Engraulis japonicus Temminck & Schlegel 1846
- Dataset
- Checklist of marine and estuarine fishes from the Alaska-Yukon Border, Beaufort Sea, to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Rank
- SPECIES
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Chordata
- class
- Actinopterygii
- order
- Clupeiformes
- family
- Engraulidae
- genus
- Engraulis
- species
- Engraulis japonicus
description
Japanese Anchovy. To about 16 cm (6.3 in) SL (Lindberg and Legeza 1965). western Pacific Ocean north to south-eastern Kamchatka; one record from Alaska, south of western Aleutian Islands (Mecklenburg et al. 2002). Near surface, epipelagic and coastal, but also occurring to over 1,000 km (620 miles) from shore; depth: to 150 m (495 ft) (Mecklenburg et al. 2002).