Also -valley, -valli, -valla, travelley, -vale. [Supposed to be an alteration of CAVALLY.] A name applied in Australasia to several sea-fishes, mostly of the family Carangidæ or Horse-Mackerels.
Six species of Caranx, Neptonemus, and Teuthis, to which the name is applied, are enumerated by Morris, Austral English.
1883. E. P. Ramsay, Food-Fishes N. S. Wales, 20. The white trevally, Caranx georgianus,… on the New South Wales coast … seldom … weighing over 11/2 to 2 lbs., is found on the shores of Queensland of a much greater size.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. (ed. 4), 184. The Collection also contains … the … ‘Trevalley.’
1886. Sherrin, Fishes of New Zeal., 99. Dr. Hector says: ‘The trevalli is the arara of the Maoris, or the trevalli or cavalli of the fishermen…. The fish known as trevalli in the Dunedin district is a different fish.
1890. Victorian Statutes, Fisheries Act, Schedule 2, Travale.
