Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 17 - 21. Body somewhat compressed. Snout pointed, about 3/4 eye diameter; maxilla long, tip pointed, reaching to hind margin of pre-operculum; gill cover canals of panamensis-type. Anal fin short. Anus nearer to anal fin origin than to pectoral fin tips. A narrow silver stripe along flank, about width of pupil.

Common Names

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Sardel colónská , Czech , Czechia

Narrow-striped anchovy , English , Belize

Narrow-striped anchovy , English , Global

Narrowstriped anchovy , English , Mexico

Peentriip-antšoa , Estonian , Estonia

Anchois à bande étroite , French , France

窄带小鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China

窄帶小鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Anchoa banda estrecha , Spanish , Spain

Anchoa rayita , Spanish , Mexico

Manjúa , Spanish , Cuba

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoa

Species: Anchoa colonensis Hildebrand, 1943

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Central Atlantic: Greater and Lesser Antilles to Trinidad; Venezuela westward to Panama and Yucatan. Not separated from Anchoa hepsetus until recently; references to Caribbean 'hepsetus' may refer to Anchoa colonensis.

Biology

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Forms dense schools, often in shallow waters close to shore. Probably similar to A. hepsetus in other aspects of its biology.

Habitat

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neritic