Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 28 - 34. Snout moderate, about 3/4 eye diameter; maxilla moderate, tip obliquely rounded, almost reaching to pre-operculum; gill cover canals of panamensis-type. Pectoral fins long, reaching to or just beyond pelvic fin base; anal fin very long, its origin under or just before or behind dorsal fin origin. A silver stripe along flank, about 3/4 eye diameter.

Common Names

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Sardel mexcaltitánská , Czech , Czechia

Longfin Pacific anchovy , English , Mexico

Longfin Pacific anchovy , English , Global

Pikkuim-antšoa , Estonian , Estonia

Anchois aile-longue du Pacifique , French , Global

Anchois mexicain , French , France

类小鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China

長鰭小公魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

长鳍小公鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

類小鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Anchoa aletona , Spanish , Mexico

Anchoa aletona , Spanish , Spain

Anchoa aletona del Pacifico , Spanish , Mexico

Anchoa aletona del Pacífico , Spanish , Global

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoa

Species: Anchoa analis (Miller, 1945)

Climate Zone

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Subtropical

Location

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Eastern Pacific: coast of Mexico from the Yaqui River south to about Tuxpan, Nayarit.

Biology

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Occurs in shallow coastal waters (lagoons or estuaries), but apparently not in the sea. Inhabits somewhat murky brackish to salt water over mud or firm sand with a veneer of mud. One of the top three dominant fishes in the Huizache-Caimanero lagoon system in Mexico.

Habitat

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brackish