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Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776)

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Osmeriformes
family
Osmeridae
genus
Mallotus
species
Mallotus villosus

Name

Synonyms
Clupea villosa Müller, 1776
Mallotus catervarius (Pennant, 1784)
Mallotus villosus catervarius (Pennant, 1784)
Mallotus villosus socialis (Pallas, 1814)
Osmerus villosus (Müller, 1776)
Salmo catervarius Pennant, 1784
Salmo groenlandicus Bloch, 1794
Salmo socialis Pallas, 1814
Homonyms
Mallotus villosus (Müller, 1776)
Common names
Ammassak in Kalaallisut
Atlantic Capelin in English
Capelan in Spanish
Capelan in French
Capelan atlantique in French
Capelan atlantique in French
Capelan atlantique in French
Capelim in Portuguese
Capelin in English
Capelin in English
Capelin in English
Capelin in Romanian
Capelin in Spanish
Capelin in English
Caplaniaid in Welsh
Caplin in English
Gromadnik in Polish
Kaplin in Turkish
Karafutoshishamo in Japanese
Lodda in Swedish
Lodde in German
Lodde in German
Lodde in Dutch
Lodde in Norwegian
Lodde in German
Lodde in English
Lodde in Danish
Loðna in Icelandic
Pacific Capelin in English
Villakuore in Finnish
angmagssaq in Kalaallisut
angmagssaq in Kalaallisut
capelan in French
capelan in French
capelan in French
capelin in English
capelin in English
caplan in Welsh
caplan in Welsh
gromadnik in Polish
gromadnik kapelan in Polish
huňáček severní in Czech
lodda in Swedish
lodda in Swedish
lodde in Dutch
lodde in Dutch
lodde in Nynorsk, Norwegian
lodde in Norwegian Bokmål
lodde in Norwegian
lodde in Norwegian

Bibliographic References

  1. (2010) Catalog of Fishes electronic version (15 January 2010).
  2. Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2026). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. <em>California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco.</em> Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2026.
  3. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  4. Klein-MacPhee, Grace / Collette, Bruce B., and Grace Klein-MacPhee, eds., 2002: Smelts: Family Osmeridae. Bigelow and Schroeder's Fishes of the Gulf of Maine, Third Edition. 162-170.
  5. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  6. Moore, Jon A., Karsten E. Hartel, James E. Craddock, and John K. Galbraith, 2003: An annotated list of deepwater fishes from off the New England region, with new area records. Northeastern Naturalist, vol. 10, no. 2. 159-248.
  7. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  8. Page, Lawrence M., Katherine E. Bemis, Thomas E. Dowling, Héctor S. Espinosa-Pérez et al., 2023: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 37. vii + 439.
  9. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  10. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1991: Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fifth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 20. 183.
  11. Scott, W.B.; Scott, M.G. (1988). Atlantic fishes of Canada. <em>Canadian Bulletin of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences.</em> No. 219. 731 pp.
  12. van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels,</i> 50: pp. 357-374
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