Anchoa ischana (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 ischana
description
Gulf of California Slender Anchovy, Sharpnose Anchovy, or Slender Anchovy. To 17 cm (6.7 in) TL (Flores-Ortega et al. 2016). As far northward as Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California (Barjau-González 2003), and throughout Gulf of California (Whitehead et al. 1988) to northern Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998), including Islas Galápagos (Grove and Lavenberg 1997). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2018); depth: as shallow as 1 m (3 ft) to perhaps 27 m (90 ft) (min.: González-Acosta et al. 1999; max.: Personal communication: Scripps Institution of Oceanography Fish Collection, La Jolla, California).