chaetodon

Updated: June 17, 2025

It is common on all the rocky inlets of the coast of New Holland, extending down the eastern shores to Sidney. No. 41. CHAETODON SEXFASCIUTUS. Richardson Ann. of Nat. Hist. Native name KNELOCK. Inhabits rocky places. Not common. No. 40. CHAETODON. Native name MITCHEBULLER or METYEBULLAR. Teeth very minute. Inhabits rocky places. Speared by Warrawar, on the 27th of May, 1841. No. 27.2.

Edward John Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete

CHAETODON. Native name WAMEL or WAMLE. "Rays, D. 10-20; A. 3-17." No. 6. PLATAX? Native names, TEUTUEK or KARLOCK, from the shape of the fins, also MUDEUR. "Striped sweep" of the sealers, and Pomfret of the settlers. Teeth small. Very common on rocky shores. Is a gross feeder; but good to eat. Caught by a hook on the 12th of March, 1841.

Edward John Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete

The king of Spain styles them in his public acts, "his dear, noble, and loyal Guayquerias." The Indians of the two canoes we had met had left the port of Cumana during the night. They gave us some fresh cocoa-nuts, and very beautifully coloured fish of the Chaetodon genus. What riches to our eyes were contained in the canoes of these poor Indians!

Alexander von Humboldt - Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1