Fishes with a common name of silver fish or silverfish may include:
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Aphareus rutilans
''Aphareus rutilans'', the rusty jobfish, ironjaw snapper, red smalltooth job, silvermouth or small tooth jobfish, is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a snapper belonging to the Family (biology), family Lutjanidae. It is found in the Indo-Paci ...
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Argentina sphyraena
''Argentina sphyraena,'' the lesser silver smelt or lesser argentine, is a species of fish belonging to the family Argentinidae
The herring smelts or argentines are a family, Argentinidae, of marine smelts. They are similar in appearance to s ...
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Argyrozona argyrozona''
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Labeobarbus bynni
''Labeobarbus bynni'' , the Niger barb, is an African species of cyprinid freshwater fish. It has often been placed in the genus ''Barbus'', but is now usually placed in ''Labeobarbus''. This is a relatively large barb, up to in total length. It ...
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Enteromius mattozi''
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Callorhinchus milii
The Australian ghostshark (''Callorhinchus milii'') is a cartilaginous fish (Chondrichthyes) belonging to the subclass Holocephali (chimaera). Sharks, rays and skates are the other members of the cartilaginous fish group and are grouped under the ...
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Elops saurus
The ladyfish or tenpounder (''Elops saurus'') is a species of fish in the genus ''Elops'', the only genus in the monotypic family Elopidae.
Description
Like other species in its genus, the ladyfish has a long, slender, rounded body covered wi ...
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Leptatherina presbyteroides''
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Megalops atlanticus
The Atlantic tarpon (''Megalops atlanticus'') is a ray-finned fish that inhabits coastal waters, estuaries, lagoons, and rivers. It is also known as the silver king. It is found in the Atlantic Ocean, typically in tropical and subtropical regions ...
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Pseudocaranx dentex''
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Raiamas senegalensis
''Raiamas senegalensis'' (silver fish, Senegal trout barb or Senegal minnow) is a species of freshwater ray-finned fish belonging to the family Danionidae, the danios or danionins. This species is from western Africa east to the River Nile. It s ...
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Steindachnerina argentea''
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Trachinotus ovatus''
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Trichiurus lepturus
The largehead hairtail (''Trichiurus lepturus'') or beltfish is a member of the cutlassfish family, Trichiuridae. This common to abundant species is found in tropical and temperate oceans throughout the world. The taxonomy is not fully resolved, ...
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Ulaema lefroyi''
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Antarctic silverfish
The Antarctic silverfish (''Pleuragramma antarctica''), or Antarctic herring, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Nototheniidae, the notothens or cod icefishes. It is native to the Southern Ocean and the only truly pela ...
(''Pleuragramma antarcticum'')
* A Chinese-to-English translation of
whitebait
Whitebait is a collective term for the immature fry of fish, typically between long. Such young fish often travel together in schools along coasts, and move into estuaries and sometimes up rivers where they can be easily caught using fine-mes ...
* Members of the family
Salangidae
Salangidae, the icefishes or noodlefishes, are a family of small osmeriform fish, related to the smelts. They are found in Eastern Asia, ranging from the Russian Far East in the north to Vietnam in the south, with the highest species richness ...
("dulong" in the
Tagalog language
Tagalog ( ,According to the ''OED'' anMerriam-Webster Online Dictionary ; ''Baybayin'': ) is an Austronesian language spoken as a first language by the ethnic Tagalog people, who make up a quarter of the population of the Philippines, and as ...
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