Rainbow Smelt

Osmerus mordax (Mitchill 1814)

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Osmerus mordax (Rainbow Smelt) is a species of ray-finned fishes in the family smelts. They are listed as endangered by COSEWIC. They are associated with freshwater habitat. Individuals are known to live for 7 years.

URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/endangered
Definition: A taxon is Endangered when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the \r\ncriteria A to E for Endangered, and it is therefore considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
Source: https://species-registry.canada.ca/index-en.html#/species

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URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000873
Definition: A biome that applies to the freshwater realm.

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EOL has data for 22 attributes, including:

parasitized by
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002445
- Comment: Auto-added during harvest #37. A human needs to edit this.
- Attribution: Global Biotic Interactions
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Osmerus mordax (Mitchill 1814) (Rainbow smelt)
body size
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/OBA_VT0100005
- Definition: The size of a multicellular organism
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35.6 cm
conservation status
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#ConservationStatus
- Definition: degree of conservation concern as assessed by a government agency or other recognized authority such as IUCN or CITES
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endangered
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/endangered
- Definition: A taxon is Endangered when the best available evidence indicates that it meets any of the \r\ncriteria A to E for Endangered, and it is therefore considered to be facing a very high risk of extinction in the wild.
- Attribution: http://www.iucnredlist.org/technical-documents/categories-and-criteria
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geographic distribution includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Present
- Definition: This organism is known to be present in this location or region. Not exclusive; other regions may also be reported.
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United States
- URI: http://www.geonames.org/6252001
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habitat
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/habitat
- Definition: A category or description of the habitat in which the Event occurred.
- Comment: Example: "oak savanna", "pre-cordilleran steppe"
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marine
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00000569
- Definition: A habitat that is in or on a sea or ocean containing high concentrations of dissolved salts and other total dissolved solids (typically >35 grams dissolved salts per litre).
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habitat includes
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/Habitat
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coastal water
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/ENVO_00002150
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has ectoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002633
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Osmerus mordax (Mitchill 1814) (Rainbow smelt)
has endoparasite
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/RO_0002635
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Osmerus mordax (Mitchill 1814) (Rainbow smelt)
population trend
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/population_trend
- Definition: i.e., increasing, decreasing, stable, or unknown
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Unknown
total life span
- URI: http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/VT_0001661
- Definition: The full period of time from birth to death of an organism.
- Comment: Ontology Description: http://bioportal.bioontology.org/ontologies/VT
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7 years
water depth
- URI: http://rs.tdwg.org/dwc/terms/verbatimDepth
- Definition: The depth of seawater at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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184 m
water temperature
- URI: http://eol.org/schema/terms/SeawaterTemperature
- Definition: Temperature of the water at a location where this organism has been observed or collected.
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10.74 degrees celsius

Known occurrences, collected specimens and observations of Rainbow smelt. View this species on GBIF

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