? Capelin
Capelin
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Actinopterygii Order: Osmeriformes Family: Osmeridae Genus: Mallotus Species: villosus
Binomial name
Mallotus villosus Müller, 1776

This article is about the fish. For the plant genus, see Mallotus (plant).

The capelin (Mallotus villosus Müller 1776) is a small fish of the smelt family found in the Arctic Ocean in large quantities. In summer, it grazes on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of the ice shelf. Larger capelin also eats a great deal of krill and other crustaceans. Whales, seals, cod and seabirds all prey on capelin in particular during the spawning season of the capelin while it migrates southwards. Capelin spawns at the age of 2-6 years, and has an extremely high mortality rate after spawning, for males close to 100% mortality. Scan of Mallotus villosus, from Evermann, B.W. and E.L. Goldsborough, 1907. ... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Phyla Porifera (sponges) Ctenophora (comb jellies) Cnidaria Placozoa Subregnum Bilateria  Acoelomorpha  Orthonectida  Rhombozoa  Myxozoa  Superphylum Deuterostomia     Chordata (vertebrates, etc. ... Typical Classes Subphylum Urochordata - Tunicates Ascideiacea Thaliacea Larvacea Subphylum Cephalochordata - Lancelets Subphylum Myxini - Hagfishes Subphylum Vertebrata - Vertebrates Petromyzontida - Lampreys Placodermi (extinct) Chondrichthyes - Cartilaginous fishes Acanthodii (extinct) Actinopterygii - Ray-finned fishes Actinistia - Coelacanths Dipnoi - Lungfishes Amphibia - Amphibians Reptilia - Reptiles Aves - Birds Mammalia - Mammals Chordates (phylum Chordata) include the vertebrates, together with... Orders See text The Actinopterygii are the ray-finned fish. ... Families Suborder Argeninoidei   Superfamily Argentinoidea     Argentinidae (herring smelts)     Microstomatidae     Bathylagidae (deep-sea smelts)     Opisthoproctidae (barreleyes)   Superfamily Alepocephaloidea     Leptochilichthyidae     Alepocephalidae (slickheads)     Platytroctidae     (Searsiidae) Suborder Osmeroidei   Superfamily Osmeroidea     Osmeridae ( smelts)      Plecoglossidae (ayu fishes)     Salangidae (noodlefishes)     Sundasalangidae (Sundaland noodlefishes)   Superfamily Galaxoidea     Retropinnidae (New Zealand smelts)     Lepidogalaxiidae (salamanderfishes)     Galaxiidae Osmeriformes is an order of... In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ... Otto Friedrich Müller Otto Friedrich Müller (March 11, 1730 - December 26, 1784) was a Danish naturalist. ... This article is about the year 1776. ... Species Mallotus apelta Mallotus barbatus Mallotus hookerianus Mallotus paniculatus Mallotus peltatus Mallotus philippensis Mallotus repandus Mallotus is a genus of the spurge family Euphorbiaceae. ... Otto Friedrich Müller Otto Friedrich Müller (March 11, 1730 - December 26, 1784) was a Danish naturalist. ... This article is about the year 1776. ... Groups Conodonta Hyperoartia Petromyzontidae (lampreys) Pteraspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Thelodonti Anaspida Cephalaspidomorphi (early jawless fish) Galeaspida Pituriaspida Osteostraci Gnathostomata (jawed vertebrates) Placodermi Chondrichthyes (cartilaginous fish) Acanthodii Osteichthyes (bony fish) Actinopterygii (ray-finned fish) Sarcopterygii (lobe-finned fish) Actinistia (coelacanths) Dipnoi (lungfish) A fish is a poikilothermic (cold-blooded)* water-dwelling... See smelting for the chemical process. ... Photomontage of plankton organisms Plankton are the weakly swimming but mostly drifting small organisms that inhabit the water column of oceans, seas, and bodies of freshwater. ... Families Euphausiidae Bentheuphausiidae Krill are shrimp-like marine invertebrate animals. ... Classes Class Branchiopoda Subclass Phyllopoda Subclass Sarsostraca Class Remipedia Order Enantiopoda Order Nectiopoda Class Cephalocarida Order Brachypoda Class Maxillopoda Subclass Mystacocarida Subclass Copepoda Subclass Branchiura Subclass Pentastomida Subclass Tantulocarida Subclass Thecostraca Infraclass Cirripedia Class Ostracoda Order Metacopina Subclass Myodocopa Subclass Podocopa Class Malacostraca Subclass Eumalacostraca Subclass Hoplocarida Subclass Phyllocarida The... Whales are the largest species of exclusively aquatic placental mammals, members of the order Cetacea, which also includes dolphins and porpoises. ... subfamilies Otariidae Phocidae Odobenidae Pinnipeds (fin-foots, lit. ... Binomial name Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a well-known foodfish belonging to the family Gadidae. ... Seabirds are birds that spend much of their lives, outside the breeding season at least, at sea. ...

Males reach 20 cm in length, while females are up to 25 cm long. They are olive-colored dorsally, shading to silver on sides and bottom.

In years with large quantities of herring in the Barents Sea, capelin seems to be heavily affected. Probably both food competition and herring feeding on capelin larvae lead to collapses in the capelin stock. Family Clupeidae This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Southeastern portion of Barents Sea, the Kola Peninsula and the White Sea. ...

Commercially capelin is used for fish meal and oil industry products, but is also appreciated as food. Capelin roe is considered as a high value product, particularly in Japan. Fish Oil is oil derived from fishes. ... Salmon roe at the Shiogama seafood market in Japan Look up Roe in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Roe is the fully ripe egg masses of fish and certain marine invertebrates, such as sea urchins and shrimp. ...

Capelin is essential as the key food of the Atlantic cod. The North-East Atlantic Cod and Capelin fisheries therefore are managed by a multi-species approach developed by the main resource owners Norway and Russia. Binomial name Gadus morhua Linnaeus, 1758 The Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) is a well-known foodfish belonging to the family Gadidae. ...