| Common name | Hooknose |
| Language | English |
| Type | Vernacular |
| Official trade name | No |
| Rank | 3 - (Other common name) |
| Country | United States (contiguous states) |
| Locality | |
| Ref. | McClanes, A.J. (ed.), 1974 |
| Life stage | juveniles and adults |
| Sex | females and males |
| Core | morphology |
| 1st modifier | |
| 2nd modifier | |
| Remarks | 'Hook' replaced English 'hake' from Old Norse 'haki' (German 'haken', Dutch 'haak', Swedish 'hake', Danish 'hage') from prehistoric 'keg, keng', i.e., bent object (p. 286 in Ref. 11979); 'nose' from Indo-European 'nas' which produced Latin 'nãsus', Sanskrit 'nás', Lithuanian 'nósis', Russian, Polish, Czech, Serbo-Croat 'nos', German 'nase', Dutch 'neus', Swedish 'näsa', Danish 'naese' (p. 366 in Ref. 11979); used to describe the hooked upper jaw of this fish. |