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Capelin

Fish
The capelin or caplin is a small forage fish of the smelt family found in the North Atlantic, North Pacific and Arctic oceans. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf. Larger capelin also eat a great deal of... Wikipedia
Scientific name: Mallotus villosus
Family: Osmeridae
Genus: Mallotus; G. Cuvier, 1829
Phylum: Chordata