aboriginal name for a fishof New South Wales, Plectropoma ocellatum, Gunth.
1884. E. P. Ramsav. `Fisheries Exhibition Literature,'vol. v. p. 311:
«Another of the Percidae . . . the wirrah of thefishermen, is more plentiful. It is when first caught ahandsome fish, of a pale olive-brown or olive-green colour,with numerous bright blue dots on spots of a lighter tint.»