Tench definition of Tench in the Free Online Encyclopedia.

tench

a European freshwater cyprinid game fish, Tinca tinca, having a thickset dark greenish body with a barbel at each side of the mouth

Tench

(Tinca tinca), a fish of the family Cyprinidae. The thick, deep body is covered with a thick layer of slime and small scales. The back is dark green, and the eyes olive with a golden hue. Length, approximately 30 cm (sometimes 60 cm); weight, about 500 g (sometimes 7.5 kg). Small barbels are at the corners of the mouth. Tench inhabit the fresh waters of Europe except for the river basins that flow into the Arctic Ocean. They live in the rivers and lakes of the European USSR and in the basins of the Ob’ and Enisei rivers. Slightly mobile bottom fish, they prefer standing and overgrown rivers and lakes. Because these fish can tolerate low oxygen content, they are found in bodies of water that temporarily lack oxygen. Sexual maturity is reached at three or four years of age, when the body measures more than 20 cm long. The fecundity is 300,000 to 400,000 eggs. Spawning occurs intermittently over an extensive period. Tench feed on small invertebrates and, less commonly, on aquatic plants. They are of little commercial importance. Tench are bred artificially to produce a golden variety, similar to the goldfish that is produced by breeding the silver carp.

REFERENCES

Nikol’skii, G. V. Chastnaia ikhtiologiia, 3rd ed. Moscow, 1971.
Zhizn’zhivotnykh, vol. 4, part 1. Moscow, 1971.

A. A. SVETOVIDOVA

Mentioned in	?		References in classic literature	?		Encyclopedia browser	?		Full browser	?
No references found	Casaubon that he had once addressed a dedication to Carp in which he had numbered that member of the animal kingdom among the viros nullo aevo perituros, a mistake which would infallibly lay the dedicator open to ridicule in the next age, and might even be chuckled over by Pike and Tench in the present. Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context Maggie was frightened lest she had been doing something wrong, as usual, but presently Tom drew out her line and brought a large tench bouncing on the grass. The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context	ten lepers Ten Mile Creek State Fish & Wildlife Area ten o'clock scholar ten plagues, the Ten Thousand Islands Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge Ten Thousand Smokes, Valley Ten Thousand Smokes, Valley of Ten Thousand, March of the ten tribes Ten Years War ten's complement Ten, Council of Ten-Day and One-Day Art and Literature Festivals of the Peoples of the ten-finger interface Ten15 tenacity Tenafly Tenali tenancy tenancy in common tenant tenant farming tenant's improvement Tenasserim Tench Tenda tendency Tendency and Tendentiousness tendency chart tendency equation tendency interval Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall, Law of Tender tender plant tenderfoot tenderloin tendinitis Tendipedidae Tendon tendon profile Tendon Reflex tendon sheath tendonitis Tendovaginitis Tendra Tendra Spit tendrec Tendriakov, Vladimir Tendriakov, Vladimir Fedorovich Tendril	Tenants Regulation Advisory Group Tenants' Association for Sheltered Housing tenants' charter Tenants' Union of Queensland Tenants-in-chief Tenants’ and Workers’ Support Committee Tenants’ Energy Advice Service Tenascin Tenasserim tenative TENATSO TENAWA Tenax Tenax-Modified Carbon Paste Electrode Tenbagger Tenbaggers TENCAP TENCAP General Officer's Steering Committee TENCAP Real-Time Image Processing Spectrograph Tencarva Machinery Company Tencel Tench tenches tenches Tenchi in Tokyo Tenchi Muyo Tenchi Muyo Fan Fiction Archive Tenchi Muyo! Another Universe Tenchu: Return from Darkness Tenckhoff catheter Tenckhoff catheter Tenckhoff catheter TENCLO Tencor File Format tend tend tend tend tend to tend to do Tend to Infinity tend to show Tend To Your Own Business tend toward tend toward tend towards tend towards tend- Tenda Tenda Tendai Tendance

Mentioned in

References in classic literature

Encyclopedia browser

Full browser

No references found

Casaubon that he had once addressed a dedication to Carp in which he had numbered that member of the animal kingdom among the viros nullo aevo perituros, a mistake which would infallibly lay the dedicator open to ridicule in the next age, and might even be chuckled over by Pike and Tench in the present.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

Maggie was frightened lest she had been doing something wrong, as usual, but presently Tom drew out her line and brought a large tench bouncing on the grass.

The Mill on the Floss by Eliot, George View in context

Tench playV2('en/US/dy/dysfdsskdsd7hr');playV2('en/UK/dy/dysfdsskdsd7hr')

REFERENCES

Tench