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Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963

Dataset
GBIF Backbone Taxonomy
Rank
SPECIES
Published in
McAlliter, D. E. (1963). A revision of the smelt family, Osmeridae. <em>Biological Series.</em> No. 71. Bulletin. National Museum of Canada No. 191: 1-53.

Classification

kingdom
Animalia
phylum
Chordata
order
Osmeriformes
family
Osmeridae
genus
Hypomesus
species
Hypomesus nipponensis

Name

Synonyms
Hypomesus chishimaensis Saruwatari, Lopéz & Pietsch, 1997
Hypomesus nippnensis McAllister, 1963
Hypomesus transpacificus nipponensis McAllister, 1963
Homonyms
Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963
Common names
Eperlano de charca japonés in Spanish
Japanese Pond Smelt in English
Japanese smelt in English
Japanese smelt in English
Japanese smelt in English
Japansk søsmelt in Danish
Wakasagi in Japanese
Wakasagi in English
Wakasagi in Japanese
Wakasagi in English
Wakasagi smelt in English
Wakasagi smelt in English
koruška východoasijská in Czech
wakasagi in English
wakasagi in English
Проходная малоротая корюшка in Russian
Проходная малоротая корюшка in Russian
Японская малоротая корюшка in Russian
チシマワカサギ in Japanese
ワカサギ in Japanese
ワカサギ in Japanese
빙어 in Korean
ワカサギ in Japanese
Japanese smelt in English
wakasagi in English
Проходная малоротая корюшка in Russian
ワカサギ in Japanese

Bibliographic References

  1. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  2. Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025).
  3. Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). 10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4
  4. McAllister, D. E., 1963: A revision of the smelt family, Osmeridae. Biological Series, no. 71. Bulletin. National Museum of Canada, no. 191. 1-53.
  5. McAlliter, D. E. (1963). A revision of the smelt family, Osmeridae. <em>Biological Series.</em> No. 71. Bulletin. National Museum of Canada No. 191: 1-53.
  6. Nelson, Joseph S., Edwin J. Crossman, H. Espinosa-Pérez, L. T. Findley, C. R. Gilbert, et al., eds., 2004: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, Sixth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 29. ix + 386.
  7. Page, Lawrence M., Katherine E. Bemis, Thomas E. Dowling, Héctor S. Espinosa-Pérez et al., 2023: Common and scientific names of fishes from the United States, Canada, and Mexico, 8th edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 37. vii + 439.
  8. Robins, Richard C., Reeve M. Bailey, Carl E. Bond, James R. Brooker, Ernest A. Lachner, et al., 1980: A List of Common and Scientific Names of Fishes from the United States and Canada, Fourth Edition. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, no. 12. 174.
  9. Saruwatari, T., J. A. López, and T. W. Pietsch, 1997: A revision of the osmerid genus Hypomesus Gill (Teleostei: Salmoniformes), with the description of a new species from the southern Kuril Islands. Species Diversity, vol. 2, no. 1. 59-82.
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