aranavi kind of snapper

• • kind of snapper
  • • animals, fishes

  Scientific Name

  Lutjanidae

  • • Example 305:
      

      A aranavi na teitei nana namana bara taena maa ruene ae tea boon. A tabaan teori o vahara kehaa vaa tahii ae tea boon bara o vahara katoo me to aniani riori. Aranavi a gogooravi vasiihum. A iana bona be beera na aniani ria tavaan. A aranavi na vaapeha vadoana me nana bona sinarona. A sinarona na gogooravi oha nana bona aranavi.

      The Snapper stays in the ocean, at the mouth of rivers, and in the mangrove swamp. Their food are little shells from the sea and the mangroves, and they also eat little crabs. The Snapper is a bit red. When this fish becomes big, the people eat it. The aranavi Snapper is almost like the Red Snapper. The Red Snapper is redder that the aranavi snapper.

      Source: Vaa 09W 020-026

    • Example 306:
      

      A aranavi na rahirahi riori bona kanono bara na kana riori bona kave.

      The aranavi snapper is caught with a string and caught with a net.

      Source: Jub 02W 001

    • Example 307:
      

      Na rahi raara bona kanono beara beana ni ta beana. Na rahirahi raara teo kaku vagana to dao raara bona busubusu ge tatasu.

      We catch it with a string after we have put some bait on it (the string). We catch it by using a fishing method that we call busubusu or tatasu.

      Source: Eno 11W 015-016

Related entries

• See also:
  • boon² mangroves; mangrove swamp
  • busubusu fishing with a line while sitting in a floating canoe
  • kana scoop something up; catch fish or lobsters in a net
  • sinarona Red Snapper, a red fish similar to the aranavi
  • tatasu² line fishing while standing of the on the edge of the reef
  • gogooravi¹ red
  • kehaa vaa tahii saltwater shellfish