Pacific anchoveta
📖 Overview
Occurs inshore, principally over mud flats and forming quite large schools. Apparently not making long migrations along sandy or rocky areas. Juveniles feed principally on diatoms, also silico-flagellates, dinoflagellates and small crustaceans; adults also mainly on benthic diatoms. Used as tuna baitfish. Processed into fishmeal and oil.
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 17 - 24. Head large and deep. Snout short and pointed, about 2/3 eye diameter; maxilla moderate, tip blunt, just failing to reach lower jaw articulation; lower gill rakers fine and numerous, increasing in large fishes; no gill rakers on posterior face of third epibranchial. Branchiostegal rays 8, long and slender; branchiostegal membrane broad. Silver stripe disappearing at about 8-10 cm SL.: fusiform / normal; Cross section: compressed.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Pacific anchoveta is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
Diet information for Pacific anchoveta is currently being compiled.
🥚 Reproduction
Oviparous .
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic; non-migratory; depth range 0 - 32 m . Subtropical; 32°N - 4°S, 115°W - 78°W
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🌐 Names & Taxonomy
| Language | Common Names |
|---|---|
| 🇬🇧English | Anchovy · Pacific anchoveta · anchoveta |
| 🌍CES | sardel tichooceánská |
| 🇷🇺Russian | Тихоокеанский бокон · панамская анчовета |
| 🇪🇸Spanish | Anchoa del Pacífico · Carduma · Chuhueco ojito · Esmeraldas · Ojito · Sardina bocona · anchoveta bocona · Anchoveta |
🔍 Similar Species
🗺️ Global Occurrence Map
Occurrence records from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) — 19 records indexed .
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