A luderick is a coastal fish, Girella tricuspidata:
Photo by Richard Ling
And to think that I thought that luderick was a literary term meaning playful.
That's ludic, apparently.
Ah well!
Nuts and Bolts: luderick. The word ludic comes from the Latin word lūdus, game. Luderick comes from the Ganay (a native Australian language) ludarag.
Whoops.
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