finnocn.
/ˈfɪnək/ ‘A white trout, a variety of the Salmo fario’ (Jamieson).
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the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > order Salmoniformes (salmon or trout) > family Salmonidae (salmon) > [noun] > genus Salmo > trout (unspecified and miscellaneous) > white trout
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finner1803
silver-white?1834
white trout1861
1771 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. (1794) 230 Phinocs are taken here in great numbers.
1792 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. III. 360 A trout called a finneck..appears in..July and August.
1834 Jardine in Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 1 No. 2. 51 This fish I consider to be the Salmo albus of Fleming..the Phinnock of the north and west of Scotland.
c1850 Nat. Encycl. I. 38 The river abounds with trout, finnock, eels.
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