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Pirlamunga: Billy Goat Plum
Terminalia ferdinandiana
Mayimampi: Magpie Goose
Anseranas semipalmataKanuli: Cocky Apple
Planchonia careya
Jurriyi: Whistling Duck
Dendrocygna spp.
Kipopi: Northern Brown Bandicoot
Isoodon macrourus
Wupwarna: Bush Pumpkin Amorphophallus paeoniifolius
Piranga: Long Bums Telescopium telescopium
Martapaka eggs: Crested Tern Sterna bergii
Mirnangini: Cockle Anadara granosa
Kurumpuka: Mud crab Scylla serrata
Malikini: Peanut Tree Sterculia quadrifida
Tarnikini: Black Flying-fox Pteropus alecto
Purnarrika: Water Lily Nymphaea violacea
Jukwarringa: Mussel Polymesoda erosa
Kurlama: Round Yam Dioscorea bulbifera
Miyaringa: Pandanus Pandanus spiralis
Jipwajirringa: Agile Wallaby Macropus agilis
Kawarri: Yellow-spotted monitor Varanus panoptes
Minta: Cycad Cycas armstrongii
Wuninga: Northern Brushtail Possum
Trichosurus vulpecula
Kawukawuni: Bush Turkey
Ardeotis australisYilinga: Carpet Python Morelia spilota
Yurwuli: Mangrove Worms
Yingwati: Sugarbag
Wurnika: Black Plum Vitex glabrata
Mantuwujini: Dugong Dugong dugon
Karaka: Turtle Eggs
Jarrakalaninga: Turtles
Muranga: Long Yam Dioscorea transversa
Parntirringa: White Currant Flueggea virosa
Jaliwaki: Bush Potato Brachystelma glabriflorum
Arlaminga: Barramundi Lates calcarifer
Yirrikipayi: Saltwater Crocodile Crocodylus porosus
Yankumwani: Green Plum Buchanania obovata
Pinyama: Pink Beach Apple Syzygium suborbiculare
Jimijinga: Milky Plum Persoonia falcata
Tiwi ecological knowledge: Bernard Tipiloura, John Wilson, Lynette Johnson, Jacinta Tipungwuti, Eunice Orsto, and Judy Puruntatameri. Puruntatameri, J. et al (2001) Tiwi Plants and Animals: Aboriginal flora and fauna knowledge from
Bathurst and Melville Islands, northern Australia. Parks and Wildlife Commission of the NT and Tiwi Land Council, Darwin.
Images: Peter Eve, Jeremy Cresswell, Keith McGuinness, Barbara McKaige, Henry Cook, Russell Cumming, Craig Nieminski, Nic Smith, Emma Ligtermoet, Nic Gambold, Liz Thompson, Jacinda Brown, Glenn Wightman, Ian Morris, David Curl, Emma Woodward,
Greg Miles, Lochman Transparencies, Auscape, Lorraine Williams and Gary Bell/OceanwideImages.com
Compilation and Production: Barbara McKaige CSIRO (2014) Design and Layout: First Class in Graphic Design.
© Copyright is owned by the Tiwi Land Council and CSIRO. This publication cannot be reproduced without consent. CSIRO Darwin: phone 08 8944 8400, Tiwi Land Council: phone 08 8970 9373
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