sooty grunter / black bream

Scientific Name
Hephaestus fuliginosus
Category
Fish

A thick-set fish with an olive to dark grey body, juveniles with black rear dorsal and anal fins. A large mouth and long single dorsal fin. Complete lip fold across the chin.

Various names across the dialect chain, many shared—narrud (Kunwinjku), durnbuhmanj (Kuninjku), kalarrk (Gundjeihmi) and nakerdmi (Kunwinjku and Kundjeyhmi)

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Kunwinjku term
narrud
Kundjeyhmi term
nakerdmi, kalarrk
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Kuninjku term
dunbuhmanj
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Kune/Mayali term
dunbuhmanj
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Kundedjnjenghmi term
nakerdmi
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