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Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister 1963
Description
** Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963.
Wakasagi. To 19.5 cm (7.8 in) SL (Saruwatari et al. 1997). Widespread in Japan, Sakhalin Island and environs (Dyldin and Orlov 2016b); introduced to California lakes in 1959 (Saruwatari et al. 1997), now in Sacramento–San Joaquin Estuary (Aasen et al. 1998). Primarily a brackish-water species; found also in fresh water, commonly from transplants (Saruwatari et al. 1997); depth: shallow waters to 50 m (164 ft) (Kim and Kim 2019).
Notes
Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Osmeridae
- Genus
- Hypomesus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Osmeriformes
- Phylum
- Chordata
- Scientific name authorship
- McAllister
- Species
- nipponensis
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963 sec. Love, Bizzarro, Cornthwaite, Frable & Maslenikov, 2021
References
- McAllister, D. E. (1963) A revision of the smelt family, Osmeridae. Bulletin of the National Museum of Canada, 191.
- Saruwatari, T., Lopez, J. A. & Pietsch, T. W. (1997) A revision of the osmerid genus Hypomesus Gill (Teleostei: Salmoniformes), with the description of a new species from the southern Kuril Islands. Species Diversity, 2, 59 - 82. https: // doi. org / 10.12782 / specdiv. 2.59
- Dyldin, Yu. V. & Orlov, A. M. (2016 b) Ichthyofauna of fresh and brackish waters of Sakhalin Island: an annotated list with taxonomic comments: 2. Cyprinidae - Salmonidae families. Journal of Ichthyology, 56, 534 - 555. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945216050040
- Aasen, G. A., Sweetnam, D. A. & Lynch, L. M. (1998) Establishment of the wakasagi, Hypomesus nipponensis, in the Sacramento- San Joaquin Estuary. California Fish and Game, 84, 31 - 35.
- Kim, S. T. & Kim, A. (2019) The structure of multispecies associated communities of fish at western Sakhalin coast by the results of a trawling assessment survey on R / V Bukhoro in June 2018. Journal of Ichthyology, 59, 707 - 726. https: // doi. org / 10.1134 / s 0032945219050060