Directory of Osmeriformes Resources

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Order of fishes generally known as the smelts, including many families: Argentinidae [argentines or herring smelts], Microstomatidae [microstomatids], Bathylagidae [deap-sea smelts], Opisthoproctidae [barreleyes or spookfishes], Leptochilichthyidae [leptochilichthyids], Alepocephalidae [slickheads], Platytroctidae [platytroctids], Osmeridae [smelts], Salangidae [icefishes or noodlefishes], Sundasalangidae [Sundaland noodlefishes], Retropinnidae [New Zealand smelts], Lepidogalaxiidae [salamanderfishes], Galaxiidae [galaxiids]

Resources in This Category

• Capelin

  http://www.gma.org/fogm/Mallotus_villosus.htm
  Description, color, size, habits, and distribution.

• Plecoglossus altivelis

  http://www.fao.org/fishery/species/2124/en
  Information of sweetfish (ayu) including synonyms, diagnostic features, geographical distribution, habitat, and biology.

• Smelt: Osmerus mordax

  http://www.michigan.gov/dnr/0,1607,7-153-10364_18958-45690--,00.html
  Fact sheet, with image, about this fish species native to North America's Atlantic coast, focused on its occurrence as an introduced species in the Great Lakes.

 

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