Species: Mallotus villosus
Capelin
Species
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Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Actinopterygii
Order
Osmeriformes
Family
Osmeridae
Genus
Mallotus
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Classification
Other Global Common Names
capelan
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Fishes - Bony Fishes - Other Bony Fishes
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Actinopterygii - Osmeriformes - Osmeridae - Mallotus - , not generally recognized (Pahlke 1985).
Ecology and Life History
Short General Description
A small, marine smelt-like fish.
Habitat Type Description
Marine
Migration
false - false - false
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
2008-01-25
Global Status Last Changed
2005-09-12
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
This circumboreal-Arctic species ranges from the Beaufort Sea to the Strait of Juan de Fuca in the eastern Pacific Ocean, across southern Arctic Canada, and south in the western Atlantic to Cape Cod, Massachusetts. In the western Pacific, the range extends to Japan and Korea, Sea of Okhotsk (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Five independent stocks likely in the Bering Sea (Naumenko 1996), 4 or 5 stocks are believed to occur off Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean (Carscadden 1981, Nakashima 1992). This species is often associated with the polar ice edge.