Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister 1963

• Main Authors: Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W., Maslenikov, Katherine P.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Chordata; Actinopterygii; Osmeriformes; Osmeridae; Hypomesus; Hypomesus nipponensis; Yukon; Milton; McAllister; Aasen; Beaufort Sea; Sakhalin; Alaska
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/5601542; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5601542

** Hypomesus nipponensis McAllister, 1963. Wakasagi. To 19.5 cm (7.8 in) SL (Saruwatari et al. 1997). Widespread in Japan, Sakhalin Island and environs (Dyldin and Orlov 2016b); introduced to California lakes in 1959 (Saruwatari et al. 1997), now in Sacramento–San Joaquin Estuary (Aasen et al. 1998). Primarily a brackish-water species; found also in fresh water, commonly from transplants (Saruwatari et al. 1997); depth: shallow waters to 50 m (164 ft) (Kim and Kim 2019). Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 51, DOI:10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008