Sweetlips
inyalkpa wurrut���noun. a medium sized trevally, smaller than wurrut but larger than rlunguran. Caranx ignobilis and others. See:�Mungkulurrut�‘Golden Trevally’; wurrut�‘trevally (generic), a large Trevally’; rlunguran�‘a small Trevally’; mangali�‘Scad, small Trevally’. Category:�Sweetlips.
rlunguran���noun. Diamond Trevally, Epaulet trevally and other small trevallies. Carangoides chrysophrys, Carangoides humerosus. See:�wurrut�‘a large Trevally’; inyalkpa wurrut�‘Medium sized Trevally’; rlunturran�‘stingray type’. Category:�Sweetlips.
mangali���noun. Scad, small Trevally. Syn:�mungkulurrut. See:�inyalkpa wurrut�‘Medium sized Trevally’; Wurrut�‘Trevally (generic)’. Category:�Sweetlips.
martali���noun. 1�•�Sea Perches and Tropical Snappers (generic). Includes Sweetlips (grunts), Fusiliers, Emperors and Jobfishes. Lutjanus spp., Haemulidae spp., Caesionidae spp., Lethrinus spp., Aprion spp.. See:�yarri�‘Sea Perch’; Inarrka�‘Sea Perches Lutjanus species, Lethrinus lentjan’; impurrk�‘Striped Sea Perch’. Category:�Fish.
2�•�Red Emperor, Other big red coral-reef seaperches. Lutjanus sebae, Lutjanus erythropterus. Category:�Sweetlips.
3�•�Mangrove Jack. Lutjanus argentimaculatus. Category:�Fish.
4�•�Blacktail snapper. Lutjanus fulvus. Variant:�Iwaidja: Mardali. See:�inyparl�‘turtle hunting ground’. Category:�Fish.
mirrk���noun. Dart or Golden Trevally. Trachinotus russelli, blochi or Gnathanodon speciosus. See:�ngarlawi�‘Golden Trevally’. Category:�Sweetlips. Anth: In earlier times young men were not allowed to eat this fish because it was 'too strong', it might knock them down.
ngarlawi2���noun. Golden Trevally. Gnathanodon speciosus.. See:�mungkulurrut�‘Golden Trevally (possible)’; Wurrut�‘Trevally (generic)’; Mirrk�‘Golden Trevally’. Category:�Sweetlips.
wururi���noun. 1�•� Ikaman la wururi ja nuwuran mawuruwuj la marrnguny. ‘The freshwater catfish and herring live in the fresh water and eels too.’ See:�mankuparl�‘herring found in sea’. Category:�Herring.
2�•�Oxeye Herring. Megalops cyprinoides (Megalopidae). Category:�Herring.
3�•�Fringe-finned Trevally, Small mouth scad. Absalom radiatus, Alepes sp.. Category:�Sweetlips.
wurrut���noun. 1�•�trevally (generic), Family Carangidae. See:�inyalkpa wurrut�‘a medium Trevally’; rlunguran�‘a small Trevally’; ngarlawi�‘Golden Trevally’; mungkulurrut�‘Golden Trevally, Gold-spotted Trevally’; mangali�‘Scad, small Trevally’. Category:�Sweetlips. Anth: In the Marriyuwi Mamurrng they dance as wurrut and paint it on their bodies.
2�•�a large Trevally such as Giant Trevally, Blue Trevally or Bludger Trevally. Caranx ignobilis, Carangoides ferdau, Carangoides gymnostethus. Variant:�Iwaidja: Wurrut. See:�alapanja�‘Batfish’; rlunguran�‘Diamond Trevally and other small trevallies’. Category:�Sweetlips.
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