Specimen Information

Osmerus mordax
Osmerus mordax
(Rainbow Smelt)
Fishes
Native Transplant

Specimen ID35216
GroupFishes
GenusOsmerus
Speciesmordax
Common NameRainbow Smelt
StateMD
LocalityYoughiogheny drainage
Mapping AccuracyCentroid
Centroid TypeHUC8
HUC8 NameYoughiogheny
HUC8 Number05020006
Map
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Collection Year1979
Year AccuracyPublication Year
Potential Pathwaystocked for forage
Statuscollected
Reference 1
Ref. Number:1406
Author:Hendricks, M.L., J.R. Stauffer, Jr., C.H. Hocutt, and C.R. Gilbert
Date:1979
Title:A preliminary checklist of the fishes of the Youghiogheny River.
Journal:Chicago Academy of Sciences
Volume:203
Pages:1-15
Reference 2
Ref. Number:1819
Author:Hendricks, M.L., J.R. Stauffer, Jr., and C.H. Hocutt
Date:1983
Title:The zoogeography of the fishes of the Youghiogheny River system, Pennsylvania, Maryland and West Virginia.
Journal:American Midland Naturalist
Volume:110
Issue:1
Pages:145-164
Commentsnot collected in 1977 sampling
Record TypeLiterature
Freshwater/MarineFreshwater


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