| 单词 | australian grayling | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasAustralian grayling  b.  Either of two fishes of the Australasian genus  Prototroctes (family  Retropinnidae), somewhat resembling  Thymallus:  P. maraena, of southern Australia (more fully  Australian grayling; also called cucumber mullet, native herring), and  P. oxyrhynchus (more fully  New Zealand grayling), now extinct. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > 			[noun]		 > prototroctes maraena grayling1857 cucumber mullet1880 1857    C. F. Hursthouse New Zealand I. 122  				A sort of grayling is taken in a few of the clearest rivers. 1859    Empire 		(Sydney)	 4 Aug. 6/4  				‘Any trout here?’ ‘I only know one species of salmon, and that is the Yarra grayling, commonly called herring, which take a fly, I believe.’ 1880    W. Senior Trav. & Trout in Antipodes 94  				The cucumber mullet..I have long expected to be a grayling. 1924    Otago Witness 		(Dunedin, N.Z.)	 8 July 9  				The Upokororo [stream]..was undoubtedly named after that beautiful, but now almost extinct fish, the New Zealand grayling. 1986    Canberra Times 25 May 5/7  				Fisheries inspectors at Eden have identified several small fish..as Australian Grayling or Cucumber herring. 2006    F. Prokop Austral. Fish Guide 		(ed. 3)	 i. 14  				The grayling is a relatively small species which has been greatly affected by the damming of coastal rivers. < as lemmas | 
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