perch

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

n.


This English fish-name is appliedwith various epithets to many fishes in Australia, some of thetrue family Percidae, others of quite differentfamilies. These fishes have, moreover, other names attached tothem in different localities. See Black Perch, Fresh-water P., Golden P., Magpie P., Murray P., Pearl P., Red P., Red GurnetP., Rock P., Sea P., Parrot Fish, Poddly, Burramundi, Mado, and BidyanRuffe.

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'p. 31:

« Lates colonorum, the perch of the colonists . . ,really a fresh-water fish, but . . . often brought to theSydney market from Broken Bay and other salt-waterestuaries. . . . The perch of the Ganges and other East Indianrivers ( L. calcarifer) enters freely into brackishwater, and extends to the rivers of Queensland.»

[See Burramundi. L. colonorum is called the Gippsland Perch, in Victoria.]

1882. Ibid. p. 45:

«The other genus ( Chilodactylus) is also largelyrepresented in Tasmania and Victoria, one species beingcommonly imported from Hobart Town in a smoked and dried stateunder the name of `perch.'»

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

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