Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 17 - 21. Snout long and pointed, only slightly less than eye diameter; maxilla long, tip pointed, reaching almost to gill opening, teeth near tip somewhat enlarged; gill cover canals of panamensis-type; pseudobranch longer than eye diameter, with 30 or more filaments, extending onto inner face of operculum. First pectoral fin ray filamentous. Silver stripe along flank about eye diameter.

Common Names

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أنشوفة أُسبع طويل , Arabic , Saudi Arabia

Sardel vláknovitá , Czech , Czechia

Longfinger anchovy , English , Global

Niituim-antšoa , Estonian , Estonia

Ancios fil , French , Global

丝鳍小鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China

丝鳍小鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China

絲鰭小鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Manjuba , Portuguese (Brazilianism) , Brazil

Anchoa de hebra , Spanish , Spain

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoa

Species: Anchoa filifera (Fowler, 1915)

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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Western Atlantic: Antilles, Trinidad south to Brazil; also Venezuela to Panama and Honduras but not Gulf of Mexico. Meristic data tends to support three geographic units: South America (east Colombia, Venezuela south to Brazil); Antillean (and some islands off Venezuela); West Caribbean (Gulf of Honduras).

Biology

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A schooling species occurring in coastal waters. Trawled down to 25 m off Brazil, but equally taken in shore seines and recorded in salinities of 7.94-8.21 ppt in the Canal de Santa Cruz, Pernambuco, Brazil (Ref. 189).

Habitat

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brackish