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Anchoviella lepidentostole (Fowler, 1911)

Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 14 - 17; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 19 - 26. Body moderately elongate and compressed (Ref. 189). Snout short, about 2/3 eye diameter; maxilla relatively long, tip bluntly rounded, reaching to pre-operculum; gill cover canals of walkeri-type (Ref. 189). Anal fin fairly long, its origin below about middle of dorsal fin base. A broad silver stripe along flank, equal or greater than eye diameter below dorsal fin (Ref. 189).

Common Names

  • أنشوفة دَسِيمة , Arabic , Saudi Arabia
  • Anchwa , Creole, French , French Guiana
  • Zaran , Creole, French , French Guiana
  • Sardel hladká , Czech , Czechia
  • Broadband anchovy , English , Global
  • Laitriip-antšoviell , Estonian , Estonia
  • Anchois gras , French , Global
  • Makélélou , Galibi , French Guiana
  • Gin-obi-iwashi , Japanese , Japan
  • 宽带小公鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 宽带小公鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • 寬帶小公魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China
  • Manjuba , Portuguese , Brazil
  • Sardinha , Portuguese , Brazil
  • Don-don , Portuguese (Brazilianism) , Brazil
  • Manjubinha , Portuguese (Brazilianism) , Brazil
  • Sardinha selvagem , Portuguese (Latin) , Brazil
  • Anchoa ñata , Spanish , Spain
  • Camiguana , Spanish , Venezuela

    • Taxonomic Hierarchy

    Kingdom: Animalia

    Phylum: Chordata

    Class: Teleostei

    Order: Clupeiformes

    Family: Engraulidae

    Genus: Anchoviella

    Species: Anchoviella lepidentostole (Fowler, 1911)

    Climate Zone

  • Tropical

    • Location

  • Western Atlantic: Orinoco delta in Venezuela south to Ponta da Cotinga, Paraná coast of Brazil.

    • Biology

    A schooling species found inshore. Most likely anadromous, entering estuaries and freshwater. Feeds on crustacean larvae or small invertebrates (Ref. 12225). Female maximum length from Ref. 71685.

    Habitat

    freshwater