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Osmeridae
capelin
Mallotus villosus
Swarming at ice shelf edges
- Polar
- Circumpolar Arctic
- Northern Hemisphere
- Regional distribution
- Atlantic Ocean
- Pacific Ocean
- East Asia
- North America
- Polar regions
- Elongated
- Medium
- Cold-water fish
Polar
Regional distribution
Atlantic Ocean
Elongated
Mediumcapelin is a marine fish found around Circumpolar in the Arctic. It inhabits marine waters. The largest recorded length is 20 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Smelts and Allies
- Family
- Osmeridae
- Genus
- Mallotus
- Maximum length
- 20 cm
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Circumpolar in the Arctic. North Atlantic: Barents Sea up to Bear Island, in the White and Norwegian seas, off the coast of Greenland up to 76°30'N and from Hudson Bay in Canada to Gulf of Maine, USA. North Pacific: south to Korea and Juan de Fuca Strait, Canada.
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