toorjenong

Updated: May 9, 2025

The TOORJENONG grows to a large size, exceeding twenty pounds in weight. It is a gross feeder, and its flesh is hard and dry, but the head and sides are much prized by the natives, and the head of a large one makes tolerable soup. No. 45. "Rays, 9-16; A. 3-16; P. 14; V. 1-5." Caught by the hook, off Rocky Point, on the 17th of August, 1844. Good to eat. No. 1.

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

No. 23. Richardson Zool. Trans. 3, p. 102. Inhabits sandy beaches; is little known to the sealers. Caught in a net, 3rd March, 1841. No. 39. CHEILODACTYLUS CARPONEMUS. C. et V. 5. p. 362. Inhabits rocky shores. Some specimens weigh upwards of sixteen pounds. Caught by hook, 17th May, 1841. No. 42. CHEILODACTYLUS. Native name TOORJENONG. "Black Jew-fish" of the sealers.

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