Hypomesus

smallmouth smelts

Genusaccepted · checked 2026-08-05WoRMS 254339ITIS 162029key worms:254339

2026-08-05: itis_id 162029 via WoRMS external link

Hypomesus is a genus of smelts (Osmeridae), consisting of five species found in the northern hemisphere.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2015 and 2015.R

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observations: 1
records: 2015
years: 1
datasets

Photo · Peterson, B. Moose / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain · commons

Observed in nothing keyed to it directly

Every observation under it belongs to one of the taxa under it — 1 taxon, in the fold below.

Ways inExplorer db-query R Python This page as JSON

Code and endpoints R · Python · JSON

library(calcofi4r)
con <- cc_get_db()                      # the promoted release
tbl(con, "obs_bio") |> filter(taxon_key == "worms:254339")

Read from taxa.json of release v2026.10.19, written at release by calcofi4db::build_taxa_catalog(). The catalog's index is /species/.

How big is it not on record

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

Under it 1 taxon

sp Hypomesus pretiosus surf smelt1

Lineage 12 ranks · Biota to Osmeridae

Credits silhouette · photo · text

Silhouette · xgirouxb · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Thaleichthys pacificus · source
Photo · Peterson, B. Moose / U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service · Public domain · commons · source
Text · Wikipedia, “Hypomesus” · CC BY-SA 4.0 · revision 1349972994

Elsewhere Wikidata · iNaturalist · GBIF

Wikidata iNaturalist GBIF

The same organism on the services the faces were fetched from; the authorities' own pages are the ids in the head.

Cite the release, v2026.10.19

Cite the release, v2026.10.19; each dataset's own citation, licence and DOI are on its page. How to cite ↗