Polynemus (polinemus)

[NL. (Gronovius, 1754), Polynemus plebeius. rated as numerous long slender filaments (whence the name). P. plebeius is a very common Indian species. Polynesian (pol-i-ne's ian), a. and n. [= F. polynésien = Pg. polynesiano; subregion. It consists of all the Pacific islands excepting those that pertain zoologically to the Papuan or Austromalayan group and to New Zealand. Wallace, who defined this region, divides it into Polynesia proper and the Hawaiian Islands, the former being then considered under the four subdivisions of the Ladrone and Caroline Islands, New Caledonia and the New He brides, the Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa Islands, and the Society and Marques as Islands. II. n. A native or an inhabitant of Polynesia, a division of Ocean i a east of Australia and Malaysia, or, in the more modern and restricted sense, a division of Ocean i a east of Mic rones i a and Me lanes i a.