''Hypomesus'' is a

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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 nipponensis ''Hypomesus nipponensis'' (Japanese smelt, in Japanese: ''wakasagi'') is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia. It has ...

'' McAllister, 1963 (Japanese smelt) * '' Hypomesus olidus'' (

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, 1814) (Pond smelt) * '' Hypomesus pretiosus'' ( Girard, 1854) (Surf smelt) * ''

Hypomesus transpacificus The delta smelt (''Hypomesus transpacificus'') is an endangered slender-bodied smelts, smelt, about long, in the family Osmeridae. Endemic to the upper Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Sacramento-San Joaquin Estuary of California, it mainly i ...

'' McAllister, 1963 (Delta smelt) The pond smelt ''H. olidus'' is widespread across northeastern

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, and northwestern

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, while the Delta smelt ''H. transpacificus'' is an endangered species of the Sacramento Delta in

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. '' H. chishimaensis'' was at one time thought to be a separate species, but has since been identified as a population of ''H. nipponensis''.

References

Extant Chattian first appearances Chattian genus first appearances Marine fish genera Freshwater fish genera Ray-finned fish genera Taxa named by Theodore Gill {{Osmeriformes-stub