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Species · accepted · checked 2026-08-05

Hypomesus pretiosus

surf smelt

WoRMS 279422ITIS 162030GBIF 2410871key worms:279422
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2026-08-05: itis_id 162030 via WoRMS external link

Silhouette · xgirouxb · Public Domain Mark · PhyloPic, drawn from Thaleichthys pacificus
surf smelt30.5 cm
bongo net ring71 cm

max · worms_attribute

Surf Smelt (Hypomesus pretiosus) in the United States
Photo · Lee Cain · CC BY 4.0 · commons

Hypomesus pretiosus, or surf smelt, is a marine smelt with a range from Prince William Sound, Alaska to Long Beach, California, although its population declines south of San Francisco. The surf smelt grows to be about 10 inches in southern waters, and 83⁄4 inches in northern waters near Canada.W CalCOFI holds 1 observations of it in 1 dataset between 2015 and 2015, as larva.R

1
observations
1
records
1
sampling events
2015
years
1
datasets
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 1 obs · 1 events · 2015 · larva
    name used: Hypomesus pretiosus · code 47

How big is it
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Every mark is a measured length with its own source — hover one to read it. The reference objects are _data/size_reference.csv: two of them, the 505 µm bongo mesh and the net's ring, are CalCOFI's own sampling gear.

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:279422%22