Anchoa curta (Jordan & Gilbert 1882)
- 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
- Anchoa
- species
- Anchoa curta
description
Short Anchovy. To 8.9 cm (3.5 in) TL (Yáñez-Arancibia 1978). Punta Abreojos, southern Baja California (Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California) to Puerto Pizarro, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including lower half of Gulf of California (Robertson and Allen 2002). Pelagic, primarily nearshore and estuaries and occasionally entering fresh water (Whitehead et al. 1988); depth: to 10 m (33 ft) (Robertson and Allen 2002).
Name
- Homonyms
- Anchoa curta (Jordan & Gilbert 1882)