, and trumpeter.

In Sydney it is Latris ciliaris, Forst., which is called Moki inNew Zealand; in Victoria and Tasmania, L. forsteri,Casteln.

1883. `Royal Commission on the Fisheries of Tasmania,' p. 35:

«The bastard trumpeter ( Latris Forsteri). . . .Scarcelyinferior to the real trumpeter, and superior to it in abundanceall the year round, comes the bastard trumpeter. . . This fishhas hitherto been confounded with Latris ciliaris(Forst.); but, although the latter species has been reported asexisting in Tasmanian waters, it is most probably a mistake:for the two varieties (the red and the white), found in suchabundance here, have the general characters as shownabove. . . They must be referred to the Latris Forsteriof Count Castelnau, which appears to be the bastard trumpeterof Victorian waters.»

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