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Scientific name: Osmerus mordax( Mitchill ) 1815
Preferred common name: Rainbow smelt
Other common names: smelt, American smelt, leefish, freshwater smelt, frostfish (Scott and Crossman 1973)
Class: Osteichthyes
Order: Salmoniformes
Family: Osmeridae

• Biological Report 82(11.106) (pdf file 3.4 MB)
  TR EL-82-4
  August 1989
• NOAA Species of Special Concern Highlights (pdf file 83 KB)
  March 16, 2007
• NOAA Species of Special Concern Details (pdf file 718 KB)
  November 1, 2007
• Rainbow Smelt Summary (pdf file 56 KB)
  Alaska Department of fish & Game
• Rainbow Smelt (web page 14 KB)
  From A Boundary Waters Compendium
  The Swanson Party
  November 6, 1999
• Rainbow Smelt (web page 15 KB)
  From Fishbase
  1973
• Saltwater Smelt (web page)
  
  By Henry B. Bigelow and William C. Schroeder
  FISHERY BULLETIN 74
  FISHERY BULLETIN OF THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
  Volume 53
  [Contribution No. 592, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution]
  UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE - Washington: 1953
• The Historical Decline Of The Rainbow Smelt “Osmerus mordax” In Connecticut’s Coastal Waters (pdf file 309 KB)
  University of Connecticut Cooperative Extension Service
  September 1, 1989
• Fourth North American Workshop on Rainbow Smelt (pdf file 129 KB)
  Holiday Inn by the Bay
  Portland, Maine
  January 24-25, 2011