Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 21 - 26. Body somewhat compressed and slender. Snout less than eye diameter; maxilla long, tip pointed, reaching almost to gill opening; gill cover canals of walkeri-type. Anal fin moderately long, its origin below about midpoint of dorsal fin base. A silver stripe along flank, a little less than eye diameter (Ref. 189). Melanophores on underside of snout do not reach premaxillae, leaving an unpigmented area (Ref. 7251).

Common Names

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Sardel floridská , Czech , Czechia

Key anchovy , English , Bahamas

Key anchovy , English , Belize

Key Anchovy , English , Cuba

Key anchovy , English , Puerto Rico

Key anchovy , English , USA

Key anchovy , English , Global

Florida antšoa , Estonian , Estonia

Anchois de Floride , French , France

加勒比小鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

加勒比小鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Anchoa de cayo , Spanish , Mexico

Anchoa de Florida , Spanish , Spain

Camaiguana de los cayos , Spanish , Venezuela

Manjuá , Spanish , Cuba

Manjúa De Los Cayos , Spanish , Cuba

Manjuá de los cayos , Spanish , Cuba

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoa

Species: Anchoa cayorum (Fowler, 1906)

Climate Zone

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Subtropical

Location

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Western Central Atlantic: Florida Keys, Cuba, Bahamas, Antilles, Los Roques Archipelago off Venezuela; from Yucatan, Mexico possibly to western Venezuela; not in Gulf of Mexico. If correctly identified, then it occurs in Sibun River, Belize.

Biology

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A schooling fish, apparently preferring clear oceanic waters.

Habitat

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oceanic