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Hypomesus pretiosus
Description
Hypomesus pretiosus (Girard, 1854).
Surf Smelt. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Hart 1973). North side of Alaska Peninsula at Izembek Bay, and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002), to Long Beach, southern California (Miller and Lea 1972). Sometimes found in brackish water and rarely in fresh water (Mecklenburg et al. 2002); depth: intertidal to 185 m (607 ft) (min.: Mecklenburg et al. 2002; max.: NWFSC-FRAM).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Osmeridae
- Genus
- Hypomesus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Osmeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- Girard
- Species
- pretiosus
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hypomesus pretiosus (Girard, 1854) sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- Hart, J. L. (1973) Pacific Fishes of Canada. Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada, 180.
- Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.