| Specimen ID | 42992 |
| Group | Fishes |
| Genus | Osmerus |
| Species | mordax |
| Common Name | Rainbow Smelt |
| State | TN |
| Locality | Mississippi River |
| Mapping Accuracy | Approximate |
| HUC8 Name | Lower Mississippi-Memphis |
| HUC8 Number | 08010100 |
| Map | |
| Collection Year | 1978 |
| Year Accuracy | Actual |
| Potential Pathway | stocked for forage |
| Status | established |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 705 |
| Author: | Etnier, D.A., and W.C. Starnes. |
| Date: | 1993 |
| Title: | The fishes of Tennessee. |
| Publisher: | The University of Tennessee Press |
| Pages: | 681 pp |
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| Comments | May have spread through the Missouri to the Mississippi from stockings in North Dakota in 1971. Or may be from Lake Michigan via the Illinois River. No adults ever collected. |
| Record Type | Literature |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
