plecoglossid

Noun

 * 1)  Any fish of the family  (sometimes regarded as a subfamily,  in ); the ayu or sweetfish.
 * 2) * 1984, Excerpta Medica, Section 3: Endocrinology, Volume 51, page 251,
 * Furthermore, the antibody to sPRL reacted only with PRL cells in the pituitaries of three species of salmonids, a plecoglossid, eel, carp, goldfish, killifish, tilapia, and five species of marine fishes,.
 * 1) * 1986, Southwest Fisheries Center (U.S.), Collected Reprints, Issue 1, page 370,
 * Iwai & Rosenthal (1981), and Watanabe (1984b) have observed ciliated cells and cilia movement that aid in the transport of food in the alimentary canals of some plecoglossid, osmerid, clupeid, and salangid larvae.

Usage notes
A single genus and species is recognised. Some authories recognise three subspecies of, but this division is disputed.