Species: Mallotus villosus

Capelin
Species
    Kingdom
    Animalia
    Phylum
    Craniata
    Class

    Actinopterygii

    Order

    Osmeriformes

    Family

    Osmeridae

    Genus

    Mallotus

    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).
    Short General Description
    A small, marine smelt-like fish.
    Habitat Type Description
    Marine
    Migration
    false - false - false
    Non-migrant
    false
    Locally Migrant
    false
    NatureServe Global Status Rank
    G5
    Global Status Last Reviewed
    2008-01-25
    Global Status Last Changed
    2005-09-12
    Conservation Status Map
    <img src="http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/servlet/GetMapGif?CA.BC=SNR&CA.MB=S5&CA.NT=SNR&CA.QC=S4&US.AK=S5" alt="Conservation Status Map" style="width: 475px; height: auto;" />
    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.
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