| Specimen ID | 35478 |
| Group | Fishes |
| Genus | Osmerus |
| Species | mordax |
| Common Name | Rainbow Smelt |
| State | MI |
| Locality | Lake Superior |
| Mapping Accuracy | Centroid |
| Centroid Type | |
| HUC8 Name | Lake Superior |
| HUC8 Number | 04180000 |
| Map | |
| Collection Year | 1923 |
| Year Accuracy | Actual |
| Potential Pathway | stocked for forage |
| Status | established |
| Reference 1 |
| Ref. Number: | 460 |
| Author: | Emery, L. |
| Date: | 1985 |
| Title: | Review of fish introduced into the Great Lakes, 1819-1974. Technical Report No. 45. |
| Publisher: | Great Lakes Fishery Commission, Ann Arbor, MI. |
| Pages: | 31 pp |
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| Reference 2 |
| Ref. Number: | 275 |
| Author: | Lee, D.S., C.R. Gilbert, C.H. Hocutt, R.E. Jenkins, D.E. McAllister, and J.R. Stauffer, Jr. |
| Date: | 1980 |
| Title: | Atlas of North American freshwater fishes. |
| Publisher: | North Carolina State Museum of Natural History |
| Issue: | 12 |
| Pages: | 854 pp |
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| Comments | also see record 1407. The 1912 stocking of smelt eggs in Crystal Lake, MI, which drains into Lake Michigan is credited with the establishment of the species in Lake Michigan and eventually the other lakes but Ontario. Origin of smelt in Lake Ontari |
| Record Type | Literature |
| Freshwater/Marine | Freshwater |
