''Spirinchus'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
smelts (
Osmeridae) from the North Pacific Ocean and adjacent streams.
Species
There are currently three recognized species in this genus:
* ''
Spirinchus lanceolatus''
( Hikita, 1913)
* ''
Spirinchus starksi''
( Fisk, 1913) (Night smelt)
* ''
Spirinchus thaleichthys''
( Ayres, 1860) (Longfin smelt)
References
*
Extant Pliocene first appearances
Marine fish genera
Taxa named by David Starr Jordan
Taxa named by Barton Warren Evermann
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