Genetic Relationships among Smelt, Genus Osmerus
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Journal or Book Title: Copeia
Volume/Issue: 1982/3
Page Number(s): 725-728
Year Published: 1982
The genus OsÂmerus is represented by anadromous and land locked forms in the Pacific, Arctic and Atlantic oceans and their drainages. Despite numerous efforts to clarify taxonomy within the genus in cluding a systematic revision of the Osmeridae (McAllister, 1963), the relationships remain ob scure. McAllister ( 1963) divided Osmerus into a European 0. eperlanus eperlanus and an Arctic, Pacific and western Atlantic 0. e. mordax, but indicated that should sympatric noninterbreed ing populations of these two subspecies be found, it would be necessary to consider them full species.
Type of Publication: Journal Article