Anchoviella perfasciata
Flat Anchovy
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Actinopterygii (Ray-finned Fishes)
Clupeiformes (Herrings, Anchovies and Sardines)
Engraulidae (Anchovies)
Anchoviella
Anchoviella perfasciata (Flat Anchovy)
Description
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Characters
Slender and strongly compressed body; pointed, moderately short snout; deeply forked caudal fin; body depth 15% to 18% and head length 23% to 26% of SL; snout length about three-fourths eye diameter; maxilla short, extending slightly beyond supramaxilla and falling short of preoperculum by distance equal to one-half pupil diameter, and bluntly tipped; jaw teeth small; suborbital bone slightly longer than eye diameter; pseudobranch shorter than eye diameter and not extending posteriorly onto operculum; gill rakers on lower limb of first gill arch slender and numbering 24 to 30; upper limb of third gill arch with gill rakers; pectoral fin falling short of pelvic fin base by distance equal to eye diameter; dorsal fin with 12 to 15 rays, originating midway between caudal fin base and tip of snout; pelvic fin inserting about equidistant between origin of anal fin and pectoral fin base; anal fin originating under or slightly posterior to base of last dorsal fin ray and having 13 to 18 rays; scales deciduous and in 40 to 44 transverse rows; vertebrae numbering 42 to 44
Translucent with silver stripe on flank; stripe width about three-fourths eye diameter and having dark dorsal margin
Distribution
Western North Atlantic from Beaufort, North Carolina, to southern Florida, and the northern Gulf of Mexico
Rare to absent west of Louisiana in the Gulf of Mexico
Habitat Associations
Coastal, full-salinity waters
Biology
Maximum known size is 100 mm TL
Occurs in coastal waters, apparently not entering brackish water. Rare in Florida shore seine collections, but 'in great numbers under a night light', perhaps because it may stay some distance from the shore in daytime.
Reproductive mode: dioecism; fertilization: external; nonguarders (open water/substratum egg scatterers); parental care: none. Spawn in school (Ref. 205).
IUCN Red List Status: Least Concern (LC), assessed 2012-08-24. Resilience: High (Preliminary K or Fecundity.).
Phylogeny and Morphologically Similar Fishes
Distinguished from other species of the family by the combination of characters described
Commercial or Environmental Importance
Fisheries: subsistence fisheries.
References
Longley and Hildebrand 1941
Hildebrand 1963c
Hoese and Moore 1977
C. R. Robins et al. 1986
Whitehead et al. 1988
Whitehead, P.J.P., G.J. Nelson and T. Wongratana (1988) FAO Species Catalogue. Vol. 7. Clupeoid fishes of the world (Suborder Clupeoidei). An annotated and illustrated catalogue of the herrings, sardines, pilchards, sprats, shads, anchovies and wolf-herrings. FAO Fish. Synop. 125(7/2):305-579. Rome: FAO.
Breder, C.M. and D.E. Rosen (1966) Modes of reproduction in fishes. T.F.H. Publications, Neptune City, New Jersey. 941 p.
Cervigón, F., R. Cipriani, W. Fischer, L. Garibaldi, M. Hendrickx, A.J. Lemus, R. Márquez, J.M. Poutiers, G. Robaina and B. Rodriguez (1992) Fichas FAO de identificación de especies para los fines de la pesca. Guía de campo de las especies comerciales marinas y de aquas salobres de la costa septentrional de Sur América. FAO, Rome. 513 p. Preparado con el financiamento de la Comisión de Comunidades Europeas y de NORAD.
Robins, C.R. and G.C. Ray (1986) A field guide to Atlantic coast fishes of North America. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, U.S.A. 354 p.
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