Animals - part 2 - sea life

[Ross Clark (FOA LING)]

blupela pis: 1. parrotfish (family Scaridae) (Allen & Swainston, 1992:
88-91) 2. Any blue-colored fish
Question: Most, but not all parrotfishes are blue!  Are the non-blue
parrotfishes still called blupela pis?

[Ross Clark (FOA LING)] Bislama "blufis" and various vernacular names in
Vanuatu appear to refer to this family of fishes generically by this colour
word -- of course whether this is true in Tok Pisin is an empirical question
for local research. 
 
pislama (from the Portuguese, "bicho do mar", literally "sea worm"): 1.
trepang, sea slug, bêche-de-mer (Holothuria spp.)  2. a sluggard (Tok Piksa)
(Mühlhäusler, 1979: 337)
[Ross Clark (FOA LING)] 
Not really directly from Portuguese, but via English "beach-la-mar".  



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