mountain-trout

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

n. species of Galaxias,small cylindrical fishes inhabiting the colder rivers ofAustralasia, Southern Chili, Magellan Straits, and the FalklandIslands. On account of the distribution of these fish and ofother forms of animals, it has been suggested that in a remotegeological period the area of land above the level of the seain the antarctic regions must have been sufficiently extendedto admit of some kind of continuity across the whole width ofthe Pacific between the southern extremities of South Americaand Australia.

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