Description

Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 28 - 29. Snout fairly long, 4 times in head but less than eye diameter; maxilla short, tip nearly square, not quite reaching to articulation of lower jaw; lower gill rakers (not counted), about equal to eye diameter. Pectoral fin long, reaching halfway along pelvic fin; anal fin long, its origin below middle of dorsal fin base. An indistinct silver stripe along flank.

Common Names

No common names available.

Taxonomic Hierarchy

Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Engraulidae

Genus: Anchoviella

Species: Anchoviella nattereri (Steindachner, 1879)

Climate Zone

Location

Biology

Presumably riverine or estuarine. More material and data needed.

Habitat

pelagic