silverfish

English

Lepisma saccharina (silverfish)

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Wikispecies

Etymology

From silver +‎ fish: from its appearance, in the case of the insect.

Noun

silverfish (plural silverfish or silverfishes)

1. Certain insects
   1. A small wingless insect of species Lepisma saccharinum, with silvery scales; a type of bristletail.
   2. Other similar insects in the order Zygentoma, including:
      1. Ctenolepisma lineata (four-lined silverfish).
      2. Ctenolepisma longicaudata (grey silverfish).
2. Certain fish
   1. Megalops atlanticus (Atlantic tarpon, tarpum).
   2. Raiamas senegalensis (silver fish).
   3. Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum.
   4. A white variety of the goldfish.
   5. Aphareus rutilans (rusty jobfish)
   6. Argentina sphyraena (herring smelt)
   7. Argyrozona argyrozona (carpenter sea bream)
   8. Labeobarbus bynni (Niger barb, barbel, Nile barb)
   9. Enteromius mattozi (papermouth)
   10. Callorhinchus milii (elephant shark)
   11. Elops saurus (ladyfish)
   12. Leptatherina presbyteroides (hardyhead, prettyfish)
   13. Pseudocaranx dentex (white trevally)
   14. Steindachnerina argentea (toothless characin)
   15. Trachinotus ovatus (pompano)
   16. Trichiurus lepturus (largehead hairtail)
   17. Ulaema lefroyi (mottled mojarra)

Synonyms

• (type of bristletail): fishmoth

Translations

Lepisma saccharina

• Basque: zilar arrain
• Bulgarian: люспеница f (ljuspenica)
• Catalan: peixet d'argent
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蠹魚 / 蠹鱼 (zh) (dùyú), 衣魚 / 衣鱼 (zh) (yīyú), 壁魚 / 壁鱼 (zh) (bìyú), 書蛀蟲 / 书蛀虫 (shūzhùchóng), 紙魚 / 纸鱼 (zh) (zhǐyú)

• Czech: rybenka (cs) f
• Danish: sølvfisk c, sølvkræ n
• Dutch: zilvervisje (nl), suikergast (nl) m
• Esperanto: lepismo, sukerfiŝeto
• Estonian: majasoomukas, soomuklane
• Finnish: sokeritoukka (fi)
• French: poisson d’argent (fr) m
• Georgian: ვერცხლისფერი (vercxlisperi)
• German: Silberfischchen (de) n; (rarer also) Fischchen (de) n, Silberfisch (de) m; (archaic) Zuckergast m
• Hebrew: דג כסף
• Hungarian: pikkelyke
• Icelandic: silfurskotta
• Indonesian: gegat (id)
• Italian: pesciolino d'argento m
• Japanese: 西洋紙魚 (seiyō shimi)
• Kashmiri: کاغذ کیٛوم (Kagaz kyom)
• Korean: 양좀 (yangjom)
• Malay: gegat
• Navajo: łeʼesoołii, łeʼesoołii disxǫsígíí
• Norman: teigne f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sølvkre n

• Polish: rybik cukrowy (pl)
• Portuguese: traça (pt) f, traça-dos-livros (pt) f
• Russian: са́харная чешу́йница f (sáxarnaja češújnica)
• Slovak: švehla f
• Spanish: lepisma f, pececillo de plata (es) m
• Swedish: silverfisk (sv) c, nattsmyg c
• Turkish: gümüşçün (tr)
• Vietnamese: bọ bạc, nhậy (vi), mọt sách (vi)
• Volapük: (♂♀) lepismat, (♂) hilepismat, (♀) jilepismat, (♂♀) lepismatül, (♂) hilepismatül, (♀) jilepismatül

See also

extant orders of insects in English

• jumping bristletails, archaeognathans (Archaeognatha)
• cockroaches and termites, blattodeans (Blattodea)
• beetles, coleopterans (Coleoptera)
• earwigs, dermapterans (Dermaptera)
• flies, dipterans (Diptera)
• webspinners, embiopterans (Embioptera)
• mayflies, ephemeropterans (Ephemeroptera)
• ice crawlers, grylloblattodeans (Grylloblattodea)
• true bugs, hemipterans (Hemiptera)
• hymenopterans (ants, bees, wasps, etc.) (Hymenoptera)
• butterflies and moths, lepidopterans (Lepidoptera)
• mantises, mantodeans (Mantodea)
• mantophasmids (Mantophasmatodea)
• scorpionflies, mecopterans (Mecoptera)
• megalopterans (alderflies, dobsonflies, fishflies, etc.) (Megaloptera)
• neuropterans (antlions, lacewings, mantisflies, etc.) (Neuroptera)
• damselflies and dragonflies, odonatans (Odonata)
• orthopterans (crickets, grasshoppers, katydids, etc.) (Orthoptera)
• stick insects, phasmatodeans (Phasmatodea)
• stoneflies, plecopterans (Plecoptera)
• booklice, psocodeans (Psocodea)
• snakeflies, raphidiopterans (Raphidioptera)
• fleas, siphonapterans (Siphonaptera)
• strepsipterans (Strepsiptera)
• thrips, thysanopterans (Thysanoptera)
• caddis flies, trichopterans (Trichoptera)
• zorapterans (Zoraptera)
• silverfish, zygentomans (Zygentoma)