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Anchovia clupeoides (Swainson, 1839)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 25 - 32. Snout short and pointed, tip at about eye center; maxilla moderate, tip pointed and reaching onto pre-operculum (but not beyond), extending beyond second supra-maxilla; sub-operculum with angular hind margin, but not formed into a triangular projection; lower gill rakers increasing in large fishes. Anal fin origin below front few dorsal fin rays. Silver stripe disappearing with age (Ref. 189).

Common Names

  • Anchwa , Creole, French , French Guiana
  • Zaran , Creole, French , French Guiana
  • Sardel sleďovitá , Czech , Czechia
  • Anchovy , English , UK
  • Broadhead anchovy , English , Cuba
  • Grubber broadhead , English , Cuba
  • Zabaleta anchovy , English , Mexico
  • Zabaleta Anchovy , English , Cuba
  • Zabaleta anchovy , English , USA
  • Zabaleta anchovy , English , Global
  • Kariibi antšoovia , Estonian , Estonia
  • Anchois hachude , French , Global
  • Makélélou , Galibi , French Guiana
  • 似鯡多耙鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 似鲱多耙鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 黑多耙鯷 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 黑多耙鳀 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Anszowia karaibska , Polish , Poland
  • Boca torta , Portuguese , Brazil
  • Manjuba , Portuguese (Brazilianism) , Brazil
  • Arenque , Portuguese (French) , Brazil
  • Sardinha , Portuguese (Latin) , Brazil
  • Sardinha verdadeira , Portuguese (Latin) , Brazil
  • Sardinha-olhão , Portuguese (Latin) , Brazil
  • Pilombeta , Portuguese (Spanish) , Brazil
  • Anchoa , Spanish , Nicaragua
  • Anchoa bocona , Spanish , Spain
  • Anchoveta , Spanish , Colombia
  • Anchoveta sardina , Spanish , Mexico
  • Arenca , Spanish , Spain
  • Camiguana , Spanish , Spain
  • Hachudo , Spanish , Cuba
  • Piquete , Spanish , Dominican Rp
  • Sardina , Spanish , Spain
  • Sardina , Spanish , Venezuela
  • Sardina bocona , Spanish , Venezuela

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Clupeiformes

    Family: Engraulidae

    Genus: Anchovia

    Species: Anchovia clupeoides (Swainson, 1839)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Western Atlantic: in the Antilles, from Cuba and perhaps throughout; Guatemala south and east to Venezuela and Trinidad, south to just north of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).

    • Biology

    Found inshore forming quite large schools and also in estuaries, mangroves and other lagoons, penetrating into almost freshwater (salinities of 4.9-32.25 ppt in Santa Cruz Canal, Pernambuco, Brazil). Feeds by filtering plankton. No data on spawning.

    Habitat

    brackish