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*Maulisia acuticeps Sazonov, 1976. Dark Tubeshoulder. To 25.5 cm (10.0 in) SL (Sazonov et al. 1993).
Atlantic and Pacific oceans; off Japan and Australia; western Bering Sea east of Karaginskiy Island; Peru
and possibly off Islas Galápagos. Mesopelagic and bathypelagic, at depths of about 200–1,500 m (656–
4,921 ft), with possible records to 2,000–2,600 m (6,562–8,530 ft). All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Maulisia argipalla Matsui & Rosenblatt, 1979. Pitted Tubeshoulder. To 19.5 cm (7.7 in) SL (Sazonov et al.
1993). Circumglobal; Sea of Okhotsk; western Bering Sea near Karaginskiy Trench, eastern Bering Sea
north of Semisopochnoi Island, and southern British Columbia (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Chile,
including Gulf of California (Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987). Mesopelagic and bathypelagic, at depths of
475–1,340 m (1,558–4,396 ft) (min.: Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987; max.: Sazonov et al. 1993).
Mentodus eubranchus (Matsui & Rosenblatt, 1987). To 11.4 cm (4.5 in) SL (Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987).
Oregon (Matarese et al. 1989) to Gulf of California and Pacific coast of Mexico, and central Pacific
(Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987). Bathypelagic, below 1,000 m (3,280 ft; Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987).
Sagamichthys abei Parr, 1953. Shining Tubeshoulder. To 27.2 cm (10.7 in) SL (Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987).
Southern Japan and Okhotsk Sea to Bering Sea (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to southern Chile (Matsui
and Rosenblatt 1987). Primarily mesopelagic, adults at depths of about 200–1,240 m (656–4,068 ft)
(min.: Matsui and Rosenblatt 1987; max.: Sazonov et al. 1993). Reported from shallower depths but
these records likely represent juveniles; e.g., a record from 37 m (121 ft; Berry and Perkins 1966) was
considered a mistake by Matsui and Rosenblatt (1987), and one from 94 m (308 ft; LACM 34566.006) is
a specimen only 1.6 cm (0.6 in) in length.
Order Salmoniformes
Family Osmeridae — Smelts
Allosmerus elongatus (Ayres, 1854). Whitebait Smelt. To 22.9 cm (9 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Vancouver
Island, British Columbia to San Francisco, northern California (Eschmeyer and Herald 1983). Eschmeyer
and Herald also list a questionable record from San Pedro, southern California. Shallow water (Eschmeyer
and Herald 1983), perhaps to 103 m (338 ft; Wilkins et al. 1998).
**Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963. Wakasagi. To 19.5 cm (7.8 in) SL (Saruwatari et al. 1997).
Widespread in Japan; introduced to California lakes in 1959 (Saruwatari et al. 1997), now in Sacramento–
San Joaquin Estuary (Aasen et al. 1998). Primarily a brackish-water species; found also in fresh water,
commonly from transplants (Saruwatari et al. 1997). Originally classified as a subspecies, Hypomesus
transpacificus nipponensis, and still classified that way by some authors.
Hypomesus olidus (Pallas, 1814). Pond Smelt. To 20 cm (8 in) TL (Page and Burr 1991). North Korea and Japan
to northern Siberia and drainages of Canada and Alaska from Coronation Gulf, Northwest Territories
to Copper River on the northeastern Gulf of Alaska coast. Freshwater species, only occasionally entering
brackish water. All in Mecklenburg et al. (2002).
Hypomesus pretiosus (Girard, 1854). Surf Smelt. To 30.5 cm (12 in) TL (Hart 1973). North side of Alaska
Peninsula at Izembek Bay and Gulf of Alaska (Mecklenburg et al. 2002) to Long Beach, southern
California (Miller and Lea 1972). Near coast, including surf zone, sometimes found in brackish water
and rarely in fresh water (Mecklenburg et al. 2002, Safronov and Nikiforov 2003). Often seen as H.
pretiosus pretiosus, this form was raised to full species status in a revision of the family by Saruwatari et
al. (1997).
Hypomesus transpacificus McAllister, 1963. Delta Smelt. To 12 cm (4.75 in) TL (Page and Burr 1991).
Brackish and freshwater habitats of the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems, California (Miller
and Lea 1972, Saruwatari et al. 1997).