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

n.


a marine fish of the Australian coasts, called by this name in Sydney. It is Scorpisaequipinnis, Richards., family Squamipinnes.This family has the soft, and frequently also the spinous,part of their dorsal and anal fins so thickly covered with scales,that the boundary between fins and body is entirely obliterated. S. aequippinnis is possibly the Light-horseman (q.v.) of early Australian writers.

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