Salangichthys microdon, Japanese icefish : fisheries

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Salangichthys microdon (Bleeker, 1860)

Japanese icefish
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Japan territory information

Common names: Shiraou icefish, Shira-uo, シラウオ
Occurrence: native
Salinity: freshwater
Abundance: common (usually seen) | Ref: Sokolovskaya, T.G., A.S. Sokolovskii and E.I. Sobolevskii, 1998
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Uses: no uses
Comments: Occurs from the Okayama Prefecture to the Abashiri, Kumamoto Prefecture. Hokkaido (Ref. 37812). Also Ref. 34809.
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Territory Information: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/resources/the-world-factbook/geos/ja.html
National Fisheries Authority: http://www.maff.go.jp/eindex.html
Occurrences: Occurrences Point map
Main Ref: Sokolovskaya, T.G., A.S. Sokolovskii and E.I. Sobolevskii, 1998
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Common names from other countries

Whitefish, 뱅어, Nudelfisch, ... more

Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | Catalog of Fishes(genus, species) | ITIS | CoL | WoRMS | Cloffa

Teleostei (teleosts) > Osmeriformes (Freshwater smelts) > Salangidae (Icefishes or noodlefishes)
Etymology: Salangichthys: Philippines, salamga, French salangana = the name of a kind of swallow + Greek, ichthys = fish (Ref. 45335).
More on author: Bleeker.

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Marine; freshwater; brackish; demersal; anadromous (Ref. 138124). Polar; 52°N - 30°N, 99°E - 159°E (Ref. 26213)

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Northwest Pacific: eastern Siberia, Japan, Korea and Russia (Ref. 26334).

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?, range 7 - ? cm
Max length : 10.0 cm TL male/unsexed; (Ref. 56527); max. published weight: 1.50 g (Ref. 56557)

Short description Identification keys | Morphology | Morphometrics

Dorsal soft rays (total): 10 - 13; Anal soft rays: 22 - 28; Vertebrae: 59 - 65.
Body shape (shape guide): elongated.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Marine species which enters rivers and estuaries (Ref. 26334, 37812).

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Roberts, T.R., 1984. Skeletal anatomy and classification of the neotenic Asian salmoniform superfamily Salangoidea (icefishes or noodlefishes). Proc. Calif. Acad. Sci. 43(13):179-220. (Ref. 34809)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2025-2)

  Least Concern (LC) ; Date assessed: 18 March 2020

CITES

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

  Harmless





Human uses

Fisheries: commercial
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