Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Chordata > Subphylum Vertebrata > Infraphylum Gnathostomata > Parvphylum Osteichthyes > Gigaclass Actinopterygii > Subclass Neopterygii > Class Teleostei > Order Osmeriformes

Osmeridae Regan, 1913

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Family group names

smelts subjective synonym

Children

Hypomesus Gill, 1862
Mallotus Cuvier, 1829
Osmerus Linnaeus, 1758

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: smelts sources: Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2025). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (06/2024).
 Japanese: キュウリウオ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Norwegian Bokmål: loddefamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Norwegian Nynorsk: loddefamilien sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points
 Swedish: norsfiskar

Literature

basis of record

van der Land, J.; Costello, M.J.; Zavodnik, D.; Santos, R.S.; Porteiro, F.M.; Bailly, N.; Eschmeyer, W.N.; Froese, R. (2001). Pisces, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 357-374

additional source

Fricke, R., Eschmeyer, W. N. & Van der Laan, R. (eds). (2025). ECoF. Eschmeyer's Catalog of Fishes: Genera, Species, References. California Academy of Sciences. San Francisco. Electronic version accessed dd mmm 2025.

taxonomy source

Van Der Laan, R.; Eschmeyer, W. N.; Fricke, R. (2014). Family-group names of Recent fishes. Zootaxa. 3882(1): 1-230.

Genbank

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Citation

Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2025). FishBase. Osmeridae Regan, 1913. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125513

Dr. Jorg Freyhof. Osmeridae Regan, 1913. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/882312ac-ce12-458c-98ba-9aeb48101851

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, brackish, fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

no data

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GUID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:125513
urn:lsid:faunaeur.org:taxname:12039

Last modified

2015-04-17 by Dr. Jorg Freyhof & by Nicolas Bailly

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