Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 15 - 18. Body fairly slender, somewhat compressed. Snout very short, about 1/2 eye diameter; maxilla very short, tip bluntly rounded, reaching only a little beyond hind border of eye; gill cover canal pattern not recorded. Anal fin fairly short, its origin below about middle of dorsal fin base.

Common Names

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Sardel venezuelská , Czech , Czechia

Manamo anchovy , English , Global

Mánamo antšoviell , Estonian , Estonia

麥納小公魚 , Mandarin Chinese , China

麦纳小公鱼 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Camiguana , Spanish , Venezuela

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoviella

Species: Anchoviella manamensis Cervigón, 1982

Climate Zone

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Tropical

Location

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South America: Orinoco delta, Venezuela; also Guyana and Surinam.

Biology

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Occurs in large schools together with juvenile Anchovia surinamensis and slightly larger juvenile Lycengraulis batesii, which appear to feed on the Anchoviella. Mature by about 2 cm SL; a female of 2.5 cm had 157 large eggs in the ovary. This is evidently a progenetic species (adult at juvenile stage).

Habitat

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brackish