Obs. A fish of the African seas.
1731. Medley, Kolben’s Cape G. Hope, II. 187. In the sea about the Cape there is plenty of the fish call’d Bennets.
1772–84. Cook, Voy. (1790), I. 322. The Bennet is near three feet long … the eyes and tail are red, the fins yellow, and the scales purple with gold streaks.
