Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner 1863)
- 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
- Anchovia
- species
- Anchovia macrolepidota
description
Bigscale Anchovy. To 25 cm (9.8 in) TL (Yáñez-Arancibia 1978). Laguna San Ignacio, southern Baja California (Dannemann and De La Cruz-Agüero 1993) to northern Gulf of California (Whitehead and Rodríguez-Sánchez in Fischer et al. 1995) to Zorritos, Peru (Chirichigno and Vélez 1998). Marine and brackish waters (Romero-Berny et al. 2018); depth: surface to perhaps 18 m (59 ft) (Personal communication: Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Fish Collection, Los Angeles, California).
Name
- Homonyms
- Anchovia macrolepidota (Kner 1863)