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42 .-- CHEILODACTYLUS.

Native name TOORJENONG.

"Black Jew-fish" of the sealers.

"Rays, D.16-26; A.2-10; P.13; V.5." Inhabits rocky points of sandy bays, where they love to run in and root up the sand with their fleshy mouths.

They are sluggish, and easily speared by the Aborigines, whose chief food it constitutes at certain seasons.


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