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Thaleichthys pacificus (Candlefish; Eulachon; Small fish; Salvation fish; Oilfish; Fathom fish; Eurachon; smelt; Columbia River smelt; Euclachon smelt)

Synonyms: Lestidium parri; Osmerus albatrossis; Osmerus pacificus; Salmo pacificus; Thaleichthys stevensi
Language: Alutiiq; Chinook; Danish; Dutch; Finnish; French; German; Haida; Italian; Mandarin Chinese; Nass-Gitksan; Polish; Portuguese; Russian; Salish; Spanish; Swedish; Tsimshian

Wikipedia Abstract

The eulachon (Thaleichthys pacificus), also oolichan, hooligan, ooligan, or candlefish, is a small anadromous ocean fish, a smelt found along the Pacific coast of North America from northern California to Alaska.
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Attributes

Adult Length [1]  8 inches (20 cm)
Brood Dispersal [2]  In the open
Brood Egg Substrate [2]  Lithophils (gravel-sand)
Brood Guarder [2]  No
Litter Size [1]  60,000
Maximum Longevity [1]  5 years
Migration [3]  Anadromous
Diet [3]  Carnivore
Female Maturity [1]  2 years 6 months
Male Maturity [4]  2 years 6 months

Protected Areas

Prey / Diet

Gadus chalcogrammus (Whiting)[5]
Thaleichthys pacificus (Candlefish)[5]
Thysanoessa inermis[5]
Thysanoessa spinifera[5]

Predators

Consumers

Parasitized by 
Lecithaster gibbosus[10]
Pronoprymna petrowi[10]

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Frimpong, E.A., and P. L. Angermeier. 2009. FishTraits: a database of ecological and life-history traits of freshwater fishes of the United States. Fisheries 34:487-495.
♦ 2Alaska Wildlife Notebook Series, Alaska Department of Fish and Game
♦ 3Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Ecological Informatics 29(1): 45-56. Szoboszlai AI, Thayer JA, Wood SA, Sydeman WJ, Koehn LE (2015) Data from: Forage species in predator diets: synthesis of data from the California Current. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 7Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9Trophic Role of the Pacific Whiting, Merluccius productus, P. A. LIVINGSTON and K. M. BAILEY, Marine Fisheries Review 47(2), 1985, p. 16-22
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0