oysterfish - meaning and definition. What is oysterfish
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What (who) is oysterfish - definition

SPECIES OF WRASSE
Tautoga onitis; Black porgy; Oysterfish; Oyster-fish; Oyster fish; Tautoga (fish)
  • An 1860 watercolor painting of a tautog from the [[Massachusetts Bay]] by Jacques Burkhardt

tautog         
[t?:'t?g]
¦ noun a greyish-olive edible wrasse (fish) found off the Atlantic coast of North America. [Tautoga onitis.]
Origin
C17: from Narragansett tautauog, plural of taut.
tautog         
n.
[Written also Tautaug.] Black-fish (Labrus Americanus).
Tautog         
·noun An edible labroid fish (Haitula onitis, or Tautoga onitis) of the Atlantic coast of the United States. When adult it is nearly black, more or less irregularly barred, with greenish gray. Called also blackfish, oyster fish, salt-water chub, and moll.

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Tautog

The tautog (Tautoga onitis), also known as the blackfish, is a species of wrasse native to the western Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to South Carolina. This species inhabits hard substrate habitats in inshore waters at depths from 1 to 75 m (5 to 245 ft). It is currently the only known member of its genus.

Barlett (1848) wrote, "[Tautaug] is a Native American word, and may be found in Roger Williams' Key to the Indian Language." The name is from the Narragansett language, originally tautauog (pl. of taut). It is also called a "black porgy" (cf. Japanese black porgy), "chub" (cf. the freshwater chub), "oyster-fish" (in North Carolina) or "blackfish" (in New York/New Jersey, New England).