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Osmeridae
Arctic rainbow smelt
Osmerus dentex
Return to freshwater to spawn
- Polar
- Coastal
- Estuary
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Arctic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- Europe
- Polar regions
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Cold-water fish
Polar
Regional distribution
Arctic Ocean
Elongated
MediumArctic rainbow smelt is a migratory fish from North Pacific and Arctic. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 34 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Smelts and Allies
- Family
- Osmeridae
- Genus
- Osmerus
- Maximum length
- 34 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North Pacific and Arctic: Wonsan, North Korea and the Sea of Okhotsk to Barkley Sound, British Columbia, north to the Bering Sea and the Arctic (Ref. 6793 ). Estuaries and coastal waters of European and Siberian shores of Arctic ocean from White Sea to Chukota in eastern Siberia (Ref. 59043 ).
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
