A branch of the living world.
110,000 accepted animal species, linked through classification, synonyms, distributions and source literature.
These attributed records come from Catalogue of Life, 2026-09-11. Detail varies; they are not all fully researched, illustrated articles. Browse researched folklore and fiction.
Matches documented source distribution records. Geographic coverage is incomplete.
Family: Osmeridae · Clear filter
| Species | Classification | Source status |
|---|---|---|
| Shishamo marine smeltHypomesus japonicus (Brevoort, 1856) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Japanese smeltHypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963 | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| osmeridae pond smeltHypomesus olidus (Pallas, 1814) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| surf smeltHypomesus pretiosus (Girard, 1854) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| delta smeltHypomesus transpacificus McAllister, 1963 | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| CapelinMallotus catervarius (Pennant, 1784) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| capelinMallotus villosus (Müller, 1776) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| European smeltOsmerus eperlanus (Linnaeus, 1758) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| rainbow smeltOsmerus mordax (Mitchill, 1814) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| Spirinchus lanceolatus (Hikita, 1913) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| night smeltSpirinchus starksi (Fisk, 1913) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
| longfin smeltSpirinchus thaleichthys (Ayres, 1860) | OsmeridaeChordata | Accepted speciesExtinction status not supplied |
Source and selection
Bánki, O., Roskov, Y., Döring, M., Ower, G., Hernández Robles, D. R., Plata Corredor, C. A., Stjernegaard Jeppesen, T., Örn, A., Pape, T., Hobern, D., Garnett, S., Little, H., DeWalt, R. E., Miller, J., Orrell, T., Aalbu, R., Abbott, J., Aedo, C., Aescht, E., et al. (2026). Catalogue of Life (Version 2026-09-11). Catalogue of Life Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.48580/dgz5n
First records in source order under phylum quotas, then source-order overflow if a quota is short. This is a selective snapshot. Source name strings can include author names, which are also searchable.