Japanese Pond Smelt

Hypomesus nipponensis (Japanese smelt, in Japanese: wakasagi) is a commercial food fish native to the lakes and estuaries of northern Honshu and Hokkaido, Japan, Korea, and Sakhalin, Khabarovsk Krai, and Primorsky Krai, Russia. It has been introduced in other locations, including the San Francisco Delta of the United States. It is raised in fisheries, and is very similar in appearance to the delta smelt (H. transpacificus).

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Is it venomous or poisonous?

We have no record of Japanese Pond Smelt being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.

Easily confused with

• Osmerus mordax
• Osmerus eperlanus
• Spirinchus thaleichthys
• Hypomesus pretiosus
• Retropinna retropinna
• Anchoa hepsetus

Classification

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Chordata

Class

Actinopterygii

Order

Osmeriformes

Family

Osmeridae

Genus

Hypomesus

Species

Hypomesus nipponensis

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