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Rainbow Smelt (Osmerus mordax)
Scientific name: Osmerus mordax( Mitchill ) 1815
Preferred common name: Rainbow smelt
Other common names: smelt, American smelt, leefish, freshwater smelt, frostfish (Scott and Crossman 1973)
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Salmoniformes
Biological Report 82(11.106)
(pdf file 3.4 MB)
TR EL-82-4
August 1989
NOAA Species of Special Concern Highlights
(pdf file 83 KB)
March 16, 2007
NOAA Species of Special Concern Details
(pdf file 718 KB)
November 1, 2007
Rainbow Smelt-Regional Conservation Plan for U.S. Gulf of Maine
(pdf file 1.8 MB)
2012
Rainbow Smelt Summary
(pdf file 56 KB)
Alaska Department of fish & Game
Rainbow Smelt
(web page 14 KB)
From A Boundary Waters Compendium
The Swanson Party
November 6, 1999
Rainbow Smelt
Link to Fishbase
Saltwater Smelt
(web page)
By Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder
FISHERY BULLETIN 74
FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Volume 53
[Contribution No. 592, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]
UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE - Washington: 1953
The Historical Decline Of The Rainbow Smelt “Osmerus mordax” In Connecticut’s Coastal Waters
(pdf file 309 KB)
University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service
September 1, 1989
Fourth North American Workshop on Rainbow Smelt
(pdf file 129 KB)
Holiday Inn by the Bay
Portland, Maine
January 24-25, 2011