Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 19 - 22. Body moderately compressed and slender. Snout short, about 3/4 the eye diameter; maxilla long, its tip sharply pointed, reaching almost to the gill opening; gill cover canals of the walkeri-type. A silver stripe is on the sides.

Common Names

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Sardel bermudská , Czech , Czechia

Bermuda anchovy , English , Global

Hog-mouth fry , English , Barbados

Hogmouth fry , English , Barbados

Hogmouth fry , English , Bermuda

Hogmouth fry , English , Haiti

White fray , English , Barbados

White fry , English , Barbados

Bermuda antšoa , Estonian , Estonia

百慕大小公魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

百慕大小公鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

百慕大小鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

百慕大小鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoa

Species: Anchoa choerostoma (Goode, 1874)

Climate Zone

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Temperate

Location

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Western Central Atlantic: known only from Bermuda. The Panama and Puerto Rico specimens reported in Ref. 6791 were not this species, but perhaps Anchoa lyolepis).

Biology

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A schooling species occurring in coastal waters. Apparently common (at least in August, but not in July). Specimens with well developed eggs were taken in June, 1927, suggesting a summer spawning period.

Habitat

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neritic