kegetuck

Updated: May 28, 2025

Specimen two feet and a half long. Inhabits rocky shores, and is very sluggish; it does not grow to a very large size. Caught by hook, 6th April, 1841. No. 38. UROLOPHUS. Native name, KEGETUCK or BEBIL. "Young sting-ray" of the sealers. Caught by seine, 4th May, 1841. No. 28. Near PLATYRHINA. Native name, PARETT. "Fiddler" of the sealers; Green skate of the settlers.

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