WoRMS taxon details
Spirinchus thaleichthys (Ayres, 1860)
282844 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:282844)
accepted
Species
Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860 · unaccepted
Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860) Ayres, W. O. (1860). [Descriptions of new species of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2: 60-64. [Read at meeting of 6 Aug. 1860.]. [details]
Froese, R. and D. Pauly. Editors. (2026). FishBase. Spirinchus thaleichthys (Ayres, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=282844 on 2026-07-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860) Ayres, W. O. (1860). [Descriptions of new species of fishes.]. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences (Series 1).</em> v. 2: 60-64. [Read at meeting of 6 Aug. 1860.]. [details]
original description (of Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934) Schultz, L. P.; Chapman, W. M. (1934). A new osmerid fish, Spirinchus dilatus, from Puget Sound. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 10).</em> 13(73) (art. 3): 67-78, Pls. 2-3., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933408654792 [details]
original description (of Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934) Schultz, L. P.; Chapman, W. M. (1934). A new osmerid fish, Spirinchus dilatus, from Puget Sound. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History (Series 10).</em> 13(73) (art. 3): 67-78, Pls. 2-3., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222933408654792 [details]
Ecology
ecology source
Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. <em>Scientific Data.</em> 10(1). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-02745-4 [details] 
Other
additional source
Froese, R. & D. Pauly (Editors). (2026). FishBase. World Wide Web electronic publication. version (04/2025)., available online at https://www.fishbase.org [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) (from synonym Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Spirinchus thaleichthys)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860)
To FishBase (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To GenBank (115 nucleotides; 98 proteins) (from synonym Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860)
To GenBank (115 nucleotides; 98 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Osmerus thaleichthys P19370 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Spirinchus thaleichthys P15365 illustration) (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Spirinchus thaleichthys P15383 illustration) (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications) (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) (from synonym Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Spirinchus thaleichthys)
To FishBase
To FishBase (from synonym Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860)
To FishBase (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To GenBank (115 nucleotides; 98 proteins) (from synonym Osmerus thaleichthys Ayres, 1860)
To GenBank (115 nucleotides; 98 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Osmerus thaleichthys P19370 illustration)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Spirinchus thaleichthys P15365 illustration) (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Spirinchus thaleichthys P15383 illustration) (from synonym Spirinchus dilatus Schultz & Chapman, 1934)
To ITIS
