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Pakirikiri. See Blue-cod. New Zealand. 
Pall. See Lancelet. 
Paradise-fish. Polyacanthus viridi-awratus. Indian Archipelago. 
Parr. Young salmon. 
Parrot-fish. Various species of Scarus. North Atlantic. In 
Australia, Pseudoscarus. 
Parrot-wrasse. Same as above. ; 
Parrot-perch. In Australian tropics. Pseudoscarus. 
Patiki. Rhombosolea monopus. New Zealand. 
Peal. Salmo cambricus, and young of S. salar. 
Pelerin. Selache maximus. Northern seas. 
Perch. In Britain. Perea fluviatilis; in New South Wales, Lates 
colonorum ; in Victoria, species of Otenolates. 
Pesce rey. Atherinichthys laticlavia. Chili. | 
Pickerell. In North America, species of Pike, Hsow. 
Pig-fish. In Sydney. Cossyphus unimaculatus. 
Piharau. Lampreys. New Zealand. 
Pike. In Britain, Hsox luctus, which is the name for the American 
species. In Sydney, Sphyrena obtusata and Lannioperea. 
Pike-perch. Lucioperca zandra, f.w., Europe. 
Pilchard. Olupea pilchardus, Britain. Clupea sagax. New Zealand. 
Pilot-fish. Naucrates ductor. 
Pipe-fish. Species of Syngnathus. 
Piper. Triglalyra. Britain. 
Plaice. Pleuronectes platessa. 
Pla-kat. See Fighting-fish. 
Pocket-fish. See Angler. 
Pogge. See Hard-head. 
Pohaiakaroa, Sebastes percoides. N. Zealand. 
Pollack. Gadus pollachius. N. Seas. 
Pollan. Ooregonus pollan, f.w. Ireland, 
Polwig. Fry of Goby. 
Pope. <Acerina cernua, f.w. N. Europe. 
Porbeagle. Zamna cornubica, a shark. N. Seas. 
Porgy. See Mishcup. 
Port Jackson shark, species of Heterodentus. 
Pout. See Bib. 
Powan or powen. See Gwyniad. 
Pride. A Lamprey. Petromyzon branchialus. 
Prussian carp. See Crucian carp. 
Pundy. See Murray-cod. 
Pumpkin-seed. See Sunny. ao 
Rabbit-fish. See King of the herrings. 
Ray. The name applied to the Division Barorprz, of the Order 
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Red-dace. Leuciscus leuciscus. Britain. 
Red-eye. Leuciscus erythrophthalmus. Europe. 
Red-fin. See above, also LZ. cornutus. N. America, fw. 
Red-flathead. Platycephalus bassensis. Australia. 
Red-gurnard. See Kumu-kwmu. In Melbourne, Sebastes percoides 
also Red Rock-gurnard. 
