Description

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Dorsal spines (total): 0; Dorsal soft rays (total): 13 - 21; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 12 - 23. Body slender; head short and wide; belly rounded, with 23 to 31 scutes. Pectoral fin tips rounded. Last 2 anal fin rays enlarged; Pterotic bulla absent. No notch at the center of the upper jaw. Females slightly larger than males.

Common Names

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Kilka sardelovitá , Czech , Czechia

Ansjosbrisling , Danish , Denmark

Anchovy kilka , English , Russia

Anchovy sprat , English , Global

Anchovy-like tyulka , English , Russia

Anšoovistülka , Estonian , Estonia

鯷狀棱鯡 , Mandarin Chinese , China

鳀状棱鲱 , Mandarin Chinese , China

Kilka-e-anchovi , Persian , Iran

Kilka-ye Anchovy , Persian , Iran

Rizeh Keraye , Persian , Iran

Sardelka , Polish , Poland

Anchousovidnaya tyul'ka , Russian , Russia

Taxonomic Hierarchy

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Kingdom: Animalia

Phylum: Chordata

Class: Teleostei

Order: Clupeiformes

Family: Ehiravidae

Genus: Clupeonella

Species: Clupeonella engrauliformis (Borodin, 1904)

Climate Zone

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Temperate

Location

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Former USSR and Asia: central and southern parts of the Caspian Sea.

Biology

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Occurs mainly in the open sea, occasionally approaching the shore and sometimes forming large schools. Rises to the surface in the spring months, but descending to as much as 78 m in late summer (apparently rising again in October-November, but descending once more in winter). Breeds intermittently from end of April to November, mainly in July, in the open sea.

Habitat

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pelagic

Conservation Status

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Endangered

Threat to Humans

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Harmless