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Fish & other names with Arabic    according to Thatcher

1. Chirocentrus dorab    hiff
2. Terapon puta          zamrūr ("whistler")
3. porgy (square nose)  [[strikethrough]] faskhar [[/strikethrough]] qurqufānah
4. Sparus cuvieri sba[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] ity [[sbaity]] sbait[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]]ī [[sbaitī]]
5. band head porgy    faskar[[strikethrough]] ah [[/strikethrough]]
6. chub(Plectorhynchus or [[strikethrough]] Hyphosus [[/strikethrough]] ) [[strikethrough]] inimih [[/strikethrough]] inimāh
7. Scarus dussumieri   qa[[strikethrough]] y [[//strikethrough]]n [[qain]] geen
8. Sillago sihama   hāsūn
9. Nemipterus   bās^[[insertion]] ī [[/insertion]]yah [[bāsīyah]]
10. Scad     S[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] īnah [[Sīnah]]
11. halfbeak     s[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] īls [[sīls]]
12. parapercid  zyb ha[[strikethrough y [[/strikethrough]]ir [[hair]]
13. Chanos (Dorosoma) [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]] īwāf [[strikethrough]] ah [[/strikethrough]] īwāf 
14. leatherjack     lalāh [[strikethrough]] ah [[/strikethrough]]
15 Sparus spinifer   Thūr (thaur?)
16 Seriola  rab[[strikethrough]] ay [[/strikethrough]]ibah [[rabibah]] (large)
17. Scomberomorus [[strikethrough]] chanad [[/strikethrough]] kan'ad (chan'ad)
18. blue crab [[strikethrough]] gūb gūb [[/strikethrough]] ? qubqub
19. scorpaenid ( frijali ?) [[arrow drawn to this line from below, linked to]] faryaleh [[/arrow link]]
20. small snails  subān
21. [[strikethrough]] bursjin [[/strikethrough]] land crab   bursjīn (land devil)
22. 'ūm    sardines  'ūmah (sing.)
23. Tylosurus   ubbar[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]]ī [[ubbarī]] =small, large= hāgūl
24. C.dispar 'uft[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]]ī [['uftī]]
25. Gerrid    Musallaqah
26. Platycephalus       Waharah
27. sargus noct  M^[[insertion]] u [[/insertion]]shawah [[Mushawah]]
28. [[strikethrough]] Common [[/strikethrough]] small porgy    battāneh     C. crenidens     brown tooth porgy
29. common small porgy yellow fins ([[smudged]]hi'm) Shi'm   S.datnia
30. Apogon thurstoni  [[stirkethrough]] sh [[/strikethrough]] sihat al ra'[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]]ī [[ra'ī]] (shepherd's food)
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[[underline]] Parapercis [[strikethrough]] personatus [[/strikethrough]] smithii [/underline]]
31. sand lizard   wuzāqah
32. filefish    [[strikethrough]] bghymy [[/strikethrough]] baghūmī
33. Scolopsis personatus  bz[[strikethrough]] ey [[/strikethrough]]aim [[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]]īyah  bzaimīyah
34. Scolopsis striped   zarra'ah
35. Plesiops & Pomacentrids [[strikethrough]] Q'eysy [[/strikethrough]] Q'aisī [[underline]] Abudeduf marginatus [[/underline]]
36. green wrasse,gobis,etc. nabbāt
37. sea snake  baljan[[strikethrough]] ey [[/strikethrough]]ai [[baljanai]] (bu Janāh = like a stick) [[underline]] Hydrophis [[/underline]]
38. Short gerrid (high dorsel)   rīyāshah (feather)
39. long gerrid    musallaqah (see #25)
40. leftside flatfish   khūfa'ah
41. toadfish    qumqāmah   KumKomah
42. [[strikethrough]] Megaproto [[strikethrough]] Chaetodon   raq'āh = "patch"
43. angel fish  'unfūz
44. [[strikethrough]] grunt [[/strikethrough]] Lutjanus (spot)  naisarah
45. small Spotted grouper   bālūl
46. Lethrinus (greendots) shuhdhūdh [[insertion]] small [[/insertion]] ,shari =large  [[underline]] Lethrinus nebulosus [[/underline]]
47. Lethrinus (red gills)   bakhshīyah   [[underline]] Lethrinus miniatus [[/underline]]
48. Atherinid   (man[[doubleunderline]]sh[[/underline]]ūzah) mankūzah
49. silver grunt blunt nose     qurqufān (see #3)
50. Heniochus           musht al 'arūs ,mushait
51. mackerel scad [[insertion]] [[strikethrough]] C. crumenophthalmus [[/strikethrough]] [[/insertion]]  jinnaiyah   [[underline]] Decapterus russelli? [[/underline]]
52. black grouper    sbait[[y[[/strikethrough]]ī burtam or "burtam", sbaiti, sakhala Bahrain
53 Seriola (small)  samk[[strikethrough]]ah [[/strikethrough]] at tair
54. striped grunt (Pelates)   (yim yāmah) [[strikethrough]] jij [[/strikethrough]] jimjāmah [[underline]] P. quadrilineatus [[/underline]]
55. Male lobster  Um al Rubyān
56. shrimp    rubyān
57. silver porgy Sparus datnia  shi'[[insertion]] e [[/insertion]]m (see # 29  shiam
58. Trunk fish    sam[[insertion]] a [[/insertion]]kat  yūnis [[arabic writing]   Ostracion cubicus
59.  cat fish   (chim) ([[strikethrough]] kim [[/strikethrough]]) kimm
60.  Abfennes hians    ghurraidh[[strikethrough]] y [[/strikethrough]]ī  flat gar
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