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barramundi
Sep. 26th, 2023 07:32 ambarramundi (bar-uh-MUHN-dee) - n., a catadromous bony fish (Lates calcarifer) with a greenish-bronze back and silvery sides of the Indian and West Pacific Oceans.
Valued as a sport and food fish, also called Asian sea bass or giant sea perch. Catadromous means it's a freshwater fish that goes to salt water to spawn (the reverse of the anadromous salmon). Not to be confused with the barramunda, another name for the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri). The name (for both fish, actually) comes from an indigenous language of central Queensland, but exactly which cannot be determined.
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---L.
Valued as a sport and food fish, also called Asian sea bass or giant sea perch. Catadromous means it's a freshwater fish that goes to salt water to spawn (the reverse of the anadromous salmon). Not to be confused with the barramunda, another name for the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus forsteri). The name (for both fish, actually) comes from an indigenous language of central Queensland, but exactly which cannot be determined.
Thanks, WikiMedia!
---L.
