a New Zealand and Australian fish, Sebastes percoides, Richards.; called in Victoria Red-Gurnet Perch. The name is applied in Englandto a different fish.
1872. Hutton and Hector, `Fishes of New Zealand,' p. 108:
«The pohuia-karou is the proper sea-perch of these waters,that name having been applied by mistake to a small wrasse,which is generally called the spotty or poddly.»