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Allosmerus elongatus (Ayres, 1854). Whitebait Smelt. To 22.9 cm (9 in) TL (Miller and Lea 1972). Vancouver Island, British Columbia (Pietsch and Orr 2019) to southern California (34��24���N) (Bradburn et al. 2011). Eschmeyer and Herald also list a questionable record from San Pedro, southern California. Depth: shallow water to 495 m (1,624 ft) (min.: Pietsch and Orr 2019; max.: NWFSC-FRAM). Although the maximum depth record comes from a bottom trawl catch, thus raising the question of whether that fish entered the net in the midwater during deployment and retrieval, we note that there are many bottom trawl catch records from between 300 (984 ft) and 495 m in the DFO and NWFSC-FRAM databases. Thus the maximum depth record of 495 m seems reasonable. An ��� Allosmerus elongatus ��� from Bristol Bay, Alaska (Personal communication: University of Washington, Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture Fish Collection, Seattle, Washington) is an Osmerus sp. (Katherine Maslenikov)., Published as part of Love, Milton S., Bizzarro, Joseph J., Cornthwaite, Maria, Frable, Benjamin W. & Maslenikov, Katherine P., 2021, Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, pp. 1-285 in Zootaxa 5053 (1) on page 51, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5053.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/5578008, {"references":["Miller, D. J. & Lea, R. N. (1972) Guide to the coastal marine fishes of California. California Department of Fish and Game Fish Bulletin, 157.","Pietsch, T. W. & Orr, J. W. (2019) Fishes of the Salish Sea. University of Washington Press, Seattle.","Bradburn, M. J., Keller, A. A. & Horness, B. H. (2011) The 2003 to 2008 U. S. West Coast bottom trawl surveys of groundfish resources off Washington, Oregon, and California: estimates of distribution, abundance, length, and age composition. National Marine Fisheries Service Technical Memorandum, NMFS-NWFSC- 114."]}