Osmerus thaleichthys

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• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Interesting Facts

Taxonomy

Similar Species

Members of the genus Osmerus

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 10 species and subspecies in this genus:

O. dentex (Pacific Rainbow Smelt) · O. elongatus (Whitebait Smelt) · O. eperlanus (Atlantic Rainbow Smelt) · O. japonicus (Japanese Smelt) · O. mordax (Atlantic Rainbow Smelt) · O. mordax dentex (Arctic Rainbow Smelt) · O. mordax mordax (American Smelt) · O. nehereus (Bombay Duck (India)) · O. spectrum (Pygmy Smelt) · O. starksi (Night Smelt)

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Further Reading

• ... The genera of fishes. .. A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature. By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif., The University, 1917-1920. url p. 473.
• A catalogue of the fishes known to inhabit the waters of North America, north of the Tropic of Cancer, with notes on the species discovered in 1883 and 1884, by David Starr Jordan. Washington, Govt. print. off., 1885. url p. 42.
• A guide to the study of fishes, by David Starr Jordan. .. New York, H. Holt and Company, 1905. url p. 123.
• A manual of land and fresh water vertebrate animals of the United States (exclusive of birds) by Henry Sherring Pratt. .. with 184 illustrations. Philadelphia, Blakiston's[c1923] url p. 50.
• American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture, Boston, L. C. Page[c1903]. url , .
• American food and game fishes: A popular account of all the species found in America north of the equator, with keys of ready identification, life histories and methods of capture New York: Doubleday, Page & co., 1902. url p. 228.
• An annotated list of Puget Sound fishes, Olympia [Wash.]State printer, 1919. url , .
• Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 208, p. 481.
• Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. New York, New York Academy of Sciences. url p. 352.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. url p. 203, p. 203.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url .
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url , , p. 150, p. 268, p. 268.
• California fish and game. [San Francisco, etc.]: State of California, Resources Agency, Dept. of Fish and Game. url p. 132, p. 21, p. 219, p. 47, p. 55, p. 55, p. 9.
• Canadian fisherman. Gardenvale, Que. [etc.]National Business Publications [etc.] url p. 176, p. 486.
• Cassell's natural history. Ed. by P. Martin Duncan. .. London [etc]Cassell & Company, Limited, 1896. url p. 117.
• Catalogue of scientific papers (1800-1900) Comp. by the Royal society of London. Cambridge, C. J. Clay and sons, 1867-1902; url p. 131.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum / by Albert Gu?nther. .. [Tokyo?]: Kagaku Kisho Hakkokai, Sho?wa 13 [1938]. url p. 168.
• Catalogue of the fishes in the. .. Museum / by A. Günther 1866. url p. 168.
• Check list of the fishes of the Dominion of Canada and Newfoundland. Ottawa, Printed by C. H. Parmelee, 1913. url , .
• Contributions to North American ichthyology. Based primarily on the collections of the United States National Museum. Washington: Govt. print. off., 1877-78. url p. 32.
• Contributions to biology from the Hopkins Seaside Laboratory of the Leland Stanford Jr. University. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1895-1904. url p. 793.
• Journal of morphology. Boston: Ginn & Co., [1887-1924] url p. 64.
• Lands, fisheries and game, minerals. Ottawa, Mortimer Co., 1911. url p. 183.
• Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco: The Academy, 1868- url p. 53.
• Pamphlets on forestry. Fish and game. [1900?- url , p. 522.
• Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Washington, Biological Society of Washington url p. 135, p. 53.
• Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco, The Academy. url p. 350, p. 793.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] url p. 14, p. 291, p. 295, p. 297, p. 41.
• Provincial Museum of Natural History and Enthnology. Victoria, B.C., Printed by Richard Wolfenden, 1909. url p. 7.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 294, p. 294, p. 400, p. 400, p. 465, p. 465, p. 830.
• Report of the United States Commissioner of Fisheries for the fiscal year. .. with appendixes Washington: G.P.O., 1914- url p. 67.
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. 22 1882 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. url p. 14, p. 41, p. 68.
• The fisheries and fishery industries of the United States. Prepared through the co-operation of the commissioner of fisheries and the superintendent of the tenth census by George Brown Goode. .. and a staff of associates. .. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1884-87. url p. 544.
• The fisheries of British Columbia. Victoria, B.C.: R. Wolfenden, 1910. url .
• The fishes of North and Middle America a descriptive catalogue of the species of fish-like vertebrates found in the waters of North America, north of the Isthmus of Panama / by David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann. Washington: G.P.O., 1898. url .
• The fishes of Puget sound, by David Starr Jordan and Edwin Chapin Starks. Palo Alto, Cal., Leland Stanford Junior University, 1895. url p. 793.
• The genera of fishes. ..: A contribution to the stability of scientific nomenclature / By David Starr Jordan. Stanford University, Calif.: The University, 1917-1920. url p. 473.
• The standard natural history / edited by John Sterling Kingsley. Boston: S.E. Cassino, 1884-85. url p. 144.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3864456
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 4154949

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