koode

Updated: May 16, 2025

One small lobe in the gills, about the size of a pin's head; no other perceptible opening. Caught at the mouth of Oyster Harbour, 16th August, 1841. No. 56. OSTRACIAN FLAVIGASTER, Gray. Richardson, Zool. Trans. 3. p. 164, p. 11, f. 1. Native name, CONDE or KOODE. "Rays, D. 10; A. 9; P. 11, etc." This fish is not eaten by the natives, who abhor it.

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