Species: Lycengraulis limnichthys, Schultz's Sabretooth-anchovy

gill rakers 20-23 inferior, 37-42 total
Lycengraulis limnichthys Schultz, 1949
Schultz's Sabretooth-anchovy
Relatively slender (depth = 21-23% of SL); snout prominent, conical, projecting, short and blunt; rear of the mouth extends well behind the eye; lower jaw suspended below head; upper jaw moderately long, reaching well beyond rear margin of eye, but not reaching rear margin of opercle, its rear tip rounded; both jaws with large, well spaced teeth, those on lower jaw larger; lower jaw with small canine-like teeth; gill rakers: 20-23 lower, 37-42 total; anal fin with long base, 24-27 rays, origin under midpoint of dorsal fin; insertion of pelvic fin nearer pectoral fin base than anal fin origin.
Blue on back, silvery white below; several small black dots on upper gill cover; a silver midlateral stripe present on smaller fish.
Size: to 19 cm.
A primarily freshwater species that enters brackish water.
Depth: 0-10 m?
Colombia to the Gulf of Venezuela.

High Resolution Map Download
- Salinity
-
- Brackish
- Freshwater
- Non Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
-
- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
-
- Mid Water
- Near Surface
- Surface
- Water column only
- Habitat
-
- Water column
- Estuary
- Freshwater
- FishBase Habitat
-
- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
-
- Carnivore
- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
-
- Data
- Zooplankton
- Bony fishes
- Insects
- Egg Type
-
- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
-
- All species
- Greater Caribbean endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
-
- Caribbean endemic
- Continent
- Continent only
- GC endemic
- All species
- Residency
-
- Resident
- Climate Zone
-
- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
-
- Data deficient
- Listed
- CITES
-
- Not listed
- Length Max
-
- 19
- Depth Range Min
-
- 0
- Depth Range Max
-
- 10