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Osmeridae
rainbow smelt
Osmerus mordax
Migrates a thousand kilometers upstream to spawn
- Temperate
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- North America
- Polar regions
- Elongated
- Compressed cross-section
- Medium
- Temperate fish
Temperate
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Elongated
Mediumrainbow smelt is a freshwater fish found around North Atlantic. It inhabits freshwater habitats. The largest recorded length is 35.6 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Smelts and Allies
- Family
- Osmeridae
- Genus
- Osmerus
- Maximum length
- 35.6 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- North Atlantic: Atlantic drainages from Lake Melville in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada to Delaware River in Pennsylvania, USA and west through Great lakes. Arctic and Pacific drainages from Bathurst Inlet, Northwest Territories to Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. Also Pacific drainages of Asia.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
