Austral English / A dictionary of Australasian words, phrases and usages with those aboriginal-Australian and Maori words which have become incorporated in the language, and the commoner scientific words that have had their origin in Australasia

by Edward Ellis Morris

The different kinds are—

Black Trevally— <i>Teuthis nebulosa</i>, Quoy, family <i>Teuthididae</i> (a New South Wales fish).

Mackerel T. (so called in Tasmania)— <i>Neptonemus dobula</i>, Gunth., family <i>Carangidae</i>.

Silver T.— Another Tasmanian name for the White Trevally, <i>Caranx georgianus</i> (see below).

Snotgall T.—
<i>Neptonemus travale</i>, Casteln. (in Victoria);
<i>N. brama</i>, Gunth. in Tasmania); both of the family
of <i>Carangidae</i>.

White T.— <i>Caranx georgianus</i>, Cuv. and Val., family <i>Carangidae</i>; (so called in New South Wales, New Zealand, and Tasmania; in Victoria it is called <i>Silver Bream</i>). <i>Teuthis javus</i>, Linn., family <i>Tuethididae</i>.

The Maori name for the <i>Trevally</i> is <i>Awara</i>, and in Auckland it is sometimes called the <i>Yellow-Tail</i> (q.v.). See also quotation, 1886.

Guenther says, the genus <i>Teuthis</i> is readily recognised by the peculiar structure of the ventral fins, which have an outer and an inner spine and three soft rays between.

1769. `Capt. Cook's Journal' (edition Wharton, 1893), p. 164:

"Several canoes came off to the ship, and two or three of them sold us some fish—cavallys as they are called—which occasioned my giving the Islands the same name."