Common name of Luciosoma setigerum
 
Common name Apollo sharkminnow
Language English
Type FAO old
Official trade name No
Rank 4 - (Less common name)
Country Global
Locality
Ref. Rainboth, W.J., 1996
Life stage juveniles and adults
Sex females and males
Core primary lexeme
1st modifier other fish
2nd modifier other/n.a.
Remarks 'minnow', Middle English 'menawe'; akin to Old English 'myne', i.e., 'minnow', Old High German 'munewa', i.e., a kind of fish (Ref. 27888); 'shark', of obscure origins but appears to have been introduced to English in the late 1560s by members of Sir John Hawkins' expedition (a ballad of 1569 recorded 'There is no proper name for [the fish] that I know, but that certain men of Captain Hawkins' doth call it a shark'), but it is not known where they got it from. A resemblance to Austrian dialect 'schirk', i.e., sturgeon has been noted (p. 471 in Ref. 11979); 'Apollo', from Greek 'Apollon', i.e., the Greek and Roman god of sunlight, prophecy, music and poetry. Name not listed in ASFIS version 2006 (Ref. 56807).
 
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