Ramcarat grenadier anchovy
📖 Overview
A schooling species found in coastal waters, but also entering estuaries (although its tolerance to salinities seems not to have been recorded).
🔬 Taxonomy
🐟 Physical Description
Dorsal spines (total): 0; Anal spines: 0; Anal soft rays: 80. Body tapering, belly rounded before pelvic fins, with 6 + 10 or 11 = 15 or 16 keeled scutes from just behind pectoral fin base to anus. Maxilla short, not reaching to edge of gill cover. Pectoral fin with 6 long filaments; the branched fin rays much shorter than those of pelvic fin.: elongated; Cross section: compressed.
🌀 Behaviour
Behavioural data for Ramcarat grenadier anchovy is currently being reviewed.
🦐 Diet
🥚 Reproduction
Spawn in school .
🌍 Habitat & Distribution
Marine; brackish; pelagic-neritic; amphidromous . Tropical; 25°N - 13°N, 87°E - 97°E south of Rangoon.
🌿 Ecology
📐 Morphometrics
🌡️ Water Parameters & Tolerance
🛡️ Conservation Assessment
📊 Population Risk & Fisheries
🔍 Similar Species
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