kilchn.
/kɪlʃ/ The Swiss name for a small whitefish, Coregonus pidschian, found in northern Europe, Asia, and Canada.
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1881 K. Semper Nat. Conditions of Existence 320 The little fish of the Lake of Constance known as the Kilch.
1931 J. R. Norman Hist. Fishes ix. 175 One of the White-fishes (Coregonus), an important food-fish of Lake Constance, known locally as the Kilch.
1962 D. W. Tucker tr. G. Sterba Freshwater Fishes of World 56 The following may be kept successfully…the Blaufelchen or Grosse Schweberenke (Coregonus wartmanni Bloch) from the lakes of the Voralpen, and even the very rare Kleine Schweberenke or Kilch (Coregonus acronius Rapp).
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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