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Species
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GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumChordata
- ClassTeleostei
- OrderOsmeriformes
- FamilyOsmeridae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 80
- With media
- 8
- Family
- Osmeridae
- Collections
- NHMUK, USNM, CAS, MSB, CMN, OS
- Recorded in
- United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Netherlands
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Osmerus is a genus of smelt.
==Species== There are currently three recognized species in this genus: Osmerus dentex (Steindachner & Kner, 1870) (Pacific rainbow smelt) Osmerus eperlanus (Linnaeus, 1758) (European smelt) Osmerus mordax (Mitchill, 1814) Osmerus mordax dentex Steindachner & Kner, 1870 (Arctic rainbow smelt) Osmerus mordax mordax (Mitchill, 1814) (Rainbow smelt) The Pygmy smelt Osmerus spectrum described by Edward Drinker Cope in 1870 is a synonym of O. mordax. Fossil species Osmerus albyi Sauvage, 1870 (Messinian of Italy) Osmerus glarisianus Agassiz, 1842 (Oligocene of Czechia & Romania) Osmerus larteti Sauvage, 1870 (Messinian of Italy) Osmerus propterygius Sauvage, 1870 (Messinian of Italy) Osmerus stilpnos Sauvage, 1870 (Messinian of Italy)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Osmerus” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.