Species: Engraulis mordax, California anchovy, Northern anchovy
pectoral short
Engraulis mordax Girard, 1854
California anchovy, Northern anchovy
Body elongated, rounded; snout long, sharply pointed, prominent; top jaw moderate, reaching almost to rear edge preoperculum, with pointed tip; tip of bottom jaw reaching under nostril; fine teeth on lower jaw; gill filament on body under gill cover large, reaching onto inner surface of gill cover; membrane under throat between gill covers not expanded at rear; gill rakers fine and slender, 37-45 lower rakers, third gill arch with rakers on rear surface; dorsal fin origin in mid-body; pectoral short, not reaching pelvics; anal fin short (iii, 13-20), origin under or just behind last dorsal ray.
Silver stripe along flank in young fish only.
Size: 25 cm.
Habitat: marine, coastal pelagic, usually within 30km of shore.
Depth: 0-310 m.
Temperate; British Colombia to the Gulf of California.
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- Salinity
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- Marine Only
- Marine
- Inshore/Offshore
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- Inshore
- Inshore Only
- Water Column Position
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- Surface
- Near Surface
- Water column only
- Habitat
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- Water column
- FishBase Habitat
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- Pelagic
- Feeding Group
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- Data
- Planktivore
- Diet
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- Pelagic fish larvae
- Phytoplankton
- Pelagic fish eggs
- Zooplankton
- Data
- Egg Type
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- Pelagic
- No data
- Pelagic larva
- Global Endemism
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- East Pacific endemic
- TEP non-endemic
- All species
- Regional Endemism
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- California province, primarily
- Continent
- Temperate Eastern Pacific, primarily
- Continent only
- All species
- Tropical Eastern Pacific (TEP) non-endemic
- Residency
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- Vagrant
- Climate Zone
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- North Temperate (Californian Province &/or Northern Gulf of California)
- Northern Subtropical (Cortez Province + Sinaloan Gap)
- IUCN Red List
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- Listed
- Least concern
- CITES
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- Not listed
- Depth Range Min
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- 0
- Depth Range Max
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- 310
- Length Max
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- 25
