Plural of blanquillo; multiple fish of the blanquillo species.
Spanish plural form of blanquillo, using the standard Spanish pluralization by changing -o to -os. This form preserves the original Spanish naming convention.
When fishery biologists count fish populations, using the original Spanish plural 'blanquillos' keeps them connected to the local fishing communities who discovered and named these fish—it's a small way that colonial languages never completely replaced Indigenous and local knowledge systems in marine science.
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