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Atherinops affinis (Topsmelt silverside; Topsmelt)

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Wikipedia Abstract

Atherinops affinis, the topsmelt silverside or simply topsmelt, is a species of Neotropical silverside native to the eastern Pacific Ocean. This fish is found along the west coast of North America from southern British Columbia to Baja California. It is marine and it often schools in relatively shallow water such as estuaries, bays, rocky intertidal zones and kelp forests, where it feeds on zooplankton. This is a common fish of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in California. The topsmelt is silver, with a shiny silver lateral band running its length, and blue or green coloration dorsally.. Their gills are a golden-yellow. The eyes of the topsmelt are small and beady. Its top lip is folded down. Topsmelts have long pectoral fins compared to other fish. On the jaw
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Attributes

Maximum Longevity [1]  9 years

Protected Areas

Ecosystems

Prey / Diet

Atherinops affinis (Topsmelt silverside)[2]
Nippoleucon hinumensis[3]
Sinocorophium alienense[3]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Leptocottus armatus (Cabezon)1
Menidia beryllina (Waxen silverside)2

Predators

Consumers

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Citations

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♦ 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.
♦ 2Jorrit 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.
♦ 3Community composition and diet of fishes as a function of tidal channel geomorphology, Tammie A. Visintainer, Stephen M. Bollens, Charles Simenstad, Mar Ecol Prog Ser 321: 227–243, 2006
♦ 4Szoboszlai 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.
♦ 5Lafferty, K. D., R. F. Hechinger, J. C. Shaw, K. L. Whitney and A. M. Kuris (in press) Food webs and parasites in a salt marsh ecosystem. In Disease ecology: community structure and pathogen dynamics (eds S. Collinge and C. Ray). Oxford University Press, Oxford.
♦ 6Food 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
♦ 7THE FEEDING HABITS OF SPOTTED SAND BASS (PARALABRAX MACULATOFASCIATUS) IN PUNTA BANDA ESTUARY, ENSENADA, BAJA CALIFORNIA, MEXICO, MANUEL MENDOZA-CARRANZA AND JORGE A. ROSALES-CASIÁN, CalCOFl Rep., Vol. 41, 2000, p. 194-200
♦ 8Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
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