Published October 19, 2021 | Version v1
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Spirinchus thaleichthys

Description

Spirinchus thaleichthys (Ayres, 1860).

Longfin Smelt. To 20 cm (8 in) TL (Morrow 1980). Kodiak Island (Maslenikov et al. 2013) to southern California (33°54’N) (Bradburn et al. 2011). Marine, brackish, and fresh waters (Moyle 2002); depth: intertidal (Miller et al. 1980), surface to about 137 m (452 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Anadromous.

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 52, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008

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References

  • Morrow, J. E. (1980) The Freshwater Fishes of Alaska. Alaska Northwest Publishing Company, Anchorage.
  • Maslenikov, K. P., Orr, J. W. & Stevenson, D. W. (2013) Range extensions and significant distributional records for eighty-two species of fishes in Alaskan marine waters. Northwestern Naturalist, 94, 1 - 21. https: // doi. org / 10.1898 / 12 - 23.1
  • Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114.
  • Moyle, P. B. (2002) Inland Fishes of California. Revised and Expanded. University of California Press, Berkeley.
  • Miller, B. S., Simenstad, C. A., Cross, J. N., Fresh, K. L. & Steinfort, S. N. (1980) Nearshore fish and macroinvertebrate assemblages along the Strait of Juan de Fuca including food habits of the common nearshore fish. Interagency Energy / Environment R and D Program Report. EPA- 600 / 7 - 80 - 027.