Species: Anchoviella brevirostris, Snubnose Anchovy
Anchoviella brevirostris (Gunther, 1868)
Snubnose Anchovy
Body slender, elongate (depth 20-25% of SL), somewhat compressed; snout prominent, conical, projecting, very short (~1/2 eye diameter), projecting only slightly beyond lower jaw; rear of the mouth extends well behind the eye; lower jaw suspended below head; upper jaw rear bone bluntly rounded and short, ends ½ pupil diameter before preoperculum; lower gill rakers 23-27; gill branch under gill cover small (<eye); anal fin with short base, 15-17 branched rays, its origin behind center of body, ~under end of dorsal fin base.
Silver side stripe narrow at front, ¾ of eye diameter over anal fin.
Size: to 9 cm.
Coastal pelagic and in very low salinity estuaries.
Depth: 0-50 m.
The mouth of the Orinoco to Brazil.
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- Salinity
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- Brackish
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Mid Water
- Near Surface
- Surface
- Water column only
- Habitat
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- Water column
- Estuary
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Data
- Zooplankton
- Egg Type
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- Data
- Pelagic
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- All species
- Greater Caribbean non-endemic
- West Atlantic Endemic
- Regional Endemism
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- Also in Brazil
- Continent
- Continent only
- Extends South of GC
- GC non-endemic
- All species
- Residency
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- Resident
- Climate Zone
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- Equatorial (0-10N, Costa Rica / Venezuela)
- IUCN Red List
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- Least concern
- Listed
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Length Max
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- 9
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 50
