black rock-cod

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

n.


an Australian fish, chieflyof New South Wales, Serranus daemeli, Gunth.; adifferent fish from the Rock-Cod of the northernhemisphere. The Serrani belong to the family Percidae,and are commonly called «Sea-perches.»

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'p. 33:

«The genus Serranus comprises most of the fishes knownas `rock cod.'. . . One only is sufficiently useful as anarticle of food to merit notice, and that is the `black rockcod' ( Serranus damelii, Guenther), without exception thevery best of all our fishes.»

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