Common name of Argentina sphyraena
 
Common name Lesser silver smelt
Language English
Type Vernacular
Official trade name No
Rank 3 - (Other common name)
Country United Kingdom
Locality
Ref. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1990
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core taste/smell
1st modifier color pattern(s)
2nd modifier mod. for size
Remarks 'smelt', i.e., used to refer to any of the salmonid species of the genus Osmerus with delicate oily flesh, distinctive oder and taste (p. 1113 from Ref. 11978); etymologically, 'smelt' from Old English 'melt' borrowed from Middle Low German 'melt-' from Indo-European 'meld-, mold-, mld-' (p. 344 in Ref. 11979).
 
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