Smelt may refer to: *

Smelting Smelting is a process of applying heat and a chemical reducing agent to an ore to extract a desired base metal product. It is a form of extractive metallurgy that is used to obtain many metals such as iron-making, iron, copper extraction, copper ...

, chemical process * The common name of various fish: **

Smelt (fish) Smelts are a family of small fish, the Osmeridae, found in the North Atlantic and North Pacific oceans, as well as rivers, streams and lakes in Europe, North America and Northeast Asia. They are also known as freshwater smelts or typical smelts ...

, a family of small fish, Osmeridae ** Australian smelt in the family Retropinnidae and species ''Retropinna semoni'' **

Big-scale sand smelt The big-scale sand smelt (''Atherina boyeri'') is a species of fish in the family Atherinidae. It is a euryhaline amphidromous fish, up to 20 cm in length. Description It is a small pelagic fish species which occurs near the surface in the ...

''Atherina boyeri'' **

Deep-sea smelt The deep-sea smelts are any members of the family Bathylagidae, a distinct group of marine smelts. Deep-sea smelts are marine fishes found in deep waters throughout the oceans, down to in depth. They are small fishes, growing up to long. They ...

s in the family Bathylagidae ** Great Lakes smelts (North American) in the family Osmeridae and genera '' Allosmerus'' (also called whitebait smelt), ''

Hypomesus ''Hypomesus'' is a genus of smelts ( Osmeridae), consisting of five species found in the northern hemisphere. Species There are currently five recognized species in this genus: * '' Hypomesus japonicus'' ( Brevoort, 1856) * ''Hypomesus nippone ...

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Osmerus ''Osmerus'' is a genus of smelt. Species There are currently four recognized species in this genus: * '' Osmerus eperlanus'' (Linnaeus, 1758) (European smelt) * '' Osmerus mordax'' (Mitchill, 1814) ** '' Osmerus mordax dentex'' Steindachner & ...

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Spirinchus ''Spirinchus'' is a genus of smelt (fish), smelts (Osmeridae) from the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent streams. Species There are currently three recognized species in this genus: * ''Spirinchus lanceolatus'' (Toyoji Hikita, Hikita, 1913) (Shis ...

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Thaleichthys The eulachon ( (''Thaleichthys pacificus''), also spelled oolichan , ooligan , hooligan ), or the candlefish, is a small anadromous species of smelt that spawns in some of the major river systems along the Pacific coast of North America from no ...

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Herring smelt Herring are various species of forage fish, belonging to the order Clupeiformes. Herring often move in large schools around fishing banks and near the coast, found particularly in shallow, temperate waters of the North Pacific and North Atlanti ...

of the family Argentinidae **

Mediterranean sand smelt The Mediterranean sand smelt, ''Atherina hepsetus'', is a species of fish in the family Atherinidae that inhabits the littoral zone of the east Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Description The body is rather long, slender and moder ...

, ''Atherina hepsetus'' **

New Zealand smelt The New Zealand smelt (''Retropinna retropinna''), also known as the New Zealand common smelt, New Zealand cucumber fish, or silveries is a smelt of the family Retropinnidae, found only in New Zealand New Zealand () is an island coun ...

in the family Retropinnidae and species ''Retropinna retropinna'' ** some species in

Silverside Silverside may refer to: * Silverside (beef), a cut of beef * Silverside (fish), the Atheriniformes, an order of fish * Agnes Silverside (died 1557), one of the Colchester Martyrs * USS ''Silversides'', the name of 2 U.S. Navy submarines * Silvers ...

family Atherinidae **

Smelt-whiting The Sillaginidae, commonly known as the smelt-whitings, whitings, sillaginids, sand borers and sand-smelts, are a family (biology), family of benthic coastal Marine (ocean), marine fish historically classified in the order (biology), order Percif ...

s in the family Sillaginidae **

Whitebait smelt ''Allosmerus'' is a monotypic genus of smelt. Its sole species, ''Allosmerus elongatus'', the whitebait smelt, is an uncommon Northeast Pacific smelt, about which little is known. Originally described as both ''Osmerus attenuatus'' and ''O. elo ...

s (North American) in the family Osmeridae and genera: '' Allosmerus'', ''

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See also