Key anchovy
📖 Overview
Overview information for Key anchovy is currently being compiled by our editorial team.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 21 - 26. Body somewhat compressed and slender. Snout less than eye diameter; maxilla long, tip pointed, reaching almost to gill opening; gill cover canals of walkeri-type. Anal fin moderately long, its origin below about midpoint of dorsal fin base. A silver stripe along flank, a little less than eye diameter . Melanophores on underside of snout do not reach premaxillae, leaving an unpigmented area .: elongated; Cross section: oval.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Key anchovy is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Key anchovy is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Spawn in school .
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; pelagic-oceanic; oceanodromous . Subtropical; 28°N - 10°N, 90°W - 60°W Central Atlantic: Florida Keys, Cuba, Bahamas, Antilles, Los Roques Archipelago off Venezuela; from Yucatan, Mexico possibly to western Venezuela; not in Gulf of Mexico.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Key anchovy |
| 🌍CES | sardel floridská |
| 🇫🇷French | Anchois de Floride |
| 🇵🇹Portuguese | Anchova-da-Flórida |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Широкополосая анчоа |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | anchoa de cayo · manjúa de los cayos |
Scientific Synonyms
| Scientific Name | Author | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchovia cayorum | Fowler | 1906 | Synonym |
| Anchovia choerostoma cayorum | Fowler | 1906 | Synonym |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) - 7 records indexed .
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