lutefish
English
Noun
lutefish (plural lutefish or lutefishes)
- Alternative form of lutefisk
- A family of characiform fish (Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.), including the genera Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. (one species), Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. (one species), and Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template. (6 species).
- 2013 October, Jairo Arroyave, John S. S. Denton & Melanie L.J. Stiassny, “Are characiform fishes Gondwanan in origin? Insights from a time-scaled molecular phylogeny of the Citharinoidei (Ostariophysi: Characiformes)”, in PLOS One:
- Citharinids (commonly known as lutefishes), although not as morphologically and taxonomically diverse as distichodontids, are distributed throughout much of tropical Africa, and constitute an important component of the artisanal fisheries in the region [40].
- 2017 January, Iva Přikrylová Andrew P. Shinn, & Giuseppe Paladini, “Description of Citharodactylus gagei n. gen. et n. sp. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from the moon fish, Citharinus citharus (Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire), from Lake Turkana”, in Parasitology research, volume 116, number 1:
- The Citharinidae is one of the less species-rich families in Africa with only eight species belonging to three genera. Citharinids, commonly known as lutefish, are distributed throughout much of tropical Africa and constitute an important part of artisanal fishing catches.