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The Grayling Fish and River-Names

Nature volume 192, page 1102 (1961)Cite this article

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THE grayling fish belongs to the family Thymalidae and is closely related to the family Salmonidae. It offers, I believe, a new and tenable explanation for the much-disputed origin of the river-names ‘Thames’ and ‘Humber’.

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TUTIN, J. The Grayling Fish and River-Names. Nature 192, 1102 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1921102a0

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