Osmerus spectrum

• Overview
• Interesting Facts
• Common Names
• Taxonomy
• Similar Species
• More Info
• Further Reading
• Notes

Overview

Family : Smelts ; Lives in small, deep, thermally stratified lakes . When this species occurs with Osmerus mordax , it usually spawns later in the year, feeds on smaller food items, grows more slowly, matures earlier in life, and has a shorter life span.

Interesting Facts

Common Names

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Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

First described: Cope, E.D. Seventh contribution to the herpetology of tropical America. Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 11 [1869]: 147-169, 1870.

Last scrutiny: Data last modified by FishBase 04-May-1994

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)

More Info

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Further Reading

• 1994 IUCN red list of threatened animals Gland, Switzerland: IUCN, 1993 url p. 101.
• 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 .
• An annotated catalogue of the fishes of Maine. Portland, Me., 1914. url p. 126, p. 134, p. 161, p. 177, p. 38.
• Bulletin of the Bureau of Fisheries. Washington, D.C.: Govt. Print. Off., 1905-1950. url p. 577.
• Cope papers, 1871-[1897. Philadelphia, etc., 1871-97] url .
• Fauna of New England, 8. List of the pisces, by William C. Kendall. Boston, Printed for the [Boston] Society [of Natural History] from the G. Saltonstall Fund, 1908. url p. 48.
• Fishes of the western North Atlantic. Editorial board: editor-in-chief John Tee-Van [and others] New Haven, Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale Univ., 1948- url p. 572.
• Occasional papers of the Boston Society of Natural History. Boston, Boston Society of Natural History, 1869-1941. url p. 48.
• Pamphlets on forestry. Fish and game. [1900?- url p. 523.
• Report of the Commissioner for. .. / United States Commission of Fish and Fisheries. Washington: G.P.O., 1874-1905. url p. 294, p. 596.
• Soft-rayed Bony fishes: class Osteichthyes, order Acipenseroidei, order Lepisostei, order Isospondyli, suborder Elopoidea, suborder Clupeoidea, suborder Salmonoidea / Henry B. Bigelow. .. [et al.]. New Haven, Conn.: Sears Foundation for Marine Research, Yale University, 1963. url p. 572.
• Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url , , , , , , , , , , , , p. 11, p. 13, p. 14, p. 15, p. 17, p. 177, p. 186, p. 20, p. 23, p. 24, p. 244, p. 25, p. 26, p. 3, p. 4, p. 4, p. 6, p. 7, p. 7, p. 71, p. 72, p. 8.
• The Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. url p. 132, p. 136, p. 149, p. 154, p. 169, p. 253, p. 275, p. 398, p. 4, p. 4, p. 440, p. 442, p. 458, p. 569, p. 636, p. 648, p. 671, p. 73, p. 748, p. 787, p. 95.

Notes

Contributors

• Bockmann, Flavio (from FishBase).
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• FishBase. Release date: January 5, 2010
• Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Gimenez Dixon, M. 1996. Osmerus spectrum. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 03February2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 02, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 2 providers.
• IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System. Accessed February 26, 2006. www.iobis.org
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 02, 2008:

• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Fish Collection
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Canadian Museum of Nature - Fish Collection (OBIS Canada)
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Fish Collection

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 134004
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Fis-31712
• IUCN ID: 228946
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 398051

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