The English names of many species of fish vary quite a bit, even within one country such as Australia. For most of the species listed in Appendix 1, I have used the English names given by Randall et al. For species not included in Randall et al. Similar data are also presented for marine mammals, reptiles, commonly-used invertebrates, and some important plants. The list includes a small number of Nggela taxa that I was unable to identify.
Some scientific species correspond to more than one folk taxon.
In some cases these folk taxa could be regarded as sub-taxa, since they were usually acknowledged to simply be different growth stages of the same Nggela 'species'. In general, splitting of taxa was more common for species that were commonly used, whereas fish that were of relatively little economic importance tended to be 'lumped' together. While Nggela primary lexemes sometimes roughly correspond to scientific genera, and secondary lexemes to scientific species, this is certainly not the rule. However, a larger number of West Nggela fish taxa correspond to more than one scientific species. Mostly these multiple correspondences are limited to similar looking fish within one scientific family, but ten West Nggela taxa correspond to two or more species which belong to different scientific families.