| Common name | Éperlan à petite bouche |
| Language | French |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 2 - (Preferred common name (unique)) |
| Country | Canada |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | McAllister, D.E., V. Legendre and J.G. Hunter, 1987 |
| Life stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | primary lexeme |
| 1st modifier | morphology |
| 2nd modifier | |
| Remarks | 'éperlan' from Middle Dutch 'spierlinc' (p.269, Ref. 9404); 'à petite bouche', i.e., small mouthed; 'petite', i.e., small, from Latin slang 'pittittus, pititus, pitt', i.e., infant language expressing smallness and from Italian 'piccolo' (p. 557 in Ref. 9404); 'bouche' from Latin 'bucca', i.e., cheek, jaw or mouth, (p. 99 in Ref. 9404). |