Nembe Fish Names Roger Blench & Martin Walsh 27 December 2006
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Nembe fish names Roger Blench & Martin Walsh 27 December 2006 Sources: Kaliai 1966; Richard Freeman English and scientific names follow Froese & Pauly 2006 (FishBase), with additional information from Schneider 1990 (FAO). indí fish in general abadí-ítuburu mojarra sp. Gerres sp. abáka-ikuli sleeper sp. family Eleotridae. Mispronounced form of abása-ikuli ábaná mudfish or barreto; conger eel Clarias spp.; family Congridae abaraká, mullet sp. family Mugilidae. cf. akúrọ, abaraká-ịdẹgé bụọbakalamọ, gbulu, ịdẹgé, móngịnị abása-ikuli sleeper sp. (‘flat-headed family Eleotridae. Mispronounced as sleeper’) abáka-ikuli. cf. ikúli aba aba, a freshwater fish Gymnarchus niloticus abaládowei a cyprinid fish Leptocypris niloticus variety ábịbịnyanáídeiburufịgha small-mouthed fish; family Mormyridae. lit. 'I have no mouth to elephantfishes eat my husband's food' adi a tilapiine fish sp. family Cichlidae. cf. atán, elekéti, ịtabalá, ọkpọtụba afarụ Madeiran sardinella, when Sardinella maderensis. = ikerere. cf. small búza, gbódo, kigbo, kparakpará agbára snapper in general (‘adult Lutjanus spp. Four common species are snapper’) known: kesi agbará, kéụn agbara, kokoin agbará, séún agbara ágbagúrụ snake-head Parachanna obscura. = mumbeí, okobia akata saddled bichir Polypterus endlicheri endlicheri akúrọ mullet sp. (‘the hard-scaled family Mugilidae. = akúrọ-ịdẹgé. cf. mullet’) abaraká, bụọbakalamọ, gbulu, móngịnị akúrọ-ịdẹgé mullet sp. family Mugilidae. = akúrọ. cf. ịdẹgé alapụ-indí tonguesole spp. family Cynoglossidae. lit. ‘chief of fish’ amgbakúrọ (okoroba) small okoróba fish Tilapia sp. amgbóko mudskipper family Gobiidae, subfamily Oxudercinae. cf. ịtíla anyín catfish spp. African butter catfish, Schilbe mystus; catfish sp., Parailia congica asalasa unidentified fish sp. atán cichlid sp. family Cichlidae. cf. adi, elekéti, ịtabalá, ọkpọtụba azán fish sp. resembling herring balá West African ilisha Ilisha africana. cf. ikpókpo (‘Cameroon sardine or shade’) búza Madeiran sardinella Sardinella maderensis. = gbódo, kigbo. cf. afarụ, ikerere, kparakpará béribéri hammerhead Sphyrna spp. bịbịpẹịghá blackchin guitarfish Rhinobatos cemiculus. cf. ẹgbẹịnbịbịpẹịgha bólia dolphin; dolphinfish family Delphinidae [aquatic mammals, not fish]; Coryphaena sp. boú-ịdẹgẹ, barbel Barbus sp. lit. ‘bush-mullet’. cf. ịdẹgé bou-ídẹgẹ bọkọ largehead hairtail; ribbonfish Trichiurus lepturus; family Trachipteridae búgumína, toadfish family Batrachoididae bugụmína buru-éperi moon fish Citharinus sp. bụọbakalamọ mullet sp. family Mugilidae. cf. abaraká, akúrọ, gbulu, ịdẹgé, móngịnị bụra semutundu (a kind of catfish) Bagrus docmac dowéi a cyprinid fish; ladyfish Leptocypris niloticus; ? Elops sp. dowoi tarpon Megalops atlanticus dọrọ barracuda Sphyraena spp. cf. mindi-ógboro, ogborokílo ébieséni West African lungfish Protopterus annectens ebegu unidentified large catfish sp. order Siluriformes ekué jack; horse mackerel family Carangidae. cf. sọkọ-ekué elekéti cichlid sp. family Cichlidae. cf. adi, atán, ịtabalá, ọkpọtụba elepein Niger hind Cephalopholis nigri enumetandị tailspot ctenopoma; described Ctenopoma kingsleyae. = ọdịa as a freshwater catfish that climbs palm trees to eat the fruits epelépele razorfish Xyrichthys sp. cf. pẹmbụ erému greater soapfish (‘the mother Rypticus saponaceus soapfish’) eweri grass-eater Distichodus rostratus ébẹtórụ unidentified fish sp. ẹbẹlúbẹlụ flatfish, e.g. dab or flounder; order Pleuronectiformes (flatfish); order larger kinds are halibut, Rajiformes turbot; also loosely applied to small rays and skates ẹdégẹrẹ unidentified fish sp. ẹgélẹụ grunt spp. family Haemulidae ẹgụrụba small fry of tilapiine fish family Cichlidae. cf. okoróba ẹgbẹịn spotted eagle ray Aetobatus narinari ẹgbẹịnbịbịpẹịgha white-spotted guitarfish Rhinobatos albomaculatus. cf. bịbịpẹịghá ẹkpẹrúkpẹrụ small fry of mullet family Mugilidae. cf. ịdẹgé, ịyagụ, ózọlólị ẹlẹgẹlé catfish sp. found only in ponds Clarias sp. ẹpétẹ small specimen of ọfọụ, a Citharinus latus. cf. ọfọụ freshwater fish gbengu sea catfish sp. Arius sp. cf. ịsịngí, nẹgú, nẹngú, ọtíọ, sịngí gbódo Madeiran sardinella Sardinella maderensis = búza, kigbo. cf. afarụ, ikerere, kparakpará gbụú croaker family Sciaenidae gbulu, mullet sp. with a rounded head family Mugilidae. cf. abaraká, akúrọ, gbulu-ịdẹgẹ bụọbakalamọ, ịdẹgẹ, móngịnị mullet sp. with a rounded head family Mugilidae. = gbulu. cf. ibelúbelu small fry of fish (in general?) cf. isongu ibubu globe fish Tetraodon lineatus igbékere sleeper sp. (‘hard-scaled family Eleotridae sleeper’) ikerere small fry of Madeiran Sardinella maderensis, = afarụ. cf. búza, sardinella gbódo, kparakpará, kigbo ikolokoló characin sp. order Characiformes. cf. ịságụ, ọkpaịn ikúli sleeper sp. (‘mangrove family Eleotridae. cf. abása-ikuli sleeper’) ikpékere unidentified fish sp. ikpókpo small fry of West African Ilisha africana. cf. balá ilisha indomina nụngala sleeper sp. (‘little sleeper’) family Eleotridae isongu small fry of fish (in general?) cf. ibelúbelu, ịndá-isongu ítuburú flagfin mojarra Eucinostomus melanopterus ịdẹgé mullet in general family Mugilidae. cf. abaraká, abaraká- ịdẹgé, akúrọ, akúrọ-ịdẹgé, boú-ịdẹgẹ bụọbakalamọ, ẹkpẹrúkpẹrụ, gbulu, gbulu-ịdẹgẹ, móngịnị, ózọlólị ịdẹgé-ịyagụ small fry of mullet family Mugilidae. cf. ịyagụ ịkụtúkụtụ small specimen of horse family Carangidae. cf. mọrọn, pélia mackerel ịndá royal threadfin (‘young shiny Pentanemus quinquarius nose’; ‘adult shiny nose’) ịndábara giant African threadfin Polydactilis quadrifilis ịndábutu, lesser African threadfin Galeoides decadactylus ịndá ebutu (‘golden threadfish or shiny nose’) ịndá-isongu, European anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus. cf. isongu ịnda-ísongu ịndányingi threadfin sp. family Polynemidae ịságụ characin sp. order Characiformes. cf. ikolokoló, ọkpaịn ịsịngí large kind of ọtíọ, a sea Arius sp. = sịngí. cf. gbengu, nẹgú, nẹngú catfish (‘real grown catfish’; ‘second-stage catfish’; ‘young type catfish’) ịtabalá blackchin tilapia; spotted Sarotheradon melanotheron melanotheron; tilapia; redbelly tilapia; and Tilapia mariae; Tilapia zillii; and other other cichlid or tilapiine fish family Cichlidae. cf. adi, atán, elekéti, sp. (‘river tilapia’) ọkpọtụba ịtíla mudskipper Periophthalmus spp. cf. amgbóko ịtụfụrú snapper sp. which feeds on Lutjanus sp. crabs ịyagụ small fry of fish, esp. mullet e.g. family Mugilidae. cf. ịdẹgé-ịyagụ kabí tiger fish (‘king of fish’) Hydrocynus vittatus kala erému soapfish sp. (‘small soapfish’) ? Rypticus subbifrenatus. cf. erému kesi agbará snapper sp. Lutjanus sp. cf. agbára kéụn, African red snapper Lutjanus agennes. cf. agbára kéụn agbara kigbo Madeiran sardinella Sardinella maderensis = búza, gbódo. cf. afarụ, ikerere, kparakpará kingirímangígha largest type of ray order Rajiformes kịna Nile perch Lates niloticus kókoin snapper sp. Lutjanus sp. kokoin agbará snapper sp. Lutjanus sp. cf. agbára kúgain unidentified fish sp. (‘he-goat ? family Mullidae fish’) kúgala spadefish Chaetodipterus spp. kpapúpẹle unidentified sea fish sp. kparakpará Madeiran sardinella, at a Sardinella maderensis. cf. afarụ, búza, certain stage of development gbódo, ikerere, kigbo mindí-agbọpẹlẹbó, sea horse Hippocampus spp. mindí-agbọpẹlẹbọ mindí-apụn unidentified fish sp. resembling roundworm mindi-élẹgẹlẹ large catfish sp. found in order Siluriformes streams mindi-óbolịa snake eel sp. (‘striped snake family Ophichthidae; family Muraenidae. eel’); moray eel (‘moray or cf. ongorí painted eel’) mindi-ófoni flyingfish; butterfly ray family Exocoetidae; Gymnura spp. mindi-ógboro barracuda Sphyraena spp. cf. dọrọ, ogborokílo mọrọn horse mackerel family Carangidae. cf. ịkụtúkụtụ, pélia móngị dolphinfish; West African Coryphaena sp.; Elops lacerta ladyfish móngịnị mullet sp. (‘the soft-scaled family Mugilidae. cf. abaraká, akúrọ, mullet’) bụọbakalamọ, gbulu, ịdẹgé, tunwan mumbeí snake-head Parachanna obscura. = ágbagúrụ, okobia nẹgú sea catfish sp. (‘the smallest Arius sp. cf. gbengu, ịsịngí, nẹngú, ọtíọ, sea catfish’) sịngí nẹngú sea catfish sp. (‘the real sea Arius sp. cf. gbengu, ịsịngí, nẹgú, catfish’; ‘long-snouted sea ọtíọ, sịngí catfish’; ‘rigid sea catfish’) ofo African moony; angelfish Monodactylus sebae; family Pomacanthidae ogúnuwarị snapper sp. Lutjanus sp. cf. agbára ogbolo heterotis Heterotis niloticus ogborokílo barracuda Sphyraena spp. cf. dọrọ, mindi-ógboro óki sawfish Pristis spp. okobia snake-head Parachanna obscura. = ágbagúrụ, mumbeí okoróba small tilapiine fish family Cichlidae. cf. ẹgụrụba ókoróngo meagre (‘meagre drum sp.’); Argyrosomus regius; Umbrina spp. drum okpómina giant sea catfish (‘broad- Arius gigas headed sea catfish’) olókosịngị catfish sp., described as sickly order Siluriformes and emaciated with a big head and hollow and flabby sides ongorí snake eel sp. family Ophichthidae. cf. mindi-óbolịa osisi snapper sp.; ? pigsnout grunt Lutjanus sp.;? Pomadasys rogerii. cf. (‘pigfish’) agbára ọbórụ unidentified freshwater fish sp. ọdịa tailspot ctenopoma Ctenopoma kingsleyae. = enumetandị ọfịrịma shark and dogfish spp. order Squaliformes, incl. Galeocerdo (‘slender, long-nosed shark’; cuvier ‘long-nosed shark’), incl. tiger shark ọfọụ large specimen of ẹpẹtẹ, a Citharinus latus. cf. ẹpẹtẹ freshwater fish ọkpáịn characin sp. order Characiformes. cf. ikolokoló, ịságụ ọkpọkókpọkọ bubu, a freshwater catfish Auchenoglanis occidentalis reputed to move supinely ọkpọtụba cichlid sp. family Cichlidae. cf. adi, atán, elekéti, ịtabalá ọná meagre (‘meagre drum’; Argyrosomus regius ‘croaker or large-mouth’; ‘sea croaker’) ọna geelbeck croaker (‘small- Atractoscion