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Engraulidae
bigeye anchovy
Anchoa lamprotaenia
Schooling anchovy with an iridescent head
- Tropical
- Regional distribution
- Marine fish
- Atlantic Ocean
- Central America and the Caribbean
- North America
- South America
- Elongated
- Small
- Tropical fish
Tropical
Regional distribution
Marine fish
Elongated
Smallbigeye anchovy is a marine fish from Western Central Atlantic. It inhabits marine waters. The largest recorded length is 12.2 cm.
- Class
- Teleosts
- Order
- Herrings
- Family
- Engraulidae
- Genus
- Anchoa
- Maximum length
- 12.2 cm
- Water
- Marine
- Body shape
- elongated
- Distribution
- Western Central Atlantic: southern Florida (USA), Cuba, Bahamas, Greater and Lesser Antilles, and Yucatan, Mexico to Venezuela; not in Gulf of Mexico; Trinidad south to Guianas; possibly Brazil.
- Conservation status
- LCLeast Concern
Class
Family
Conservation status
