Species: Anchovia clupeoides, Zabaleta anchova
Anchovia clupeoides (Swainson, 1839)
Zabaleta anchova
Fusiform, compressed; snout prominent, conical, projecting; rear of the mouth extends well behind the eye; lower jaw suspended below head; top jaw bone with broad, obliquely angular tip, reaching onto preoperculum; 100 or more fine slender lower gill rakers, none on upper part of 3rd arch; gill membrane not joined across under throat; dorsal fin origin at about midbody; anal fin base long, 28-35 rays, origin under dorsal fin origin.
Top of body blue-green; side silvery, silver stripe along side only in small fish (up to 5 cm); dorsal and tail fins yellow, with dark outer margins.
Reaches 30 cm.
Lives in coastal waters, estuaries and mangrove lagoons, over muddy bottoms; tolerates a wide range of salinities -freshwater to hypersaline lagoons.
Depth: 0-10 m?
The Gulf of Mexico to Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Hypersaline
- Freshwater
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Mid Water
- Surface
- Near Surface
- Habitat
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- Mangrove
- Water column
- Freshwater
- Estuary
- FishBase Habitat
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- Bentho-Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Planktivore
- Data
- Diet
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- Zooplankton
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- West Atlantic Endemic
- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Continent + Island (s)
- Continent
- Island (s)
- GC non-endemic
- All species
- Also in Brazil
- Extends South of GC
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- Tropical (10-23N, Nicaragua / Cuba)
- Subtropical (23-35N, Florida / Carolinas / Bermuda)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 30
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 10
