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Anchoviella guianensis (Eigenmann, 1912)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 14 - 18. Body fairly slender, moderately compressed. Snout short, a little over 1/2 eye diameter; maxilla moderate, tip bluntly rounded, failing to reach pre-operculum by 1/3 to 1/2 pupil diameter; gill cover canals of walkeri-type. Anal fin short, its origin a little behind base of last dorsal fin ray. A silver stripe along flank, widening to about 1/2 eye diameter over anal fin base (Ref. 189).

Common Names

  • Anchwa , Creole, French , French Guiana
  • Zaran , Creole, French , French Guiana
  • Sardel guyanská , Czech , Czechia
  • Guyana anchovy , English , Global
  • Sardine , English , UK
  • Striped anchovy , English , Antigua Barbuda
  • Striped anchovy , English , Bahamas
  • Striped anchovy , English , Barbados
  • Striped anchovy , English , Grenada
  • Striped anchovy , English , Jamaica
  • Striped anchovy , English , Martinique
  • Striped anchovy , English , Montserrat
  • Striped anchovy , English , Anguilla
  • Striped anchovy , English , St Lucia
  • Striped anchovy , English , St Vincent Gren.
  • Striped anchovy , English , Trinidad Tobago
  • Guajaana antšoviell , Estonian , Estonia
  • Anchois de Guyane , French , France
  • Anchois de Guyane , French , Global
  • Makélélou , Galibi , French Guiana
  • Langa-mina , Krio , Sierra Leone
  • 圭亚那小公鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 圭亞那小公魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Sardinha , Portuguese , Brazil
  • Anchoveta , Spanish , Peru
  • Anchovieta de río , Spanish , Spain
  • Camiguana , Spanish , Venezuela

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Clupeiformes

    Family: Engraulidae

    Genus: Anchoviella

    Species: Anchoviella guianensis (Eigenmann, 1912)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • South America: Orinoco system, as far up as Puerto Gaitan on Manacacias River in Colombia, certainly in delta; lower parts of rivers of Guyana, Surinam and French Guiana; lower part of Amazon, but lower limits not known; upper Amazon specimens are not this species.

    • Biology

    Occurs in estuaries and rivers, apparently tolerating only very low salinities. Breeds in December: a female of 5.8 cm SL having 2,000 eggs was caught from the Orinoco River mouth (Ref. 12225)..

    Habitat

    brackish