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Local Names of Fishes in the Visayas

The labour of Conlu gives an enormous slate of Philippine fishes with townsperson names but it does not itemize the partilucar area. For admonition the dalag, Ophicephalus striatus Bloch. It says: Haruan, Haluan (V). with these village names, you can never be definite which territory in the Visayas this fish is called Haluan or Haruan. Is this Cebuano, Hiligaynon, Kinaray-a, Boholano, Waray, or Aklanon? The calling by Rao and Rao gives us the neighbourhood names only in the Key Visayas areas. Herre is civil in compass...

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