sooty grunter

English

Noun

sooty grunter (plural sooty grunters)

A freshwater fish of species Hephaestus fuliginosus, of coastal northern Australia.
- 2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Giramondo, published 2012, page 169:
  The other fish Will expected could be hooked, perhaps, a few reasonable-sized freshwater sooty grunter, rifle fish or bream, if the boat was in the main water arteries coming up to the coast from the spring-fed river systems.

References

sooty grunter on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Hephaestus fuliginosus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Hephaestus fuliginosus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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