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Sri Lanka is a tropical island situated close to the southern tip of India. It is situated in the middle of Indian Ocean.Because of being an island, Sri Lanka has many endemic freshwater fauna, as well as thousands of marine and brackish water fauna. [1]
While the species is not currently assigned a conservation status by the IUCN due to lack of data, overfishing is assumed to threaten the wild population. [1] The empurau, as the species is known in Malaysia, is reportedly the most expensive edible fish in the country [6] and has been known to fetch up to RM1800 per kilogram of the fish.
Common names of fish can refer to a single species; to an entire group of species, such as a genus or family; or to multiple unrelated species or groups. Ambiguous common names are accompanied by their possible meanings. Scientific names for individual species and higher taxa are included in parentheses.
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Also it depends on where the places with such names are located: If they are in the North Central province or anywhere close to the sea in the East or in the West, they were probably Tamil settlements in the beginning and the population changed over to Sinhala in the course of time (like Puttalama); that might possibly be the case with ...
Olive green or blue on upper part, white on lower part. Olive or yellow fins. The term "Rainbow" in the name is quite fitting and aptly describes the changing colours of that fish. Can be sometimes seen around reefs and artificial wrecks. Fast swimmer, and good sporting fish. Carnivorous 80–120 cm. Good commercial fish. Green jobfish (Vacoas)
[20] [21] In 2008 he started a free internet version of it, the first online English–Sinhala dictionary. [22] [23] Kulatunga later admitted that he had infringed the copyright of the Malalasekera English–Sinhala dictionary in creating his software, but he said in 2015 that he no longer infringed on copyrights.
Tamil loanwords in Sinhala can appear in the same form as the original word (e.g. akkā), but this is quite rare.Usually, a word has undergone some kind of modification to fit into the Sinhala phonological (e.g. paḻi becomes paḷi(ya) because the sound of /ḻ/, [], does not exist in the Sinhala phoneme inventory) or morphological system (e.g. ilakkam becomes ilakkama because Sinhala ...