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Family · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Osmeridae

Smelts

WoRMS 125513ITIS 162028GBIF 8480key worms:125513
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162028 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · xgirouxb · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Thaleichthys pacificus

Size · not on record: no authority the fetcher reads carries a length for this taxon (a genus page could show the range of its species).

Photograph of Osmeridae
Photo · Pacific Southwest Region U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · CC BY 4.0 · inat

Smelts are a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, as well as rivers, streams and lakes in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia.W CalCOFI holds 27 observations of it in 1 dataset between 1956 and 2016, as larva, across 2 taxa under it.R

27
observations
27
records
26
sampling events
1956–2016
years
1
datasets
1
species under it
larva
life stages

Observed in
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One row per dataset, one cell per year, darker with more observations — the same strip the front door draws per dataset. Each row ends with the name that dataset uses (dataset_taxon); the accepted name is written once, in the title above. A quiet pill marks a name the authority does not accept.

  • Ichthyoplankton 26 obs · 26 events · 1956–2016 · larva
    name used: Osmeridae Smelts · code 45

Under it · 1 taxon

Ways in
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Read from taxa.json of release v2026.09.11, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

Explorerdb-query
ERDDAPCalCOFI's own server, the Ichthyoplankton table constrained to this taxon
https://erddap.calcofi.io/erddap/tabledap/swfsc_ichthyo.html?&taxon_key=%22worms:125513%22