Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 20 - 25. Body fairly elongate. Snout moderate, about 3/4 eye diameter; maxilla moderate, tip pointed, reaching onto inter-operculum, but not to edge of gill cover; gill cover canals of walkeri-type. Anal fin moderate, its origin usually somewhat before midpoint of dorsal fin base. A silver stripe along flank, about 3/4 eye diameter.

Common Names

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Sardel půvabná , Czech , Czechia

Slough anchovy , English , USA

Slough anchovy , English , Global

Õrn antšoa , Estonian , Estonia

Anchois doux , French , France

Anchois savoureux , French , France

綠小鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

绿小鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Anchoa delicada , Spanish , Mexico

Anchoa delicada , Spanish , Mexico

Anchoa delicada , Spanish , Spain

Anchoa dulce , Spanish , Spain

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoa

Species: Anchoa delicatissima (Girard, 1854)

Climate Zone

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Subtropical

Location

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Eastern Central Pacific: Belmont Shores, Long Beach Harbor, California, USA south to Magdalena Bay on the Pacific coast of Baja California; not in Gulf of California.

Biology

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Reportedly common in estuaries and backwaters of bays and occasionally near shores outside bays (Ref. 6792). The fifth most abundant fish taken by various gear in Newport Bay, California; a midwater schooling species caught in bag seine hauls mainly in July and September (Ref. 6361). Oviparous, with planktonic eggs and larvae (Ref. 35602).

Habitat

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brackish