🦋 Family

Osmeridae

5 species · Animals

Animalia › Chordata › › Osmeriformes › Osmeridae

Hypomesus pretiosus, the surf smelt, is a Pacific North American marine smelt important to fisheries and predator diets.

Mallotus villosus, the capelin, is a small smelt-family forage fish found in northern oceans, with flexible reproduction based on spawning habitat.

Osmerus eperlanus, the European smelt, is an Osmeridae fish found in European coastal waters and Northern European large lakes.

Rainbow smelt (Osmerus mordax) is a North American fish species, native to Atlantic, Arctic, and Pacific drainages, and introduced widely elsewhere.

Thaleichphys pacificus (eulachon) is an anadromous smelt distinguished by specific physical traits, feeding at sea and spawning in freshwater.

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Galaxiidae 7 species Plecoglossidae 1 species Retropinnidae 1 species

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