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The phrase "a small fish of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are describing a specific type of fish or using it metaphorically to refer to someone or something that is minor or insignificant in a larger context.
Example: "In the vast ocean of corporate giants, he felt like just a small fish of a startup."
Alternatives: "a minor player in" or "a little fish in".

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Some motives, in some species, do appear to be largely innate, as, for example, in the courting behaviour of the three-spined stickleback, a small fish of the Northern Hemisphere (see below Biological approaches to motivation: Genetic contributions).

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Its dark collar seems to mimic the silhouette of a small fish, while the rest of its body blends into the downwelling light via its ventral photophores.

Globalization explains why the thrashing of a small fish like Greece, which represents 2.3 percent of Europe's economic output, has threatened to drown the Continent.

You have half a small fish and four inches of water.

For all its co-owners' personal wealth, Tidal is a small fish in a sea of 900lb sharks.

"Say a small fish eats a bunch of microbeads, then a large fish eats a smaller fish," Cummins says.

Dr Valenzano's experiments with resveratrol increased the maximum lifespan of a small fish, called Nothobranchius furzeri, by 60%.

It can be difficult to be a small fish in a big sea of casual gaming sites.

Just recently, we have had a classic case of a small fish being swallowed by a bigger fish, which in turn was swallowed by a giant fish.

Formerly a small fishing village of the Ijo (Ijaw) people in the mangrove swamps of the eastern Niger River delta, Okrika became the capital of the Okrika kingdom in the early 17th century and actively dealt in slaves.

Only 30 years ago, Shenzhen was a small fishing village of a few thousand people, and Dubai had merely a quarter million people.

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