E. Indies. Also tupsy, -ey, and more etymologically spelt tăpsī. [a. Hindī tapsī, more fully tapsī machh:—Skr. tapasya matsya, i.e., fish produced from heat, or in the spring season Phalguna (Feb. and March) when the mango blossoms.] A fish of the genus Polynemus, allied to the mullet, 8 or 9 inches long, found in the Ganges and Irawadi; a variety from the estuaries of the Hooghli is considered a great delicacy at Calcutta. Also called MANGO-fish.
1839. Cantor, in Proc. Zool. Soc., July, 116. The species best known is the Polynemus risua, Hamilton; Pol. longifilis, Cuvier; the Tupsee or Mango Fish of the Anglo-Indians.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Mango-fish,… esteemed as a delicacy in India, where it is also called the Tupsee. Ibid. Tupsee, Tupsey.
