torpedo

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

a fish, well known elsewhere, andalso called elsewhere, the Numb-fish and Crampfish. For the Australian species, see quotation.

1882. Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, `Fish of New South Wales,'p. 100:

«Our Torpedo or Electric Ray is Hypnos subnigrum,that of Tasmania is Narcine Tasmaniensis.»

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